Sentences with phrase «immigration detention centres»

the closure of the Australia's offshore immigration detention centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea

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

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

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

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.

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

It's hard to report on immigration detention centres.

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

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

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.»

The crowd was read a the names of the 19 people who have died while under custody in British immigration detention centres in the last 25 years.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

«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.

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

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?

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

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.

Recent examples of our work in discrimination law include suing an immigration detention centre for racial discrimination, challenging the police for stopping and searching people based on race, challenging discriminatory bail conditions applied to people wrongly arrested during the London riots, failing to protect a homosexual prisoner from assault by homophobic inmates and persuading a school to apologise and train relevant staff after it excluded a pupil with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

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

Children, including juvenile foreign fishers and, where possible, their families, will not be detained in an immigration detention centre.

Not exact matches

One of the Coalition government's first - and best - policies was to end the detention of children in immigration removal centres.

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.

It sent multiple vans full of immigration officers to people's homes in dawn raids, before separating the husbands from the wives and sending them to detention centres.

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.

ATHENS (Reuters)- Greece opened its first purpose - built detention centre for illegal migrants on Sunday in Athens, a week before a national election where illegal immigration has emerged as a key issue.

The Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris, whose constituency covers the Kidlington detention centre, said the escape was the second major incident since foreign national ex-prisoners were mixed with immigration detainees, and also since management of the centre was transferred to the American company GEO.

«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.

Clegg also promised to fulfil the government's pledge to end child detention by closing the Yarl's Wood immigration centre in Bedfordshire.

That study found that, since 2011, Canada has housed more than 200 Canadian minors in detention in Toronto's Immigration Holding Centre, alongside hundreds of formally detained non-Canadian children, and its authors recommended that Canada implement alternatives to the detention of children rather than confining them in immigration detention facilities or separating them from their detainImmigration Holding Centre, alongside hundreds of formally detained non-Canadian children, and its authors recommended that Canada implement alternatives to the detention of children rather than confining them in immigration detention facilities or separating them from their detainimmigration detention facilities or separating them from their detained parents.