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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Aine Fox

Warning over more mistreatment if Brook House Inquiry recommendations ignored

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More detainees in immigration centres could face inhumane treatment unless a raft of recommendations – including a 28-day detention limit – are implemented in full, an inquiry chairwoman has warned.

Kate Eves – who concluded that there had been 19 incidents of mistreatment against detainees at Brook House immigration removal centre (IRC) over a five-month period in 2017 – repeated her observation that past calls to Government reform had fallen on deaf ears.

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