Thousands of foreign convicts will be sent home: Cameron vows to stop overseas inmates clogging jails

Thousands of foreign prisoners are to be sent back to serve their sentences in their own countries.
David Cameron, who will spearhead the cost-cutting drive, plans to tear up agreements that mean convicts cannot be returned home without their consent.
As the number of foreign inmates in Britain’s jails approaches one in seven, the Prime Minister wants them sent back to serve prison terms in their countries of origin even if they insist they do not want to go, the Daily Mail has learned.
But the initiative could run into problems because convicts – supported by lawyers – may try to use human rights laws to stay in this country.
And in the future, foreigners found guilty of offences involving official documents – including possessing a fake passport or destroying a passport – may be given ‘conditional cautions’ rather than jail sentences, barring them from returning to the UK.
They would be thrown out of the country so they do not end up in prison here in the first place.