Border Force Union Joins Legal Action Over Conditions At Manston Asylum Manston Asylum Centre
The Civil and Commercial Services union, the UK’s largest civil servant union, includes Border Force staff, law enforcement officers and officials who make decisions about whether to hold small boat arrivals among its members. The union is joining legal action brought by the charity Detention Action and a woman who was placed at Manston, where small boat arrivals are initially processed. Detainees are only supposed to be held at the center for 24 hours and the facility has a maximum capacity of 1,600....