Hundreds of Nigerian criminals will be sent home to serve out prison sentences under a deal set to be struck by ministers within weeks. Talks are continuing into reaching a compulsory prisoner transfer agreement, which could see more than half of the 500 criminals from Nigeria currently in UK jails repatriated. Prisons minister Jeremy Wright told MailOnline how 'more foreign prisoners must serve their sentences in their own countries'. Deportation: Ministers want to send hundreds of Nigerian criminals to serve out their sentence at home to cut the cost for British taxpayers Ministers have been ordered to step up efforts to end the scandal of more than one in eight prisoners being from overseas.
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A total of 534 Nigerian nationals are serving sentences in British prisons
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Britain has promised £1million to improve Nigeria's crumbling jails
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Minister Jeremy Wright says prisoner transfer deal is close to being sealed
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David Cameron promised to slash the number of foreign inmates
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