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Prozac's Migration System: A Case Study
"The story of a sick, confused 84 year old, who died in custody following detention at Harmondsworth, highlights the cruelty of our inhumane immegration system" -Cole Moreton.

Alois Dvorzac had taken a plane from Canada to Gatwick to visit his daughter in Slovenia, his birth country in January of 2013. Upon arrival he could not provide officials with her married name, phone number or address, which he was planning on obtaining form a friend in Austria on his train ride to Slovenia. That was all it took for officials to lock him in a holding cell in Harmondsworth Dentention Centre while arranging to send him back to Canada against his will. He had been held in shackles for five hours when he began having chest pains and was taken to the hospital like a murderer in handcuffs between two officers. After 20 short minutes, when a nurse removed his chains in an effort to
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His body was never claimed and he was cremated, the verdict was death by natural causes, however the jury had found 'failings in the way he was treated'. "It is a tragic indictment of the system that such a frail and vulnerable man should have spent his final days in prison like conditions of an immigration removal centre" "It is particularly shameful that he should have spent his last hours chained to a custody officer without justification, and the Home Office needs to ensure such a situation cannot reoccur"-the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, Nigel Newcomen. In the late 70s, these detention centers were set up just for this purpose, a 'holding point' thought to be more suitable than prison for people while applications are processed for them to be sent back to where they came from. They are really no different then prison by the treatment of

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