Neglect, contempt and hostility — how the UK government really welcomes refugees.
Gypsy and Irish Traveller prisoners represent 5% of the entire prison population of England and Wales. Let’s get their education right.
Commercial contractors routinely belt immigration detainees into restraints so extreme that they are rarely used in prisons.
Corporations bleed what profits they can from disaster. Democracy is replaced by a business plan. An excerpt from Antony Loewenstein’s Disaster Capitalism: Making A Killing Out Of Catastrophe.
The death of Alois Dvorzak exposes increased shackling of immigration detainees, as commercial contractors fear financial penalties that follow escapes.
Dvorzak inquest. Day 8: Juror: Should arrangements for vulnerable detainees have been in place a long time ago?Home Office official: “Yes. I don't know why they weren’t.”
84 year old immigration detainee was handcuffed and chained as he lay dying in hospital. Dvorzak Inquest, Day 6.
Today former detainees and their supporters gather to protest at the former prison in South Lanarkshire.
Coroner: “But Mr Dvorzak had chest pains. Why was he still handcuffed?”Security company employee: “I can’t justify a comment on that.”West London Coroner’s Court, 23 October 2015.
The for-profit escort company Tascor told a worried medic that a frail old man’s removal from Britain “could not be aborted unless there was resistance”, an inquest jury hears.
Manager of a UK for-profit detention centre tells inquest jury: “There was no room for discretion. Challenging it would have slowed him going to hospital.”
Detention centre healthcare, by commercial contrator Primecare, was “extremely basic” and unsafe, court hears.
