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A protest outside the detention centre
THE chief inspector of prisons has said that “it was hard to fathom why a stroke victim in need of social care” was held at an immigration detention centre in Oxfordshire.
Peter Clarke made the comments in a new report published today about Campsfield House, where staff apparently “could not adequately meet” the frail man’s medical needs.
The Home Office detains hundreds of asylum-seekers and other migrants at Campsfield while processing their immigration cases.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Despite Labour’s promises to bring things ‘in-house,’ the Justice Secretary has awarded notorious outsourcing outfit Mitie a £329 million contract to run a new prison — despite its track record of abuse and neglect in its migrant facilities, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
Government accused of scapegoating ethnic minorities after Home Office reveals plan to publish the nationalities of foreign criminals
