Criminals to pay costs of prosecution?

Offenders, who are foreign nationals, could serve their sentences in their homeland in future

CRIMINALS could be forced to pay their own court costs and foreign nationals in La Moye prison could be deported as part of a series of cost-cutting measures.
Earlier this year, the Public Accounts Committee issued a series of recommendations to improve efficiency after reviewing the States accounts for 2008. States departments yesterday issued their response to the report – and accepted many of the proposals.
Among the accepted proposals were recommendations to review the court costs system and consider forcing defendants to pay for bringing the case to court.
Defendants would be means-tested and ordered to pay some or all of the prosecution costs after being convicted of an offence. This would bring the system in line with UK courts.
Meanwhile, the Home Affairs Department have accepted recommendations to introduce new laws to allow foreign prisoners to serve their sentences in their homeland. And the Health Department have agreed to consider outsourcing some services if it will achieve a saving. (from JEP)

Sounds like a great idea to me...

Good idea to move foreign nationals especially if they do not let them back into the Bailiwick after they have served their sentence. Means testing for locals is also interesting but will it act as a deterent or just a way of making the wealthier ones pay for their time inside therefore effectively creating a tax that has to be collected and policed and of course paid for. So how big a saving will it be once the administration costs have been taken out for the department that has to collect and means test. Could be a false economy.