ANCHOR NOTEL protests of local residents who had been in live animals. A NEW official report has slammed Group 4's running of Campsfield detention centre in Kidlington, near Oxford.
It has prompted Claude Moraes of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants to call again for Campsfield to be closed down.
It is just one of a network of prisons set up to hold asylum seekers as Britain's contribution to the racist 'Fortress Europe' policy.
The Chief Inspector of prisons Judge Stephen Tumim's report on Campsfield House says it is hardly surprising that there have been mass protests and hunger strikes.
Britain's first private immigration detention centre holds 200 asylum seekers in miserable conditions. The 59 "detention orderlies" are paid £4 an hour and drawn largely from the ex-forces.
"When combined with an uncertain future, language difficulties, a perceived or real lack of information and the fact that some detainees appeared to be terrified at the prospect of being deported, the stress increases" the judge said.
This should not come as any surprise. Campsfield is the shape of the future. Fortress Europe needs its prisons and it needs bully boys to run them.
While the governments of western Europe want to restrict movement of people they will always require repressive institutions of control.
These will always tend to be brutal. Putting Group 4 in charge guarantees it. • Telephone the Campaign to Close Campsfield on 01865-724452.