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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lizzie Dearden

Home Office spent £1,500 ‘redecorating’ migrant detention centre where children’s cartoons painted over

HM Inspectorate of Prisons

The Home Office spent more than £1,500 “redecorating” a migrant detention centre where children’s cartoons were painted over.

A Freedom of Information request revealed the cost of works at Manston in Kent, where all asylum seekers arriving on small boats are detained for initial processing.

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