The news that non-whites now make up nearly half of Britain’s jail population will come as no surprise to those who know and understand the concept of race and its implications for any civilized society—but less well known are the real and direct financial costs this burden brings.
In the UK it is estimated that each new prison place costs £119,000 and that the annual average cost for each prisoner exceeds £40,000.
This figure is important in the light of news that at least 20% of the U.K.’s prison population are non-Muslim, and at 42 percent are “from black and minority ethnic communities.”
According to the figures, one in five males (21 per cent) in young offender institutions identified themselves as Muslim in 2011/12, compared with 13 per cent in 2009/10 and 16 per cent in 2010/11, the annual review of children and young people in custody showed.
The proportion of youth offenders in custody from black and minority ethnic communities also rose slightly to 42 per cent, from 39 per cent in 2010/11, according to the report by the chief inspector of prisons.
Meanwhile, almost a third of the young people surveyed (30 per cent) said they had previously been “looked after” by a local authority.
Nick Hardwick, the chief inspector of prisons, said the figure was ‘depressingly high’ and ‘reflected the over-representation of children from care in almost every indicator of disadvantage for decades’.
The study was based on the experience of 926 young men in eight male establishments and 25 young women in three female establishments in which they were held from April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012.
Mr Hardwick said: ‘It might have been expected that reductions in the number of young people held and changes to the custodial estate would have led to changes of similar significance to young people’s perceptions of their experience in custody.
‘In fact, it is striking how little has changed and that may cast doubt on the assumption that, as the population decreased, it would include a greater concentration of young people with a serious offence background and major problems.
Andrew Neilson, Director of Campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: “The increase in the proportion of boys in custody who describe themselves as Muslim mirrors a trend also seen in the adult prison population. It only emphasises the need for the government to carry out detailed research into why this trend is happening.”
It is the latter comment which is the most interesting—and possibly the most deluded. There is no need for “detailed research” to understand why society is behaving in this fashion. It is becoming like the Third World because the Third World is moving here. What could be simpler and more obvious?
The financial burden which this Third World crime wave has brought is enormous. The current prisons budget is some £8.3 billion per year—but that is just an estimate, because the government has admitted that it does not really know how much the prison serves costs.
In 2011, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee said that the Ministry of Justice does not “fully understand” the costs of all its prisons.
The committee said that the Ministry lacked a “consistent approach” to overseeing its finances, and that by the end of 2010 it only fully understood costs in six out of 10 prisons.
Such a lack of insight into why similar prisons were spending differently meant the department could make “ill-informed” cuts to services, said the report.
On fines and penalties, the committee found that in the last financial year, some £1.5bn was outstanding after six months.
As of 10 December 2010, some 85,000 prisoners were in British jails. At an average of £40,000 per prisoner, this amounts to a whopping £34,000,000,000 or £34 billion. Incredible……
Enlightened Patriot
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`At an average of £40,000 per prisoner’ No wonder bent judges, no doubt under instruction from their masters, are doing all they can to keep criminal out of jail or to release them early.