Sentences with phrase «immigration removal centre»

• For the patience of Job for the officers in immigration removal centres as they continue to be kind and respectful to a variety of often angry young men.

The prisons watchdog has described a controversial immigration removal centre as a «place of national concern».

Twenty - two - year - old Mary - not her real name, arrived at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre in the dead of night.

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said: «This report shows just how difficult life can for be for detainees at immigration removal centres.

The letter was presented the week after the Independent Inspector of Prisons reported that torture survivors were being held at Harmondsworth immigration removal centre, and amid continuing reports of women detainees on hunger strike at Yarl's Wood.

Diane Abbott has written to the home secretary, Amber Rudd, to ask why she has been refused permission to visit the controversial Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre despite at least a dozen requests over more than a year.

A Home Office spokesperson said: «We can confirm that a detainee at Colnbrook immigration removal centre died in the early hours of this morning.

Sir Antony Gormley, the Turner Prize winning artist and creator of the Angel Of The North Sculpture in Gateshead is to curate the 2017 Koestler Awards exhibition of art by offenders, secure patients, and immigration removal centre detainees.

In their letter, which was printed in the Guardian newspaper on Tuesday, Bishop Jonathan and Dr Michael said: «We are concerned that the injustices that prompted last month's hunger strike at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre continue.

The two women, who have lived in the United Kingdom for 14 years, have faced repeated deportation attempts and have been detained at the Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre since January 2018.

He was sent to Morton Hall Immigration Removal Centre near Lincoln (pictured, above right), a former prison with towering fences and razor wire, holding 370 other detainees from many backgrounds, half of whom had served prison sentences in the UK.

Last June, four men were released from Harmondsworth immigration removal centre after they went on hunger strike.

In fact they run just 13 of the 124 prisons and National Offender Management Service - run immigration removal centres — or 11 %.

Yet a recent report by the Independent Inspector of Prisons of Harmondsworth immigration removal centre found that many identified torture survivors continue to be detained.

Home Office minister James Brokenshire said two further allegations were made at other immigration removal centres.

«The challenges of opening a new immigration removal centre should not be underestimated, particularly with inexperienced staff and challenging detainees, many of them ex-prisoners,» said Dame Anne.

The individual who is being deported tomorrow is currently in Dover Immigration Removal centre.

The prisons watchdog has described a controversial immigration removal centre as a «place of national concern» - one woman who was held at Yarl's Wood tells BBC News her story.

Report by anti-rape campaigners, sent to all MPs, documents complaints from current and former detainees at the Bedfordshire immigration removal centre

Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre in Oxfordshire is rumoured to be adding extra 90 beds to its capacity.

A spokesperson for Serco, which runs the detention centre, said: «A 40 - year old female resident at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre collapsed on Sunday morning soon after getting up.

The 21 - year - old is about to start a 13 - hour shift as a detainee custody officer at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre.

«Maybe I done something idiot and stupid, but whole point [of an] immigration removal centre is removing people.

Resident artists, 20 July — 16th August 2015 Whilst based at Res, Removal Men (M.J. Harding, Jonah Brody), will be working with actor Angela Wynter on a musical about a fictional immigration removal centre.

One man was arrested in the early hours of the morning after he glued himself to the entrance of Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre, near Heathrow, in a frantic bid to stop the deportation.

Increasing numbers of women are being detained at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre despite professional evidence that they are victims of torture, rape and trafficking, according to a report by the chief inspector of prisons.

The number of people held in immigration removal centres in the UK has steadily increased, with a total of over 30,000 held in 2013, they write.

She was then taken to a hostel, where she was later arrested and sent to Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre to be deported.

A recent BBC Panorama documentary levelled serious criticisms at another immigration removal centre, Brook House.

I do believe that immigration removal centres will no longer exist in the next few years and the detainees I currently lock up will somehow be managed out in the community.

If I knew what it was like to work in an immigration removal centre (IRC) before I accepted the position, would I still have come?

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

As a result, these children might end up being housed with adults, denied access to education or even detained as an adult in an Immigration Removal Centre and forcibly removed from the country.»

The judge found that the narrowing of the definition of torture lacked «rational or evidence base» and led to many survivors of torture being wrongly held in immigration removal centres.

The intervention by the author comes ahead of a protest outside the Home Office in which the government will be pressed to end the practice of detaining women in immigration removal centres.

Pregnant and vulnerable women are being wrongly detained at an immigration removal centre, inspectors have said.

Pregnant women and those with serious mental health issues are being wrongly detained at an immigration removal centre, inspectors say.

Staff at an immigration removal centre were «not adequately trained», an independent report has found.

Meanwhile, the Verne in Weymouth, initially marketed as a new addition of the UK's detention estate, remains undecided as to call itself an immigration removal centre or a prison.

A decade of complaints about sexual abuse and mistreatment at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre are documented in a report based on hundreds of complaints by detainees.

The Home Office said: «Independent scrutiny is a vital part of ensuring our immigration removal centres are safe, secure and humane.

A woman died this weekend, on Mother's Day, in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre.

Kenyan asylum seeker wins high court case after being placed in segregation for 28 hours in immigration removal centre

In addition, a number of the UK's Immigration Removal Centres are privately operated, including the Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre, Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre, and Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre.

Earlier this week, Peter Clarke, the chief inspector of prisons, delivered a damning report on Harmondsworth immigration removal centre.

Isa Muazu, a soft - spoken 45 - year - old from Nigeria, has been on hunger strike for almost 90 days in Harmondsworth immigration removal centre.

Last year was the deadliest year on record for detention in the UK, with six suicides and an estimated 528 incidents of serious self - harm in immigration removal centres.

«It will however have an entirely different look and feel to an immigration removal centre with a high degree of privacy for each family.

G4S is currently contracted by the government to operate two immigration removal centres, five prisons and one secure training centre.

However, it was announced in January 2011 that Lancaster Castle and Ashwell prisons would be closed and Morton Hall prison would become an immigration removal centre.