UK prisoners may be sent home

Home Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand says that he is committed to a prisoner repatriation deal and has been working on it for the last 12 months.

And he revealed that Home Affairs chief officer Steven Austin-Vautier will go to the UK this week to discuss a deal that could see non-Jersey prisoners transferred from La Moye to prisons in their countries of origin.

‘We are most definitely pursuing this as a matter of high priority,’ said Senator Le Marquand. ‘But it is the mechanism that is causing the problem. We need to find out whether we need to amend own law or whether we can just enter into a treaty.’

See Monday’s JEP for full story.