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FEMALE detainees were forced to mix with men with a history of sexual violence in an immigration centre due to Covid restrictions, inspectors found.
Concerns have been raised about Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre in Lanarkshire, after women had to be escorted around the site to make sure they were safe from some of the male detainees.
The report said that before the pandemic, these men were held in a separate unit with controlled access to common parts of the centre.
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
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
