The lack of consent is immeasurable in immigration detention. Often it is detention staff who know the diagnosis and speak directly to medical practitioners - not detainees. Detainees often do not know why they are ill or what medicines they are taking.
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Detainees are often not spoken to in their language - especially when off site accompanied by detention staff. Detainees make complaints but cannot actively participate in their care and are routinely refused care that will result in multiple trips offsite.
Knowledge & consent is doubly hard for parents WITH their children in detention. Parents often do not know why their children are not well, what their children are sick with, or what medicine they are taking. Parents cannot make informed decisions about their children's care.
Finally. Immigration detention is civil detention. It is not allowed to be punitive. But of course, it is. Under the guise of civil detention detainees are not permitted quick hearings, quick bond/bail hearings & are stripped of constitutional rights. It make it all so much worse
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