The Justice Secretary will also announce plans to bring forward legislation that would allow prisoners to be held overseas.
The Government will pledge to send more foreign prisoners home, with ministers under pressure to act amid serious pressure on prison capacity.
The Ministry of Justice said that over 3,1000 foreign criminals have already been removed in the year to March, but 10,500 remain locked up in England and Wales. Officials are also looking at what more can be done to remove foreign offenders convicted of less serious offences more quickly, with plans as well to introduce new conditions to ban those convicted from returning to the UK.
Ahead of MPs hearing the plans, the Justice Secretary used an article in the Sunday Telegraph to say that sending less serious offenders into prison was the “wrong use” of the system.He suggested prisoners could instead clean up neighbourhoods, scrub graffiti off walls or plant forests.
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