life. detention centre places today arriving than in 1993. Then, there were some 200 immigration Harmondsworth detention centre (near Heathrow airport) and Haslar prison (near Then detention Oxford #Cak Tinsley House (1995), and detention wings at Rochester prison (1996). This Oakington "reception cen- being tre" near Cambridge has just prison near Doncaster is to be a "detention wing" (110 places); and Aldington proper prison near Folkestone will be converted to a detention announced last July.
And they are still talking about those detention centre "floatels" (sister ships of the Herald of Free Enterprise no longer used by oil and gas rig The recent increase in the number of refugees uxiora nas Ica to speculation that the abandoned US Air SOCALIS Force base at Upper Heyford cial in north Oxfordshire may be next on the government's racist detained under 1971 Immigration Act each year in the UK, and 700-1,000 are often the in detention centres and (in breach of UN guidelines) in prisons.
To imprison someone is to criminalise them. They must have done something wrong if they're locked up, mustn't they? In other words, they must be criminals! A reasonable assumption in normal The treatment of a refugee alised racism.
Heathrow In Dover is anything bur "norOn the say-so of junior detention immigration officers, around 15% of people claiming asylum on arrival are arbitrarily selected to be locked up in a centre or prison ally months, sometimes over 2 years.
without charged crime, without writreasons being given, and without legal and medical support.
much worse than the treatconvicted criminal.
Detention is one of ine injustices meied our to refugees and exclusion and institutionfew years, Britain and Germany have led the way in immigration not imprisoning migrants at home, but urging, even paying for, the construction of Poland, Romania and other states to REFUGES ARE NOT CRIMINALS inst campsfield TUN-A