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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rajeev Syal

Albanians willing to be repatriated detained for weeks in UK, watchdog finds

Exterior of Yarls Wood detention centre
Some detainees were not being given privacy while using the lavatory in deportation centres. Photograph: Karen Robinson/The Observer

Albanians volunteering to be repatriated under a fast-track deportation deal are being detained unnecessarily for several weeks at taxpayers’ expense, the prisons watchdog has found.

HM chief inspector of prisons also found that staff did not know about the vulnerabilities of detainees held in deportation centres before being removed to Tirana, and some were not being given privacy while using the lavatory.

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