Sentences with phrase «at immigration detention centres»

Deaths at immigration detention centres often spark protests and riots at that centre and others.

After several allegations of staff misbehaviour at immigration detention centres, we're taking the government to court to find out if G4S are classified a «high risk» supplier.

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In fourth place is an anonymous account from a guard in an immigration detention centre who explained why working in a system which detains people who have never committed a crime, keeps him up at night.

In third place is a disturbing report of a death at the Colnebrook immigration detention centre.

Of those, four were successfully turned back to Indonesia, three sank at some point during the process (most passengers were rescued but two died) and the remaining five boats were transferred to an Australian - run Immigration Detention Centre for processing.

A protest which started on Friday at Harmondsworth immigration detention centre has spread to three other institutions, amid signs of nationwide unrest at the deportation process

Taken from their homes in the middle of the night, or in the very early hours of the morning, when immigration enforcement knows they'll be at home, and bundled into a van, then to a detention centre, and then on a plane to a country they never knew.

Authorities at Morton Hall immigration detention centre, where the 26 - year - old was held, said he had committed suicide.

The government has already been accused of deserting its promise to end the detention of children in immigration centres — a change that would have signaled one of the Lib Dem's few influences on policy and demonstrated that the government was at last sympathetic to the cause of asylum seekers.

Speaking at an urgent Commons debate in the wake of the death, Yvette Cooper said there had been worrying reports of poor health service provision and sexual assault at the Serco - run immigration detention centre in recent years.

«Some of the practices employed at the Dungavel detention centre in Scotland, including the detention of children, have been absolutely shameful and show why we need a new direction when it comes to asylum and immigration policy.»

The detention of children at immigration centres is distressing and harmful, according to the children's commission.

Immigration detention is once more in the news and was debated in Parliament this week, this time because of a hunger strike by women held at Yarls» Wood, the detention centre where abuse by guards was filmed undercover for Channel 4 in 2015.

Stepping in at the weekly Commons clash while David Cameron is in the States, Clegg said the government would make an announcement «shortly» on the closure of the controversial immigration detention centre.

And why did he die in detention at a British immigration detention centre?