Below are the main verdicts for each of the centres, based on inspections carried out early last year.

Tinsley House, near Gatwick, West Sussex

• Essentially a safe place where detainees experienced a good standard of custodial care
• Detainees treated with respect and provided with adequate healthcare and chances to practise their religion
• Their security undermined because they could not easily find out about the progress of their case, receive help with welfare problems outside the centre or access specialist legal advice
• Detainees not well prepared for release or transfer

Haslar Immigration Removal Centre, Gosport, Hampshire

• Not enough help for detainees to settle or to provide them with an environment in which they were safe
• Staff were "disengaged" and the quality of the accommodation poor
• Lack of information about cases, restricted visiting times
• Random strip searches after visits

Oakington Reception Centre, Longstanton, Cambridgeshire

• Essentially a place of safety providing a high standard of custodial care
• Needs and dignity of detainees respected, apart from splitting of families during and after detention
• Access to on-site case information
• Could be more structured activities
• More preparation and notice needed for people leaving the centre

Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre, Kidlington, Oxfordshire

• Could not conclude it was a place of safety, "mainly because of poor levels of supervision and despite the best efforts of staff"
• Detainees treated with respect
• Blindness to welfare needs outside the centre
• Lack of information about cases or access to competent independent legal advice
• Good level of constructive activity
• Inadequate preparation for release, transfer or deportation

Lindholme Immigration Removal Centre, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire

• "Was not a healthy establishment for detainees"
• Fundamental and far-reaching changes needed to bring it up to the standard expected
• Not a place or safety, nor as secure environment as possible for people struggling to cope with indeterminate detention
• Difference between immigration detainees and prisoners not well enough appreciated
• Not enough ways of keeping in touch with the outside world and preparing for release, transfer or deportation.