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Phil Miller: /* 2014 Mitie */

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2014 Mitie

Phil Miller: /* 2009-2014 Geo Group */

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Phil Miller at 12:33, 1 December 2015

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Phil Miller at 12:32, 1 December 2015

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Phil Miller: /* 2009-2014 Geo Group */

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Phil Miller: /* 2012 deaths of two men */

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2012 deaths of two men

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	In November 2006, a major riot took place at Harmondsworth, after the chief inspector of prisons issued her "poorest ever" report on a detention centre.		In November 2006, a major riot took place at Harmondsworth, after the chief inspector of prisons issued her "poorest ever" report on a detention centre.
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		+	Four men were put on trial for conspiracy to commit violent disorder. The men became known as the Harmondsworth 4 by their defence campaign. In February 2008, a jury at Southwark Crown Court found them not guilty. "At the end of the trial the judge commented that ‘one might feel sympathy’ for people detained in immigration detention centres", according to the Institute of Race Relations.<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/campaigners-celebrate-acquittal-of-harmondsworth-4/ Campaigners celebrate acquittal of Harmondsworth 4], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 8 May 2014</ref>

	In December 2006, Kalyx was fined £5,096,000 by the Home Office for performance failures.		In December 2006, Kalyx was fined £5,096,000 by the Home Office for performance failures.

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 In September 2014 [[Mitie Care and Custody]] took over running Harmondsworth. Most of the company's senior management had worked for the [[Geo Group UK]] previously.
-===2015 secret filming===
+===2015 secret filming and hunger strike===
 <youtube size="medium" align="right" caption="Inside Harmondsworth: 'I don't want to die in here', Channel 4 News ">0W3pV9YcdIE</youtube>
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 * Mitie guards selling counterfeit clothes to detainees that had been confiscated at customs by the UK Border Force.
 ==Notes==

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 ==2009-2014 Geo Group==
-The [[Geo Group]] ran Harmondsworth from 2009 to 2014, in which time they expanded the size of the centre.
+The [[Geo Group UK]] ran Harmondsworth from 2009 to 2014, in which time they expanded the size of the centre.
 ===2011 deaths of three men shortly after leaving Harmondsworth===

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 ==2014 Mitie==
-In September 2014 [[Mitie Care and Custody]] took over running Harmondsworth. Most of the company's senior management had worked for the [[Geo Group]] previously.
+In September 2014 [[Mitie Care and Custody]] took over running Harmondsworth. Most of the company's senior management had worked for the [[Geo Group UK]] previously.
 ===2015 secret filming===
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 * Mitie guards selling counterfeit clothes to detainees that had been confiscated at customs by the UK Border Force.
 ==Notes==

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 ===2015 secret filming===
 In March, Corporate Watch and Channel 4 News released secret filming showing conditions inside Harmondsworth.<ref>[https://corporatewatch.org/news/2015/mar/04/harmondsworth-immigration-detention-centre-secret-filming-mitie 'It's gonna break': life in UK's biggest detention centre], Corporate Watch, 4 March 2015</ref> The videos revealed:
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 * Mitie guards selling counterfeit clothes to detainees that had been confiscated at customs by the UK Border Force.

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	===2014 inspection===		===2014 inspection===
		+	In January the chief inspector of prisons, Nick Hardwick, published a critical report of Harmondsworth. He referred to the deaths of Mr Dvorzak and Mr Chowdhury as "shocking cases where a sense of humanity was lost". Hardwick said: "These were truly shocking cases, and they weren't isolated, and they reflected a culture where too often the individual human needs of the people who were being held were simply being forgotten. And in the worst case, this frail, elderly Canadian gentleman with dementia died in the most undignified and disgraceful circumstances possible."<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25749685 Immigration detainee 'died in handcuffs'], BBC, 20 January 2014</ref>
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		+	The report said Harmondsworth felt in "a state of drift", with doubts about its future management.
		+	"The centre did not seem to be progressing and some services were being poorly managed," he said. "Most importantly, there needed to be a refocusing on individual needs of the most vulnerable people in detention, some of whom had been utterly failed by the system."

	==2014 Mitie==		==2014 Mitie==

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 On 30 October 2012, Prince Kwabena Fosu, "a 31-year-old Ghanaian detainee was found dead at Harmondsworth (run by the GEO Group Ltd). Other people detained at the centre issued a statement following the death that made a number of serious allegations about what happened to Prince Ofosu and about the poor treatment of others at the centre. They alleged that guards at the centre restrained Prince while in the ‘block’ (segregation unit) and that he had been held naked in his unheated cell."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 8 May 2014</ref>
-On 17 November 2012, Mr Chowdhury "died in hospital having been there for several days. He was placed in intensive care during the evening of 16 November and was only at that point released from detention at Harmondsworth. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) decided not to investigate this death because of ‘insufficient staff resources’."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 7 December 2006</ref> The Home Office Professional Standards Unit investigated and produced an internal report, which HMIP described as "critical".
+On 17 November 2012, Mr Chowdhury "died in hospital having been there for several days. He was placed in intensive care during the evening of 16 November and was only at that point released from detention at Harmondsworth. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) decided not to investigate this death because of ‘insufficient staff resources’."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 8 May 2014</ref> The Home Office Professional Standards Unit investigated and produced an internal report, which HMIP described as "critical".
 ===2013 death of Alois Dvorzak===

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 ===1989 death of Siho Iyugiven===
-On 5 October 1989, Siho Iyugiven, "a 27-year-old Kurdish refugee burned to death after barricading himself in his cell at Harmondsworth. His asylum claim had failed and he was facing deportation. He and his cellmate went on hunger strike, barricaded themselves in and set bedding alight as a protest. Smoke detectors were not working, few fire extinguishers worked and there were no sprinklers. An inquest recorded a misadventure verdict", according to the Institute of Race Relations.<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 7 December 2006</ref>
+On 5 October 1989, Siho Iyugiven, "a 27-year-old Kurdish refugee burned to death after barricading himself in his cell at Harmondsworth. His asylum claim had failed and he was facing deportation. He and his cellmate went on hunger strike, barricaded themselves in and set bedding alight as a protest. Smoke detectors were not working, few fire extinguishers worked and there were no sprinklers. An inquest recorded a misadventure verdict", according to the Institute of Race Relations.<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 8 May 2014</ref>
 ===1990 death of Kimpua Nsimba===
-On 15 June 1990, Kimpua Nsimba, "a 24-year-old Zairean man was found hanged in Harmondsworth, where he was detained because the Home Office could not find an interpreter. No one had spoken to him since his arrival over four days earlier. An inquest recorded a suicide verdict."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 7 December 2006</ref>
+On 15 June 1990, Kimpua Nsimba, "a 24-year-old Zairean man was found hanged in Harmondsworth, where he was detained because the Home Office could not find an interpreter. No one had spoken to him since his arrival over four days earlier. An inquest recorded a suicide verdict."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 8 May 2014</ref>
 ==1999-2001 Burns International==
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 ===2000 death of Robertas Grabys===
-On 4 January 2000, Robertas Grabys, "a 49-year-old Lithuanian was was found hanged in Harmondsworth on the day he was due to be deported. A report on his death criticised the company that was in charge of Harmondsworth at the time (Burns International). An internal Home Office inquiry found that the company did not have a formal policy to prevent suicides and that there was insufficient care. (His body was not found for over one hour as guards did not check the room, although he was known to suffer from a depressive illness.) An inquest recorded an open verdict."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 7 December 2006</ref>
+On 4 January 2000, Robertas Grabys, "a 49-year-old Lithuanian was was found hanged in Harmondsworth on the day he was due to be deported. A report on his death criticised the company that was in charge of Harmondsworth at the time (Burns International). An internal Home Office inquiry found that the company did not have a formal policy to prevent suicides and that there was insufficient care. (His body was not found for over one hour as guards did not check the room, although he was known to suffer from a depressive illness.) An inquest recorded an open verdict."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 8 May 2014</ref>
 ==2001-2006 UK Detention Services==
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 In a report that came out in March 2003, the prisons inspectorate expressed “deep concern” about detainees with mental health problems being held at Harmondsworth.<ref>Annual Inspectors Report, March 2003, p12. www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs2/imbharmondsworthb2002.pdf viewed 25/08/03</ref>
-On 7 May 2003, Olga Blaskevica, "a 29-year-old Latvian woman was murdered in the family holding area at Harmondsworth by her mentally ill partner, hours before the pair were due to be deported. In June 2004, Olegs Pavlos denied murder but admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He was found to be suffering from paranoid schizophrenia."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 7 December 2006</ref>
+On 7 May 2003, Olga Blaskevica, "a 29-year-old Latvian woman was murdered in the family holding area at Harmondsworth by her mentally ill partner, hours before the pair were due to be deported. In June 2004, Olegs Pavlos denied murder but admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He was found to be suffering from paranoid schizophrenia."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 8 May 2014</ref>
 An inspection of Harmondsworth made by the Chief Inspector of Prisons in September 2003 said that:
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 ===2004 death of Sergey Baranyuk and uprising===
-On 19 July 2004, a 31-year-old Ukrainian asylum-seeker Sergey Baranyuk was found hanged in a shower room at Harmondsworth. According to the Institute of Race Relations, "Staff at the centre and immigration staff had very little contact with him in the two months that he was held in detention. He had been assigned to the fast-track system and detained with no information for over six weeks despite having agreed to voluntary return three days after submitting his asylum claim. The inquest jury recorded a verdict that he ‘took his own life’. The PPO [Prisons and Probation Ombudsman] described the circumstances of his death as ‘sad and shameful’."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 7 December 2006</ref> His death sparked a night of disturbances at the centre and all of the detainees were transferred out of the damaged centre.<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/sergey-baranyuk-forgotten-at-harmondsworth/ Sergey Baranyuk forgotten at Harmondsworth], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 7 December 2006</ref>
+On 19 July 2004, a 31-year-old Ukrainian asylum-seeker Sergey Baranyuk was found hanged in a shower room at Harmondsworth. According to the Institute of Race Relations, "Staff at the centre and immigration staff had very little contact with him in the two months that he was held in detention. He had been assigned to the fast-track system and detained with no information for over six weeks despite having agreed to voluntary return three days after submitting his asylum claim. The inquest jury recorded a verdict that he ‘took his own life’. The PPO [Prisons and Probation Ombudsman] described the circumstances of his death as ‘sad and shameful’."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 8 May 2014</ref> His death sparked a night of disturbances at the centre and all of the detainees were transferred out of the damaged centre.<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/sergey-baranyuk-forgotten-at-harmondsworth/ Sergey Baranyuk forgotten at Harmondsworth], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 7 December 2006</ref>
 ==2006-2009 Kalyx==
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 ===2006 death of Bereket Yohannes, inspection, riot and fine===
-On 19 January 2006, Bereket Yohannes, "a 26-year-old Eritrean was found hanged in a shower block at Harmondsworth (run by UK Detention Services – UKDS). According to other detainees at the centre, he was fearful of deportation to Italy and found conditions at Harmondsworth ‘unbearable’. An inquest in March 2007 was told how he had previously tried to take his own life while he was held at Dover immigration removal centre a month prior to his death. The inquest jury found that he took his own life."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 7 December 2006</ref>
+On 19 January 2006, Bereket Yohannes, "a 26-year-old Eritrean was found hanged in a shower block at Harmondsworth (run by UK Detention Services – UKDS). According to other detainees at the centre, he was fearful of deportation to Italy and found conditions at Harmondsworth ‘unbearable’. An inquest in March 2007 was told how he had previously tried to take his own life while he was held at Dover immigration removal centre a month prior to his death. The inquest jury found that he took his own life."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 8 May 2014</ref>
 In November 2006, a major riot took place at Harmondsworth, after the chief inspector of prisons issued her "poorest ever" report on a detention centre.
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 ===2011 deaths of three men shortly after leaving Harmondsworth===
-On 2 July 2011, Muhammad Shukat, "a 47-year-old Pakistani man died after suffering a heart attack in Colnbrook (run by Serco). In May 2012, an inquest jury recorded a highly critical verdict that found that neglect contributed to his death. According to the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) report into his death, he was transferred from Brook House (near Gatwick) to Harmondsworth on 26 May. He was held at Harmondsworth for nearly a month, during which time he withdrew his claim for asylum and asked for assisted voluntary return. He was moved to Colnbrook on 29 June (at 1am) and died just a few days later. While he was held at Harmondsworth he made a complaint about the healthcare at the centre that was not followed up, staff at the healthcare unit also failed to obtain his medical records despite his written authorisation. These records ‘could have provided significant information that could have assisted healthcare staff [at Colnbrook] on the morning he died.’ The PPO made a number of recommendations following his investigation into Muhammad Shukat’s care at Harmondsworth, in relation to healthcare and the complaints process at Harmondsworth".<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 7 December 2006</ref>
+On 2 July 2011, Muhammad Shukat, "a 47-year-old Pakistani man died after suffering a heart attack in Colnbrook (run by Serco). In May 2012, an inquest jury recorded a highly critical verdict that found that neglect contributed to his death. According to the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) report into his death, he was transferred from Brook House (near Gatwick) to Harmondsworth on 26 May. He was held at Harmondsworth for nearly a month, during which time he withdrew his claim for asylum and asked for assisted voluntary return. He was moved to Colnbrook on 29 June (at 1am) and died just a few days later. While he was held at Harmondsworth he made a complaint about the healthcare at the centre that was not followed up, staff at the healthcare unit also failed to obtain his medical records despite his written authorisation. These records ‘could have provided significant information that could have assisted healthcare staff [at Colnbrook] on the morning he died.’ The PPO made a number of recommendations following his investigation into Muhammad Shukat’s care at Harmondsworth, in relation to healthcare and the complaints process at Harmondsworth".<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 8 May 2014</ref>
-On 31 July 2011, Brian Dalrymple, "a 31-year-old American man with significant health problems died in Colnbrook (run by Serco) a few days after being moved from Harmondsworth (which is next door to Colnbrook). In July 2014, and inquest jury recorded a verdict that Bran died of natural causes contributed to by neglect."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 7 December 2006</ref> The jury found that, “throughout Mr Dalrymple’s detention at Harmondsworth medical record keeping was shambolic” and said neglect contributed to his death. Geo made a “significant” settlement to the Dalrymple family.<ref>[https://corporatewatch.org/company-profiles/inquests GEO Group inquests], Corporate Watch</ref>
+On 31 July 2011, Brian Dalrymple, "a 31-year-old American man with significant health problems died in Colnbrook (run by Serco) a few days after being moved from Harmondsworth (which is next door to Colnbrook). In July 2014, and inquest jury recorded a verdict that Bran died of natural causes contributed to by neglect."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 8 May 2014</ref> The jury found that, “throughout Mr Dalrymple’s detention at Harmondsworth medical record keeping was shambolic” and said neglect contributed to his death. Geo made a “significant” settlement to the Dalrymple family.<ref>[https://corporatewatch.org/company-profiles/inquests GEO Group inquests], Corporate Watch</ref>
 On 6 December 2011, an unnamed homeless French man died in hospital after release from Harmondsworth. He died "after coughing up massive amounts of blood – as the result of a tuberculosis (TB) infection ... The PPO [Prisons and Probation Ombudsman] had concerns over the use of restraint when the man was admitted to hospital for the second time and that attempts were not made to assess the risk he posed or consideration of infection to staff. The report is critical of the UKBA and Harmondsworth staff (GEO Group Inc) for failing to find and inform the man’s family – this was left to French judicial authorities, although the man had given Harmondsworth staff contact details for his parents in France, and they were also contained in his passport, which was in the possession of the UKBA. Neither organisation showed any support for the family or made any effort to return the body or tell the family about financial assistance for that."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/insti tutional-indifference-in-life-and-death/ Institutional indifference in life and death], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 13 October 2013</ref>
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-On 30 October 2012, Prince Kwabena Fosu, "a 31-year-old Ghanaian detainee was found dead at Harmondsworth (run by the GEO Group Ltd). Other people detained at the centre issued a statement following the death that made a number of serious allegations about what happened to Prince Ofosu and about the poor treatment of others at the centre. They alleged that guards at the centre restrained Prince while in the ‘block’ (segregation unit) and that he had been held naked in his unheated cell."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 7 December 2006</ref>
+On 30 October 2012, Prince Kwabena Fosu, "a 31-year-old Ghanaian detainee was found dead at Harmondsworth (run by the GEO Group Ltd). Other people detained at the centre issued a statement following the death that made a number of serious allegations about what happened to Prince Ofosu and about the poor treatment of others at the centre. They alleged that guards at the centre restrained Prince while in the ‘block’ (segregation unit) and that he had been held naked in his unheated cell."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 8 May 2014</ref>
 On 17 November 2012, Mr Chowdhury "died in hospital having been there for several days. He was placed in intensive care during the evening of 16 November and was only at that point released from detention at Harmondsworth. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) decided not to investigate this death because of ‘insufficient staff resources’."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 7 December 2006</ref> The Home Office Professional Standards Unit investigated and produced an internal report, which HMIP described as "critical".
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	On 6 December 2011, an unnamed homeless French man died in hospital after release from Harmondsworth. He died "after coughing up massive amounts of blood – as the result of a tuberculosis (TB) infection ... The PPO [Prisons and Probation Ombudsman] had concerns over the use of restraint when the man was admitted to hospital for the second time and that attempts were not made to assess the risk he posed or consideration of infection to staff. The report is critical of the UKBA and Harmondsworth staff (GEO Group Inc) for failing to find and inform the man’s family – this was left to French judicial authorities, although the man had given Harmondsworth staff contact details for his parents in France, and they were also contained in his passport, which was in the possession of the UKBA. Neither organisation showed any support for the family or made any effort to return the body or tell the family about financial assistance for that."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/insti tutional-indifference-in-life-and-death/ Institutional indifference in life and death], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 13 October 2013</ref>		On 6 December 2011, an unnamed homeless French man died in hospital after release from Harmondsworth. He died "after coughing up massive amounts of blood – as the result of a tuberculosis (TB) infection ... The PPO [Prisons and Probation Ombudsman] had concerns over the use of restraint when the man was admitted to hospital for the second time and that attempts were not made to assess the risk he posed or consideration of infection to staff. The report is critical of the UKBA and Harmondsworth staff (GEO Group Inc) for failing to find and inform the man’s family – this was left to French judicial authorities, although the man had given Harmondsworth staff contact details for his parents in France, and they were also contained in his passport, which was in the possession of the UKBA. Neither organisation showed any support for the family or made any effort to return the body or tell the family about financial assistance for that."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/insti tutional-indifference-in-life-and-death/ Institutional indifference in life and death], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 13 October 2013</ref>
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		+	===2012 deaths of two men===
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		+	On 30 October 2012, Prince Kwabena Fosu, "a 31-year-old Ghanaian detainee was found dead at Harmondsworth (run by the GEO Group Ltd). Other people detained at the centre issued a statement following the death that made a number of serious allegations about what happened to Prince Ofosu and about the poor treatment of others at the centre. They alleged that guards at the centre restrained Prince while in the ‘block’ (segregation unit) and that he had been held naked in his unheated cell."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 7 December 2006</ref>
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		+	On 17 November 2012, Mr Chowdhury "died in hospital having been there for several days. He was placed in intensive care during the evening of 16 November and was only at that point released from detention at Harmondsworth. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) decided not to investigate this death because of ‘insufficient staff resources’."<ref>[http://www.irr.org.uk/news/deaths-in-immigration-detention-1989-2014/ Deaths in Immigration Detention], Harmit Athwal, IRR News, 7 December 2006</ref> The Home Office Professional Standards Unit investigated and produced an internal report, which HMIP described as "critical".

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