The recent publication, by the former prisons and Probation Ombudsman, Stephen Shaw, prompted the home secretary to review how the time-limited detention works in other countries. The report examines the implementation of recommendations from an earlier report and builds on this, making further recommendations of actions to improve the treatment of detainees.
The government is committed to finding alternatives to detention centres and says they want to work with charities, faith groups, and others. Javid added that there would be an immediate stop to using rooms designed for a maximum of two people to house three, as well as reviewing the training and support for staff working in immigration removal centres. In 2017, the number of detainees in the UK, reduced by 8% – falling from 30,000 to around 28,000.
The report says that people who have committed a crime but lived in the UK for an extended period of time should be treated in the same way as a UK citizen, not deported.
In new research, vulnerable people including torture survivors and people with mental health problems were found to have been detained too often and for too long. It was revealed that the Home Office routinely ignores the “rule 35” reports from medical professionals that are intended to flag vulnerability concerns.
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