A Magical Mystery Tour of UK Prisons, By Richard Miller (Europe)

Albania has the rate of 232.3 UK prisoners per 10,00 people. One in 50 Albanian migrants end up in a UK jail, and 1,200 Albanians have been jailed from a migrant population of almost 53,000 living in the UK without UK citizenship. Then, next on the prison pop charts are Kosovans, with an imprisonment rate of 150.23 per 10,000, Vietnamese (148.88), Algerians (124.41), Jamaicans (110.77), Eritreans (110.7), Iraqis (104.43) and Somalis (100.37).

So why are the diverse enriching UK prisons? One view that I will oppose is Migrants' Rights Network CEO Fizza Qureshi, who said: "To those of us who have been working in both migrant justice and racial justice, these statistics are upsetting but not surprising.

"Immigration systems and borders are explicitly designed to prevent Black and Brown people from coming to the UK and criminalise them as a result, as evidenced in both our own research and confirmed by a recent Government report into the origins of the Windrush scandal.

"Furthermore, the article in the Telegraph caveats the statistics with the omission that some may have been granted citizenship but not yet have received a passport, which begs the question at what point is someone no longer seen as a migrant, but rather as British.

"The criminal justice system, policing and immigration systems are infamously racist and disproportionately impact racialised people. Linking the nationality, ethnicity and immigration status with crime is nothing more than dog-whistle politics and an old form of scapegoating, which is incredibly irresponsible in the aftermath of this summer's racist riots."

Another view is that these people are not innocent, but have been before a court, and found guilty. So, they are criminals, and the immigration system, rather than being "racist" is the exact opposite, allowing in such people in the first place. If immigration systems are designed to prevent the diverse from coming, then they are failing badly as that is who is coming. Of course, for the immigration/multicult lobbies across the West, anything short of 100 percent diverse is unacceptable. And, no diverse should be in jail, only White racists, which are all Whites of course, as whiteness is the original multicult sin.

The lesson Whites never seem to learn, is give an inch and lose a light year. Perhaps after the coming fall of the West, the survivors may reflect upon this and next time not repeat the same mistake.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1957597/migrants-in-uk-prisons-nationalities-albania

"Albania's rate of 232.33 prisoners per 10,000 people in the UK - or one in 50 - was found to be the highest by this metric, new analysis claims.

New analysis of official data suggests as much as one in 50 Albanian migrants to the UK are in prison, amid an overcrowding crisis in British jails.

Telegraph research using Home Office figures suggests more than 1,200 Albanians have been jailed from a migrant population of almost 53,000 living in the UK without UK citizenship.

The outlet put together a table of more than 130 nationalities ranked by the number of prisoners per 10,000 of the population in the UK from their nations.

The Balkan country's 232.33 prisoners per 10,000 people - or one in 50 - was found to be the highest by this metric, according to the bombshell data.

This was followed by Kosovans, with an imprisonment rate of 150.23 per 10,000, Vietnamese (148.88), Algerians (124.41), Jamaicans (110.77), Eritreans (110.7), Iraqis (104.43) and Somalis (100.37).

The least likely to be put behind bars were Germans, at 4.68 per 10,000 (one in 2,000). This was followed by people from Italy (4.96), India (6.24), Greece (6.36), US (7.27), Sri Lanka (8.17), France (8.64) and China (9.39).

The overall imprisonment rate of foreign nationals is 27 per cent higher than it is among British citizens, with 18.2 inmates per 10,000 migrants compared with 14 per 10,000 for Brits.

The league table was compiled using Ministry of Justice data, which shows there are 10,435 foreign nationals in jails in England and Wales and 76,866 British nationals. Countries that had fewer than 20 people in British jails weren't included because of the limited sample size.

They then cross-referenced it with ONS 2021 census data, from which they extracted the number of foreign nationals who don't have a UK passport from each country.

However, some foreign nationals could have been granted citizenship but had not applied for a passport. It also doesn't take into account illegal migrants.

The 232.33 per 10,000 imprisonment rate for Albanians was calculated based on the census data which showed 68,672 foreign-born Albanians lived in the UK. The 15,860 without a UK passport were excluded leaving around 52,000. With the figures suggesting 1,227 were in jail, it amounts to around two per cent of Albanians.

There are 300 more Albanians in prison than when the census was conducted three years ago, meaning the proportion could be higher than their estimates.

Prison population statistics are logged by nationality rather than where inmates were born. The census asked individuals where they were born and the passports they had, so populations born abroad were excluded if they held a UK passport.

A government spokesman said: "This Government is committed to delivering justice for victims and safer streets for our communities.

"Foreign nationals who commit crime should be in no doubt that the law will be enforced and, where appropriate, we will pursue their deportation."

Responding to the report, Migrants' Rights Network CEO Fizza Qureshi, said: "To those of us who have been working in both migrant justice and racial justice, these statistics are upsetting but not surprising.

"Immigration systems and borders are explicitly designed to prevent Black and Brown people from coming to the UK and criminalise them as a result, as evidenced in both our own research and confirmed by a recent Government report into the origins of the Windrush scandal.

"Furthermore, the article in the Telegraph caveats the statistics with the omission that some may have been granted citizenship but not yet have received a passport, which begs the question at what point is someone no longer seen as a migrant, but rather as British.

"The criminal justice system, policing and immigration systems are infamously racist and disproportionately impact racialised people. Linking the nationality, ethnicity and immigration status with crime is nothing more than dog-whistle politics and an old form of scapegoating, which is incredibly irresponsible in the aftermath of this summer's racist riots," she added.