Immigration Detention Dispatch – 16 March 2017
Posted: March 16, 2017 Filed under: Detention Centres, News | Tags: Brook House, children, deportation, immigration, immigration detention, immigration removal centre, parliament, Protest, removal, Yarl's Wood Leave a commentAverage length of stay in Brook House removal centre rises as some “held for years”
Credit: Darren Johnson
Catch up on the fortnight’s immigration detention news and parliamentary debate
Immigration Detention Dispatch – 18 January 2017
Posted: January 18, 2017 Filed under: Detention Centres, News | Tags: children, death, deaths in custody, detention, documentary, Home Office, immigration, immigration detention, mental health, Operation Magnify, parliament, pregnant, slavery, suicide, women Leave a commentThird immigration detention death in six weeks as report finds mental health services “patchy”
Credit: Darren Johnson
Catch up on the fortnight’s immigration detention news and parliamentary debate
Immigration Detention Dispatch – 23 November 2016
Posted: November 23, 2016 Filed under: Detention Centres, Facts & stats, News | Tags: arrests, Calais, children, detention, Dungavel, G4S, Home Office, immigration, minister, minors, Nauru, parliament, Scotland, Yarl's Wood Leave a commentTB scare at Yarl’s Wood and film crew gets invite to detention island
Source: Darren Johnson
Catch up on the fortnight’s immigration detention news and parliamentary debate
Immigration Detention Dispatch – 26 October 2016
Posted: October 26, 2016 Filed under: Detention Centres, News | Tags: children, detention, detention centres, Dungavel, Harmondsworth, Home Office, immigration, immigration detention, minor, parliament, sexual assault Leave a commentCalais children detention and food hygiene failures
Image: Simon Brass
More of the last fortnight’s immigration detention news and parliamentary debate.
Children in prison in England & Wales suffer state-sanctioned abuse
Posted: June 23, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: children, Frances Crook, Lord Carlile, prison, Restraint systems, segregation, solitary confinement, strip searches, The Howard League for Penal Reform Leave a commentNew report on restraint, segregation & strip searching of children in prison
Source: Howard League for Penal Reform
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Child prisoners in England & Wales are subject to unlawful restraint, extended solitary confinement and random strip-searches according to a new report by the Howard League for Penal Reform.
The Carlile Inquiry 10 years on says that the “illegal, systemic, physical abuse of children, sanctioned by the state” continues a decade after an independent inquiry by Lord Carlile of Berriew QC called for reforms. Read the rest of this entry »
Will this private US company run children’s prisons better than G4S?
Posted: April 21, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: ACLU, child prisons, children, G4S, Inquest, Medway, MTCNovo, Rainsbrook, The Howard League for Penal Reform, Youth Justice Board 1 CommentMTCNovo’s US prison record under the spotlight
Source: theblackletter.com.au
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A “horror as should be unrealised anywhere in the civilised world”. This is how one US judge described an MTCNovo run prison. MTCNovo won a contract to run Rainsbrook STC in September 2015.
What you need to know about BBC’s Panorama on G4S bullying young offenders
Posted: January 12, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: child prisons, children, G4S, Medway, Michael Gove, Nick Hardwick, Panorama, young offenders, Young Offenders Institute 4 CommentsCompany’s staff accused of abusing young offenders and falsifying reports to avoid fines
Kent Police are investigating Medway YOI after BBC Panorama. Image: BBC
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G4S has been accused of abusing young offenders under its care and falsifying reports to avoid fines in a BBC Panorama undercover investigation.
