HOME OFFICE policies intended to identify and release vulnerable people, including torture survivors, from immigration detention centres are “so ineffective, they are basically fictional,” according to a new report.
Safeguards exist to prevent the detention of vulnerable adults who would be at risk of harm if locked up, except in certain circumstances.
However, a report by the Medical Justice charity, published this week, finds the Home Office’s safeguarding mechanism to be “utterly and totally flawed.”
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
Mental health fears push Peers to change law on IPP torture sentences, reports Charley Allan
