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Asian Network,27 mins

The Detained - Listen

Asian Network Reports

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Tens of thousands of people enter the UK's immigration detention centres every year. They house those the government wants to deport and it spends millions on them. Journalists are not allowed inside so reporter Catrin Nye spent 3 months speaking to men and women in different centres on the phone - each with their own stories of life in limbo.

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