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Guardian Focus Podcast: Indefinte detention of foreign prisoners

https://www.theguardian.com/world/audio/2011/feb/25/focus-podcast-indefinite-detention-foreign-prisoners

With no time limit on immigration detention, hundreds of people who can’t be deported are spending years locked up, with no idea when they will be released or sent home. Human rights lawyers say this breaches detainees’ human rights.

The Home Office says some people who spend long periods in detention refuse to cooperate with their own deportation. But as Harriet Grant discovered, the truth is less clear cut.