Sentences with phrase «immigration detention centre»

This year there have been two deaths in immigration detention centres.

It's hard to report on immigration detention centres.

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

The claimants operated the Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre under a contract with the Home Office.

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.

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

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

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

A detainee has been found dead at Colnbrook immigration detention centre, Politics.co.uk can confirm.

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

Prison inspectors have launched a savage attack on Oakington immigration detention centre, saying detainees feel unsafe and victimised.

Labour has pledged to close the UK's two main immigration detention centres, in the wake of the Windrush scandal.

Millions of the poorest workers lifted out of paying income tax Children no longer locked up in immigration detention centres Thousands of schools better able to support children from the poorest backgrounds Millions of pupils with a free school meal to help them through the day And same sex couples, finally getting the freedom to marry the person they love And still more important than any of these victories for ordinary people was our willingness to enter into coalition at all.

Some 26 asylum seekers escaped from Campsfield House Immigration Detention Centre near Oxford on Saturday after starting a fire to distract staff.

Yarl's Wood, and other immigration detention centres like it, have been a source of criticism and controversy in the UK for years.

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.

These hugely original photographs intimately record MacIndoe's downward trajectory from professional photographer with a flourishing career to struggling opiate addict, a journey of anguish and isolation that was to culminate in an arrest for drug possession and a four - month stint in New York's notorious Riker's Island prison and five months in an American immigration detention centre before he got clean.

The statement was informed by a series of symposium workshops, including one hosted by UNICEF Head of Advocacy Amy Lamoin that looked at the treatment of children in Australian immigration detention centres, and the impact of their detention on health and wellbeing.

Yesterday Freedom from Torture received a message from a woman detained behind the high walls and locked doors of Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre.

There are federal penitentiaries and federally - run immigration detention centres.

The legal developments came as protesters gathered outside Harmondsworth immigration detention centre to demand the release of the Nigerian asylum seeker.

«Detention is only supposed to be used when there's no reasonable alternative possible,» Hamilton tells me on the phone from Morton Hall immigration detention centre, where he's been for the last nine days.

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.

We advise people who have been unlawfully detained in immigration detention centres.

He then was moved to Maidstone, an immigration detention centre in Kent.

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.

Over 50 immigration detainees — people who have committed no crime and had no trial — are held in the prison rather than in immigration detention centres.

In this case, those harmed included survivors of torture who came to the UK seeking asylum, only to face re-traumatisation from being locked up in immigration detention centres.

Thompson's problems echo those experienced by Paulette Wilson, who was sent last year to an immigration detention centre and threatened with deportation to Jamaica, despite having been in Britain for 50 years.

Labour has called for a joint inquiry into the death of a woman at Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre, ahead of a post-mortem tomorrow morning.

Last October she was sent to Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre.

In the immigration detention centres dotted around Britain - the places no - one ever talks about where we hold people who have committed no crime - mass protests were kicking off.

Serco's contract running the immigration detention centre Yarls Wood came just after the announcement of a National Audit Office inquiry into how it was spending taxpayer money amid allegations it had «inflated certain figures».

Shadow home secretary writes to Home Office to ask why she has been denied visit to the immigration detention centre

The Home Office puts a lot of work into making sure no - one finds out how many pregnant women they hold in their immigration detention centres.

Shadow immigration minister Damien Green said: «Until the government gets a grip on the prison overcrowding crisis, the problems will continue to spill over and cause dangerous tensions in immigration detention centres.»

Terminally ill people have been handcuffed as they died in immigration detention centres, according to a devastating new report

The United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) is a coalition of families and friends of those who died in the custody of police, prison staff, secure psychiatric hospitals or immigration detention centres.

Thousands of men and women live in Britain's immigration detention centres.

In The BMJ this week, two experts debate whether doctors should boycott working in Australia's immigration detention centres.

The Australian Human Rights Commission has released the findings of its inspections of the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre (VIDC) and the Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre (YHIDC).