Foreign Criminals to Be Deported and Banned Instead of Jailed to Free Up Prison Spaces

Lower-level foreign offenders will be expelled and banned from reentering the UK rather than jailed, in plans that will free up prison spaces, the justice secretary announced. Drug dealers, shoplifters, and thieves will be handed “conditional cautions” instead of facing convictions in new plans announced by Justice Secretary Alex Chalk on Sunday. The measures would reduce the number of prisoners who have been charged and are in custody in Britain’s prison system. Mr. Chalk told The Telegraph during a visit to HMP Liverpool, “There is a power that exists in certain lower-level cases, that in place of prosecution, the Home Office deports someone.”...