LONDON, ENGLAND - Nigerians residing in Britain who have been booked for alleged criminal activities may soon be deported if moves at the parliament are anything to go by as they believe that this new stand on enforcing tougher laws on criminals will help sanitize the prisons.

According to a record released during the week in London by the Home Office, prisons in Britain has hit an all high population of over 80, 000 inmates in England and Wales, and blacks make up more than sixty percent of the inmates.

Although the exact figure of Nigerians held in British prisons were not immediately released, informed sources at the home office revealed, "We are yet to inform the Nigerian government but I can tell you we have over 10, 000 Nigerians in our prisons." He said that most times some of these criminals claim to be Ghanaians while the Ghanaians claim to be Nigerians. "We have sorted that out," he added.

According to the record released by the home office a total of 10,000 inmates are foreigners and many of them would soon be repatriated after diplomatic agreement with their home government.

Prisons situated at Belmarsh, Brixton, Wandsworth, Wormwood scrubs and Pentonville were said to have more inmates than their capacity or what the home office described as "operational capacity," which is described as the total number of prisoners that a prison can accommodate without serious risk to good order, security and proper administration of the establishment.