The government intends to look 'at the Norwegian example and explore renting overseas capacity'.
The government plans to rent jail space from foreign countries in new plans to help the UK’s overstretched prison system.conference that further measures need to be taken to ensure ‘dangerous criminals continue to see the inside of a prison cell’.
‘Alongside our extra 20,000 prison places programme, refurbishment of old prisons and rapid deployment cells, renting prison places in other countries will ensure that we always have the space to keep the public safe from the most dangerous offenders.’ Mr Chalk hopes to bring forward legislation as soon as parliamentary time allows, but revealed no further details about how this would work.
Justice secretary Alex Chalk used his keynote speech at the Conservative Party conference to announce the plans
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