In 2015, David Cameron announced that the UK would be building a £25 million prison in Jamaica to rehouse Jamaican nationals currently in Britain’s prisons. The problems with this were multi-faceted; first, there are more Irish and Polish nationals in Britain’s prisons, so why the focus on Jamaica? Second, there were only 700 Jamaican nationals in the UK’s prisons anyway, so one may also question if the project is worth £25 million of taxpayers’ money in a country that is already the most heavily incarcerated in Western Europe by quite some distance.
