United Kingdom: Reform UK Proposes Sending Foreign Prisoners Abroad to End Early Release Scheme

The party also plans to create additional capacity in the system by building 'Nightingale' prisons. Farage said his party was exploring options with third countries over renting prison spaces, including El Salvador, which he said Reform chairman Lee Anderson would visit soon for initial talks. Reform said removing foreign nationals from the prison estate, as well as building emergency 'Nightingale' prisons, would enable changes to be made to sentencing laws so that serious criminals serve out their full terms.

Labour said Reform had 'no serious answers to the Tory prisons crisis and would lead the system to collapse'. Under Reform's plans, foreign criminals handed non-custodial sentences would be deported to their country of origin. Those with custodial sentences would serve all of it out in their home country, or a third country offering rented prison spaces if they refuse to take them.