FACILITY NAMES
Location
Country: United Kingdom
City & Region: London Gatwick Airport, Gatwick, Europe
Latitude, Longitude: 51.1522168043, -0.1874542236
Contact Information
South London
Gatwick Airport Gatwick RH6 0PQ
UK Tel: 01293 566500 Tel: 01293 566559 (to arrange visits) Fax: 01293 566590
MANAGEMENT & BUDGET
Outsourced services and non-state actors
DETAINEES
SIZE & POPULATION
Capacity (specialised migration-related facility)
Reported Single-Day Migration Detainee Population at Facility (day)
LENGTH OF DETENTION
CONDITIONS
CARCERAL INDICATORS
SEGREGATION
COMMUNAL SPACE & ACTIVITIES
HEALTH
MONITORING & ACCESS
NEWS & TESTIMONY
2024
After an unannounced visit to the centre between 5–22 August 2024, the HM Inspectorate Prisons reported: "Violence and self-harm had risen since the last inspection, and an influx of ex-prisoners had created instability. Detainees were being held for longer which increased the level of need and frustration. Almost half of those surveyed said they had mental health problems and 35% said they had felt suicidal while at the centre, yet health care provision was inadequate. Not enough was being done to tackle the ingress of illicit drugs.
Points to note: There had been a drive to improve the range of activities. Welfare work remained good, but it was understaffed, and in the past year at least 20 detainees had been released homeless. An active Home Office team had increased its contact and communication with detainees."
Furthermore in the report, concerns regarding detention lengths were raised: "In the absence of a detention time limit,10 people had been held for over a year and one man for over 500 days, an unacceptably long time to keep people in administrative detention."
