Record Numbers of Foreign Sex Offenders Being Held in English Prisons.
Getty ImagesThe number of foreign national sex offenders in prisons is rising three times faster than UK-national offenders, with the number of migrant criminals inside for some crimes having doubled in a decade.
Demands for greater transparency about migrant crime has seen the UK government release new data on foreigners in the prison system, lifting the lid not only on the huge cost to the taxpayer of incarcerating criminals with no reason to be in the country, but how trends are accelerating.
There are now a record number of foreign sex offenders and violent criminals in jails in England and Wales, the data shows, with the number of migrant sex criminals up ten per cent in 12 months, rising at a rate three times faster than British offenders. In all, the number of foreign sex criminals in those jails has soared by 26.6 per cent in the past decade since 2015 and the number of Syrian criminals in prison is up 46 per cent in just one year, data analysis by The Times asserts.The figures are even more astounding for some other crimes. The number of violent migrant offenders in English and Welsh prisons is at its highest level now ever, with the foreign prisoners held for violence against the person up 51 per cent, public order offences up 95 per cent, and weapon possession a massive 140 per cent since 2015.Foreign offenders are twice as likely to be in prison for drug offences than Britons. Indeed, there are some major differentials between native and migrant criminals revealed, with migrants in prison for robbery up almost eight per cent in the past year.
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