India, Aug. 11 -- The UK Government announced that it will strip back a decades-old law to introduce new powers for immediate deportation of convicted foreign criminals from prison.
The new power will get foreign national offenders out of prisons ahead of their convicted terms.
The change follows legislation introduced by the Government in June, which will mean most foreign prisoners can now be deported after serving 30 percent of their prison time, rather than 50 percent.
Offenders who are deported are barred from re-entering the UK. Terrorists, murderers and others serving life sentences will continue to have to serve their prison sentence before being considered for deportation, the Ministry of Justice and Home Office said.
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