With a Prisoner Repatriation Law expected to receive Privy Council assent this month, Home Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand wants to change the rules so that prisoners serving sentences handed down by Jersey courts follow the rules in the country in which they are serving.
And because Jersey’s early-release programme becomes effective two-thirds of the way through a prison sentence – not half-way through, as in the UK and many other countries – a transfer would often mean a shorter sentence. For UK prisoners serving a six-year sentence, for example, the difference would be a year off their jail term.
Read the full story in Wednesday’s JEP
