Send back prisoners

I NOTICE the Correctional Services Department has indicated that it cannot pack any further illegal immigrants from mainland China into our prisons.

Since China will inherit this problem in 21/2 years time, why cannot the Secretary for Security simply come to an agreement with China that all mainland Chinese, convicted by Hong Kong courts to jail sentences, be immediately deported to serve out the remainder of their sentences in mainland Chinese prisons? This would equally act as a deterrent to would-be illegal immigrants/criminals as Stanley Prison must seem like a five star hotel compared to the gulags they would be incarcerated in by the Chinese Government.

A. G. FOULKES Mid-Levels