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A protest outside the detention centre
THE chief inspector of prisons has said that “it was hard to fathom why a stroke victim in need of social care” was held at an immigration detention centre in Oxfordshire.
Peter Clarke made the comments in a new report published today about Campsfield House, where staff apparently “could not adequately meet” the frail man’s medical needs.
The Home Office detains hundreds of asylum-seekers and other migrants at Campsfield while processing their immigration cases.
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