Brook House immigration removal centre
- The design of Brook House and related issues are considered in detail in Chapter D.3 in Volume II. It opened in March 2009 as a 448-bed, male-only, purpose-built centre.
Figure 3: Generic floor plans of Brook House
Ground floor
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First floor
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Second Floor
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Source: CJS004587
- The reasons for detention at Brook House broadly fell into three categories:
- foreign nationals who had served a sentence in a UK prison, having been convicted of a criminal offence, and were due to be deported as a result (known as time served foreign national offenders or TSFNOs);1
- individuals whose applications for asylum had been rejected and others thought to have entered or remained in the UK illegally; and
- those whose applications for asylum were still being considered.