1. Immigration detention is Racist, Inhumane and Unnecessary. People are kept in prison conditions for coming to the UK to find sanctuary, offer their skills or find a different life. People are held indefinitely and for lengthy periods. The UK still has one of the largest immigration prison estates in Europe, with over 30,000 migrants detained annually. Since 2007, there have been 35 deaths in UK immigration prisons. Dungavel is one of 11 facilities the UK have that are specifically designed to hold people in Immigration Detention. It is the only one in Scotland.
2. Detention Kills. In September this year (2017) a Chinese National was found dead in Dungavel. Yet there have been no other details released by the Home Office. This is the third death in a month. And the fifth in the last year. We demand answers!
3. Detention centres increase the risk of suicide. There have been 2,293 attempted suicides in 10 years in detention centres across the country. Detention and its indeterminate nature exacerbates mental illness and distress. Two of the deaths in the last year have been from suicide.
4. Detainees regularly experience abuse from staff. Undercover documentaries in Yarl’s Wood and Brook House IRCs in the last couple of years have shown horrific and sadistic treatment of detainees by staff. The complaints procedure in place in detention has limited and there is often no available remedy to challenge this happening. There is no place for immigration prison in a society that respects human rights.
4. Dungavel is run by a US For-Profit Company - Geo Group - they have a financial incentive to lock people up in the cheapest ( therefore most inhumane and degrading) conditions they can get away with. Such as keeping staff in low number and badly trained. It costs £630 a week to house one detainee. It is cheaper to house people than detain them. All detention centres in the UK are run by private companies. G4S, who run detention centres near Gatwick airport, have been found out recently to be making too much profit than even their contact should have allowed.
5. They are used to imprison those waiting for a decision on their asylum claim or those who still have a right to appeal. Refugees can be put in detention just for entering the UK. Every year thousands of people who, according to the Home Office’s own rules, should not be detained – survivors of torture, people with severe mental health problems, children and women more than 6 months pregnant – are detained, some for many years.
6. Wage Slavery - Detainees inside detention recieve £1 a day for work they carry out.
Join us in Demanding an End to Immigration Detention for good. Come and Surround Dungavel!
LINKS
http://thirdforcenews.org.uk/blogs/dungavels-demise-is-welcome-but-now-we-must-stop-its
http://www.thenational.scot/news/urgent-guarantees-sought-on-detainees-at-planned-rapid-removal-centre-to-replace-dungavel.22180
http://www.renfrewshire24.co.uk/2016/09/08/home-office-announces-plans-for-an-immigration-holding-facility-in-renfrewshire/
http://www.thenational.scot/news/plan-released-for-dungavel-replacement-centre-beside-glasgow-airport.23061
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/mixed-reception-closure-controversial-dungavel-8842225
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/13/g4s-may-make-more-profit-than-allowed-from-removal-centres-figures-suggest
2. Detention Kills. In September this year (2017) a Chinese National was found dead in Dungavel. Yet there have been no other details released by the Home Office. This is the third death in a month. And the fifth in the last year. We demand answers!
3. Detention centres increase the risk of suicide. There have been 2,293 attempted suicides in 10 years in detention centres across the country. Detention and its indeterminate nature exacerbates mental illness and distress. Two of the deaths in the last year have been from suicide.
4. Detainees regularly experience abuse from staff. Undercover documentaries in Yarl’s Wood and Brook House IRCs in the last couple of years have shown horrific and sadistic treatment of detainees by staff. The complaints procedure in place in detention has limited and there is often no available remedy to challenge this happening. There is no place for immigration prison in a society that respects human rights.
4. Dungavel is run by a US For-Profit Company - Geo Group - they have a financial incentive to lock people up in the cheapest ( therefore most inhumane and degrading) conditions they can get away with. Such as keeping staff in low number and badly trained. It costs £630 a week to house one detainee. It is cheaper to house people than detain them. All detention centres in the UK are run by private companies. G4S, who run detention centres near Gatwick airport, have been found out recently to be making too much profit than even their contact should have allowed.
5. They are used to imprison those waiting for a decision on their asylum claim or those who still have a right to appeal. Refugees can be put in detention just for entering the UK. Every year thousands of people who, according to the Home Office’s own rules, should not be detained – survivors of torture, people with severe mental health problems, children and women more than 6 months pregnant – are detained, some for many years.
6. Wage Slavery - Detainees inside detention recieve £1 a day for work they carry out.
Join us in Demanding an End to Immigration Detention for good. Come and Surround Dungavel!
LINKS
http://thirdforcenews.org.uk/blogs/dungavels-demise-is-welcome-but-now-we-must-stop-its
http://www.thenational.scot/news/urgent-guarantees-sought-on-detainees-at-planned-rapid-removal-centre-to-replace-dungavel.22180
http://www.renfrewshire24.co.uk/2016/09/08/home-office-announces-plans-for-an-immigration-holding-facility-in-renfrewshire/
http://www.thenational.scot/news/plan-released-for-dungavel-replacement-centre-beside-glasgow-airport.23061
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/mixed-reception-closure-controversial-dungavel-8842225
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/13/g4s-may-make-more-profit-than-allowed-from-removal-centres-figures-suggest