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'Alarming' rise in self-harming at detention centres

By John Hirst

'Alarming' rise in self-harming at detention centres

Home Office figures reveal the desperate mental state of asylum-seekers locked up within the UK's immigration system

Incidences of self-harm in immigration detention centres rose 73 per cent in the first six months of this year, Home Office figures have revealed. The sharp increase has provoked calls for the Government to re-examine its policy of treating asylum-seekers as prisoners.

Instead of the government intending to increase those detained in immigration detention centres from 2,500 to 4,000 inmates, theses innocent people should be released and the centres could instead be used to hold convicted prisoners and the Titan jails plan should be scrapped.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on August 31, 2008 (boomark / email).