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Albanians willing to be repatriated detained for weeks in UK, watchdog finds

HM chief inspector of prisons says detainees held unnecessarily despite volunteering for fast-track deportation

Albanians volunteering to be repatriated under a fast-track deportation deal are being detained unnecessarily for several weeks at taxpayers’ expense, the prisons watchdog has found.

HM chief inspector of prisons also found that staff did not know about the vulnerabilities of detainees held in deportation centres before being removed to Tirana, and some were not being given privacy while using the lavatory.

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