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G4S contract to run detention centres renewed despited documented abuse
Brook House

A WEEK AGO, buried behind the wall-to-wall press coverage of the local elections, it was announced that the government had renewed G4S’s contract to run the Brook House and Tinsley House immigration removal centres for another two years.

It came the same week that we had official confirmation that people are being kept in detention for over a year, that there were deportation targets and that some people were wrongly deported.

This is after repeated denials by senior ministers, including the Prime Minister.

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