Amnesty International says Farage putting ‘hate and inhumanity’ over leadership with El Salvador prison plan – as it happened
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A spokesperson for the human rights group likened the proposal to ‘financial brutality with British taxpayers’ money’
Farage and Yusuf are now taking questions.
Q: [From Jack Fenwick from the BBC] Are there other countries where you might send foreign offenders? And how much would this cost?
We have to admit that there might not be too many colour TVs.
It’s not going to be a summer camp. It’s not going to be particularly fun. But it won’t be cruel and it won’t be unreasonable.
We will rapidly build capacity. We will take advantage of new prefabricated modular technology and build 12,000 prison places in the form of Nightingale prisons on Ministry of Defence land. And the army will be called in to assist.
Together, these measures will create an additional 22,000 prison places compared to Andy Burnham’s plans.
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