Detention centre healthcare, by commercial contrator Primecare, was “extremely basic” and unsafe, court hears.
Days before his death, a frail old Canadian man slept on chairs in a Gatwick Airport holding room, a court heard yesterday.
• Another man dies at The Verne, an isolated detention centre in Dorset• The Samaritans said Verne was too dangerous to visit• Chief inspector of prisons concludes Verne is “satisfactory”
Men with strong family ties to the UK are being forcibly removed on ghost flights, leaving pregnant partners and young children behind.
22 year old man detained regardless of UK rules forbidding detention of torture survivors.
New report from HM Inspectorate of Prisons on Campsfield House, run by outsourcer Mitie, reveals:• 16 year old detained ‘by mistake’• Torture victims held in defiance of Home Office rules• Dirty, overcrowded accommodation
Another inquest, another death in UK immigration detention: the case of Tahir Mehmood. Phil Miller of Corporate Watch reports from the Coroner’s Court.
Four years ago G4S was involved in the unlawful killing of an immigration detainee called Jimmy Mubenga. Now they're winning NHS contracts to care for detainees.
A company called Mitie cleans Odeon cinemas and NHS hospitals . . . Now, all of a sudden, they're the UK government's favoured supplier for locking up immigration detainees. How did that happen?
• Home Office contractors agree “significant” financial settlement• 77 year old locum doctor did not know detention centre rules• Brian Dalrymple, a 35 year old American tourist, died of natural causes; neglect was a contributing factor• Mother pays tribute to “warm and loving man”
Doctor who saw the American tourist before his death knew neither mental health law nor detention centre rules
For years rival healthcare companies at two for-profit immigration lock-ups failed properly to communicate. A report from Day 4 of the inquest into the death of Brian Dalrymple
