The USA is keeping millions prisoners foreigners just to be deported one day

Why the USA has to keep millions of foreigners in its prisons, to feed them, to provide for them, just to deport them when their sentence is over. There has to be a certain limit or percentage of time after that they have to be sent to their native countries to do whatever they want with them, to release them or to continue their prison time.

In the federal prisons 20% are foreigners. The United States has transfer agreements with 81 countries for transfer of prisoners under International Prisoner Transfer program. But that program is valid only if the person is already sentenced and all appeals are over, and when both countries agree to the process and if the prisoner wants to apply for that transfer, and at the end if ?the transfer is approved by the Department of Justice, its ?Office of Internal Affairs to the Criminal Division. Only 4% of the foreign prisoners in our jails apply for transfer. Some apply because they get released in their native countries, others because of the better conditions in other countries prisons or other humanitarian reasons.

Some of the prisoners, I don’t have the right statistics here, because nobody has done it, are incarcerated for crimes, that are no crimes in other countries. In the USA almost everything could constitute a crime. Like having sex on the beach. One person was sentenced to 18 years in prison for having sex on the beach of Miami with his love girl. ?Believe me, it is not a crime in most of the countries in the world.

Or pee at a tree could end you in jail; resisting officer order could be felony up to 5 years in jail and so on. Sex is forbidden in most of the states, according to the old laws dating 50 years ago, and that were never changed.

Other offenses carry different time in our country and other countries in the world.

Why all these people we have to keep in our prisons and to take care of them, when we have to deport them at the end of their sentence. Some people actually want to be deported or transfered, and their governments also want them deported, others prefer to stay here and to fight the deportation after their sentence is over.

The laws are quite unfair to the foreigners who can’t get the good time according to the new First step act that can reduce the time up to 65% of the sentence in prison. Even they can take the programs that US citizens take, they still can’t get the time and can only use it towards telephones, visits and other benefits.

After certain amount of time, usually half of the conviction time served, foreigners can ask to be transferred abroad to their native country if we have treaty with that country. But their application could be denied.

Sometimes the United States can promise transfer in return for an offender agreeing not to oppose an extradition request. This deprives the Office of Internal Affairs of discretional functions that are to deny the application for transfer during the sentence. ?The federal statute does not address whether a decision to deny a transfer request can be reconsidered or whether a denied applicant can reapply for transfer in the future. Usually it is final decision by the Office of the Internal Affairs, and deprives the international prisoners to reapply, to reunite with their family if they want to do that. It is quite unfair the international prisoners to be kept away from their families, while the Americans can enjoy visits and domestic phone calls. That right is given to the American prisoners, who get more humane treatment under the law. Reconnecting with the family members is important to the rehabilitation process that is neglected by the authorities. The whole justice system has no intent to reconstruct healthy communities, but to divide the individuals from their family support and ties. And that is costly financial burden on our prisons system.