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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.
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
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
