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Violent UK offenders could be sent to El Salvador under Farage crime crackdown
Nigel Farage has said violent UK offenders could be jailed overseas under his plans to cut crime by half.
The Reform UK leader named El Salvador as a likely destination, though he said he has not held conversations with officials there and "multiple" partners would be considered. El Salvador is home to a notorious mega-prison, the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).
Politics Live: Starmer explains how he plans to make people 'better off' In a speech on law and order on Monday, Mr Farage said: "It is quite astonishing that to keep a prisoner in a British prison it costs nearly £52,000 a year. "You could send a child Eton for that price.
"So we can send some of our worst violent criminals overseas to serve their terms. If that means Ian Huntley goes to El Salvador.
Well, our attitude is 'so be it'." Huntley is serving a life term for the murders of two 10-year-old girls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, in Soham, Cambridgeshire, in 2002. Asked if he had spoken to any members of the El Salvadoran government about his plans, Mr Farage said he had not but "we do know they're quite happy to take American violent offenders".
In March, the Trump administration deported more than 130 alleged Venezuelan gang members to the CECOT while the US president has also spoken of sending "homegrown criminals" to the super max facility. Reform UK said it wanted to create 10,000 "dynamic" prison places overall by renting cells in third party countries, at a cost of £250m per year.
This would involve "multiple partners including El Salvador.
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