Locked up: Britain is spending £35million jailing Polish nationals so the country has time to build new prisons (library image) Britain is spending £35million every year locking up Poles who should be in jail in their own country – because its prisons are full. There are almost 900 Polish convicts in our packed prisons – the largest foreign contingent, according to the Ministry of Justice. But under a deal agreed by the last Labour government, none will have to serve their sentences back home until at least December 2016 to give Poland time to build new jails. The deal is one of a string of similar arrangements between Britain and the rest of the EU for so-called compulsory prisoner transfer agreements.
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Polish are the largest foreign contingent in our prisons, the MOJ said
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None will have to serve their sentences back home until December 2016
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Deal agreed by Labour to give Poland time to build new jails
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Prison places cost around £40,000 every year
The number of Polish inmates has rocketed since the country joined the @placeholder in 2004.