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4 Mar 2015

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Corporate Watch

'It's gonna break': life in UK's biggest detention centre

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Secret filming reveals conditions inside Harmondsworth immigration detention centre for the first time, where hundreds of people face deportation. The footage was shot by a detainee and obtained by Corporate Watch as part of a five month investigation into Mitie, the outsourcing firm that took over Harmondsworth in September 2014 under a multi-million pound Home Office contract. The videos...reveal:Home Office staff admitting that conditions in Harmondsworth are “shit”...Detainees living in unhygienic conditions with pigeons flying around inside, overflowing drains, rotting food in the kitchen and bed bugs in their cells...A detainee suffering injuries from what appear to be epileptic fits.