Abstract
Small boats and big states
Highlights
Hardship, danger and the risk of death
The report documents: l 54 self-harm incidents in Yarl’s Wood; l Five transfers to mental health beds at Brook House; l 102 assaults, 260 threats of violence, 24 fights at Brook House; l Serious abuse of restraint on removal flights; l Detainees held without any sleeping facilities and no showers in the Kent Barrack; and l 73 children held for over 12 hours at Heathrow
Jane Leech, MBE and IMB lead for monitoring of immigration detention said: ‘It’s extremely concerning that on a wide range of issues including vulnerability and self-harm, use of restraint on removal flights, and poor facilities at some ports and airports we are having to raise similar concerns year on year.’
Summary
Hardship, danger and the risk of death. Access to Justice requires the Home Office to look at humane ways of fixing their broken system. I’ve worked in France and Athens as an activist lawyer, taking cases under Dublin III to reunite children and vulnerable adults with family members in the UK. The report documents: l 54 self-harm incidents in Yarl’s Wood; l Five transfers to mental health beds at Brook House; l 102 assaults, 260 threats of violence, 24 fights at Brook House; l Serious abuse of restraint on removal flights; l Detainees held without any sleeping facilities (beds) and no showers in the Kent Barrack; and l 73 children held for over 12 hours at Heathrow.
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