The riots at Harmondsworth immigration removal centre will surprise no one who knows what goes on behind the doors of privately run detention centres, where some 2,000 asylum-seeking men, women and children are locked up and a level of despair prevails that rarely gets media attention. Anne Owers, the chief inspector of prisons, has uncovered human-rights abuses time and again in more than 40 reports into immigration detention. But she described her new report on Harmondsworth as "undoubtedly the poorest ... we have issued on an immigration removal centre". UK Detention Services, which runs the centre, recently rebranded itself as Kalyx...In Harmondsworth five people have killed themselves since 1989 - four since 2000...half the detainees she canvassed reported victimisation, and more than half said they felt unsafe...Nobody, besides Home Office officials, ministers and the companies themselves, knows what profits are made out of locking up asylum seekers...