The Tablet has reported on the Jesuit Refugee Service's criticisms of refugee detention in the UK. According to 'After Brook House: continued abuse in immigration detention', patterns of mistreatment detailed by a high-profile independent inquiry into Brook House Immigration Removal Centre near Gatwick Airport eight months ago remain ongoing.

Key findings of the report indicate that detained refugees find that immigration detention feels like prison. They report deficiencies in healthcare provision, including failure to provide necessary medicine and claims that staff ignore medical emergencies. They say safeguards for vulnerable people are largely absent and where they exist do not work and that vulnerable people are routinely kept in detention.

Refugees report that force is used inappropriately and often gratuitously, against detained people. They claim there is a culture of abuse and humiliation within detention centres and in the practices of detaining people and moving detained people. Long and indefinite detention was found to be especially harmful.