Deborah Cheney of the University of Kent and member of the Board of Visitors at Canterbury Prison argues for greater awareness of the plight of foreign nationals in British prisons, backed by international co-ordination and local specialisation to address systematically their particular needs from initial remand to end of sentence.
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