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More asylum-seekers to be jailed

01 July 1994

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Despite the increasing concern over the detention and treatment of asylum-seekers, the Prison Service announced in June that more places designated for asylum-seekers were to be created in five prisons. Rochester prison is to hold 200 asylum-seekers in two refurbished wings. The other prisons are Haslar, Birmingham, Holloway and Doncaster. The Home Office says that this will replace the current dispersion of asylum-seekers around 41 prisons and concentrate resources. Critics point to the record numbers of asylum detainees and to the international conventions prohibiting the locking up of refugees.

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