But for several reasons, the UK has struggled to do this. In 2006, it was revealed that some 1,013 foreign national prisoners ...

Private contractors are taking hundreds of millions of pounds from a system riddled with abuse, suicide and criminality, ...

Hadush Kebatu was set free from HMP Chelmsford in error on Friday four weeks after being sentenced for sexually assaulting a ...

Britain will house up to 900 asylum seekers at two military bases, the government said on Tuesday, as public anger rises over ...

Most asylum seekers are placed in privately managed houses, flats or rooms in properties of multiple occupancy.

Hadush Kebatu - an Ethiopian who arrived in the UK on a small boat - was re-arrested on Sunday, after being accidentally ...

Hadush Kebatu has been found in Finsbury Park after a two-day manhunt following his erroneous release from HMP Chelmsford.

Hadush Kebatu's crimes led to protests in Epping, Essex, and eventually outside hotels housing asylum seekers across the country.

Hadush Kebatu is believed to have "access to funds" and to have sought assistance from members of the public both in London ...

An asylum seeker accidentally released from prison was last seen in the “London area” as police urge anyone who spots him to call 999 immediately. Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, ...

The manhunt is continuing for an asylum seeker who was accidentally released from where he was serving time for sexually ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Bowing to pressure to reform the refugee convention and asylum system would be a "catastrophic error", the head of the UN agency for refugees said on Monday. The comments by UNHCR ...