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Xander Elliards

Reform pledge to 'deport 10k prisoners to El Salvador' and open pop-up jails

Reform UK home affairs spokesperson Zia Yusuf (left) and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage on Monday (Image: James Manning/PA)

REFORM UK have said they will deport prisoners to El Salvador and open pop-up prisons in "very out of the way places" in the UK in a bid to address prison overcrowding.

In a policy which directly mimics the US president Donald Trump, Reform have said they will look to rent prison capacity from the increasingly authoritarian Central American nation amid a capacity crisis in the UK’s estate.

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