A general view of D Wing on the official opening of Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, next to Gatwick Airport in West Sussex, March 2009
VIOLENCE and self-harming have soared at a notorious immigration detention centre, after a public inquiry exposed its toxic culture, inspectors warned today.
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons found that the health service at Brook House centre in West Sussex is at “breaking point,” with fights and assaults on staff up more than five-fold since their last visit in 2022.
Incidents of self-harm have also more than doubled to 12 a month over the period.
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
AN “alarming” ingress of drugs at a prison led to the most inmate deaths in Wales and England last year, inspectors reveal today.
