Government considers sending prisoners to Estonia to solve overcrowding in British Prisons

The British government is considering sending inmates to Estonia to solve the problem of overcrowding in prisons.

Sky News has reported “that having offenders serve out their sentence in the Baltic state is one of many options being considered to address over-capacity on the prison estate, where there are thought to be just over 1,000 spaces left in prisons across England and Wales.”

The impact of the recent riots, which saw many people jailed on an accelerated process, has reportedly pushed the prison system to breaking point. This has already led the government to allow offenders to be released after serving just 40% of their sentence.