Immigration detainees mount legal challenge over £1-an-hour work

Immigration detainees have launched a legal challenge over a Home Office rule that forces them to work for £1 an hour.People in immigration detention completed up to 880,000 hours of paid work in 2016-17, with inmates employed as cleaners, interpreters, library assistants, kitchen assistants and barbers, among other roles.The "vast majority" of the work is paid at £1 per hour, according to Duncan Lewis solicitors, which has issued judicial review proceedings to challenge a Home Offic