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| | Guardian | Jails get ready to house asylum seekers |
 | | The prisons involved, Belmarsh, Blundeston, Highdown, Holme House, Lincoln, Liverpool, Wandsworth and Winchester, will be expected each to hold about 50 immigration detainees alongside inmates on remand, despite a long-standing Home Office policy aimed at reducing the number of asylum seekers held in jails. |
 | | The prison service said yesterday the extra places were in addition to the 900 detainees already held in purpose-built immigration detention centres at Campsfield House near Oxford, Tinsley House at Gatwick airport and at Harmondsworth near Heathrow. |
 | | The official confirmation came as new figures show that a record number of asylum applications are expected to be made in Britain this year, despite the move to a system of dispersal outside London and support provided through vouchers instead of cash. |
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