Prisons: Overcrowding - Motion to Take Note
– in the House of Lords at 11:37 am on 7th
September 2017.
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers Judge 12:52 pm, 7
September 2017
[…] The second
consideration arose from observing the increasing number of prisoners who do
not have English as their first language, and indeed in some cases barely speak
or understand English at all. The need to have translators in court, the
difficulty sometimes of obtaining suitably qualified candidates to translate
and the delays incurred thereby have been well documented elsewhere. However,
when the same problems are exacerbated in prison, a failure by prison staff
through no fault of their own to communicate effectively with inmates, and the
inability to comprehend inmates’ various dialects and vernaculars and the
issues that are particular to their tribal differences, cause delay in
administration, which in turn restricts the execution of the system, which in
turn leads to overcrowding. I am aware that there is no speedy resolve to these
language problems, other than to hasten repatriation where appropriate. […]
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