Britain has two jails for foreign inmates only

Britain has two jails for foreign inmates only

Two jails in England and Wales are entirely populated by foreign nationals, it has emerged.

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Foreign inmates make up 15 per cent of the UK's prison population

In two other jails, the largest proportion of inmates is from overseas.

The all-foreign jails are Bullwood Hall, in Hockley, Essex, which holds 154 prisoners, and Canterbury, with 284 foreign nationals serving less than four years.

Foreign criminals make up a majority of the inmates in the Verne in Dorset and Morton Hall, Lincs.

In 16 further jails, foreign prisoners make up at least a quarter of the population.