People who commit crimes are put in places like that. But these people haven't committed any crime. He was unfazed by the center administrator's assertions that the facility is appropriate for non-criminal asylum seekers. The center's detainees are locked in their dormitories 22-23 hours a day. In each, a uniformed guard keeps watch as they sleep, read, watch television, use the open-stall toilets, shower, take their meals and play board games to pass the time.
Detainees struggle to pull together documentation for their asylum cases.
To phone out, they must purchase expensive phone cards. The latter is a small courtyard with high walls and a metal link roof. A volleyball net and basketball hoop share the space with the center's generator. In the name of God, let's open our arms and treat these people as human beings. Some, unsuccessful, are deported immediately.