Another dying man had been taken in handcuffs from his Harmondsworth cell for treatment in hospital. He stayed cuffed while sedated, stayed cuffed while undergoing an angioplasty. Eventually the handcuffs were removed. Seven hours later he was dead.
A shocking report on Harmondsworth, the British immigration lock-up run by GEO, America's second biggest prisons contractor. Who are the GEO Group and what do they stand for?
Harmondsworth
guards routinely subjected detainees to long periods of solitary confinement
without reason, the inspectors reported. Muslims were more likely than others to
be isolated.
Hunger
strikers were monitored excessively, and for reasons that had nothing to do with
their medical needs. Some were held regardless of clear medical grounds for
release.
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