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Germany refuses to extradite man to UK over concerns about British jail conditions (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by thehatfox@lemmy.world to c/unitedkingdom

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[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago (17 children)

On the back of this evidence, the German court sought reassurances on two occasions from the UK authorities about prison conditions there.

The court said guarantees from the UK of compliance with minimum standards in accordance with the European convention on human rights were required. In addition, the court asked the British authorities to specify which prisons the Albanian man was going to be detained in and what his conditions of detention would be in those prisons.

A police station in Manchester replied to the court’s first request on the final day of the deadline for a response, saying 20,000 extra prison places were being built to deal with the problem of overcrowding. The second request for reassurance about UK prison conditions received no response from the UK.

"Just hand it over to us right now. It's overcrowded, but there will be new places soon (tm). Also, we won't tell you what prison."

So sloppy and unprofessional. I didn't think the state of UK prisons was so bad.

[–] smeg 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This sounds like it's kind of even worse than that, looks to me like nobody even bothered reading the response from the German court until it was too late! One vague response from one police station on the final day, sound like this just got forgotten.

[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've heard that the British police is understaffed. So that have something to do with this.

[–] ThePyroPython 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it is.

It's so bad that the Home Office is issuing quotas for "High-priority" crime which is code for solve things that make the news headlines: large scale drug busts, charging murderers, seizing large sums of cash and assets.

But they're completely deprioritising other crimes from bike theft to shoplifting to domestic violence and reducing the amount of community engagement activities.

Addressing smaller crimes and having officers engaged with the community is essential for fostering a safe environment. And here's the kicker; the more these low-level crimes go unpunished, the more high-level crimes happen are more likely to happen when fuelled by economic downturn.

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