Saturday, August 19, 2006

How drugs harm us / Telegraph, 19 Aug 2006

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"The steep rise in foreign prisoners is largely the consequence of Britons' apparently insatiable appetite for drugs. Forty per cent of foreign male prisoners and 80 per cent of females are serving sentences for drug offences, mainly trafficking. Most foreigners in British jails are from Commonwealth countries: let us invoke the relationship to negotiate deals whereby, for instance, Jamaicans convicted of crime in Britain serve their sentences in Jamaica."