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‘Locked up for 13 hours as the profits rocket’
IMMIGRATION detainees are being locked up for 13 hours a day to save money on staffing and pump up profits for private contractors, the High Court heard today.
Three former detainees in the notorious Brook House removal centre, near Gatwick, are taking legal action against allegedly “unlawful” conditions at the site where they were locked up for 13 hours a day.
The three, who are all refugees from Afghanistan, were locked up in “small, dirty and unhygienic” rooms from 9pm to 8am every day as well as two one-hour lock-ins each afternoon.
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