Taxpayers in the United Kingdom are to foot the bill to revamp jails in Nigeria and Jamaica so that the convicts in British prisons can be deported without breaching their human rights, The Daily Mail reported on Thursday. This is the latest move by the UK’s coalition government to persuade foreign convicts to serve their sentences at home. It was revealed that a project is currently going in Nigeria which supports the provision of “human rights training for prison officers” while another project will construct new facilities at a women’s prison in Lagos, to reduce overcrowding. The report revealed that UK government has spent more than £420m on foreign inmates as at March 2012. Punch newspaper reports contributed to this news content.
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