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UK £25M to Build Jamaican Prison
Vol 10; No. 18
‘Community Lifestyle Newspaper’
By Kimmy Blair Street Hype Writer KINGSTON, JAMAICA: he United Kingdom’s (Britain) plan to allocate £25 million to help build a prison in Jamaica has sparked widespread debate over long-term funding for the facility Jamaican where prisoners prosecuted in the U.K. will spend their sentences. Prime Minister David Cameron announced the plan during an official visit to Jamaica on Sept. 29. He said the funding will come from the UK’s foreign aid budget and that the British government will pay for about 40 percent of the lockup, which will be big enough to fit 1,500 inmates. Jamaica’s Parliamentary Opposition is insisting on the release of details of the proposed prisoner transfer deal between Jamaica and Britain. Critics of the plan argue that its construction will ultimately place a severe strain on the country's finances, especially because the some 300 prisoners coming back to Jamaica would cost Jamaican taxpayers a whopping $480 million a year. Currently, Britain is unable to deport Jamaican prisoners from the UK because the island’s colonial-era maximum-security prisons do not meet international human right standards. On the whole, the two outdated lock-ups have long exceeded their accommodation capacity for the island’s growing prison population of over 4,000. “It is absolutely right that foreign criminals who break our laws are properly punished but this shouldn’t be at the expense of the hardworking British taxpayer,” Cameron said in a statement. “And it will help Jamaica, by helping to provide a new prison -- strengthening their criminal justice system.”
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THINKING OF GOING NATURAL? Jamaica's Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller (l) shakes hands with her British counterpart David Cameron at the Jamaica House in Kingston, Jamaica WI.
He added that the agreement is very important because it will “mean Jamaican criminals are sent back home to serve their sentences, saving the British taxpayer millions of pounds, but still ensuring justice is done." It's estimated that there are over 600 Jamaican prisoners in the UK, the majority serving violent or drug-related offenses. British government claims the new prison will save taxpayers £10 million a year when it becomes operational in 2020.
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Cameron also used his visit to Jamaica to announce a further £300 million in funding for other infrastructure projects in the Caribbean, including roads, bridges and ports. Cameron's visit to Jamaica had been overshadowed by calls from Jamaican MPs and campaigners for Britain to pay reparations for slavery. Cameron has ruled out the possibility of reparations, saying that it was "not the right approach."
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