A criminal system - A problem out of sight, out of mind

AS YOU read this at least 35 — but maybe as many as 90 — citizens of this State are in specialist care in Britain because we have no place to offer them refuge from the terrible disadvantage of their birth.

They are in that situation because they are intellectually disadvantaged and have committed a crime. They are just another representation of one of our finer hypocrisies: got a problem? Export it.

Not only do we not have a place of refuge to offer these people, we cannot say how many of our citizens are in this situation.