Detention centres attacked as figures reveal self-harm by asylum-seekers
"The true cost of using detention centres to lock up failed asylum-seekers has been exposed by statistics showing the extent of self-harm among those held.
Figures show that in the last four months of 2007, 42 people needed medical attention for self-harm in Britain's 10 centres.
This represents 2 per cent of the 2,095 people held at that time. As well as these cases, one in five people held were considered to be at risk of self-harm and being formally observed. Colnbrook detention centre, near Heathrow, was worst, with 18 cases of self-harm treated in four months, and 126 people under formal watch".
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Wonder where they propose to keep these people if not a detention centre until they are either shipped back out or granted visas. It isn't an ideal situation and many escaping intolerable conditions but if they was let out in the community at large, what chance is there of keeping track of them ? These centres should be made more humane so the proper preocesses can take place. When they self harm and go on hunger strikes, its a cry for help and attention, they get it no matter which way they go.
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