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foreign criminals cost 630 million year british jails deportation
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- Foreign criminals in UK prisons cost taxpayers nearly £630 million annually.
- Foreign nationals make up about 12% of the prison population (10,487 out of 87,342 inmates).
- Cost per inmate is approximately £60,018 per year, a 77% increase over the past decade.
- Albanians are the largest group of foreign prisoners, followed by Irish, Polish, Romanian, and Indian nationals.
- UK government reforms allow deportation after serving 30% of sentence; over 8,700 deportations since July 2024.