The Independent reports that the UK government has undertaken to pursue an investigation into physical and mental abuse of asylum-seekers in detention and upon removal by the staff of private security firms to which these functions have been outsourced. The piercing report – ‘Outsourcing Abuse: The use and misuse of state-sanctioned force during the detention and removal of asylum seekers’ – written in collaboration between a number of NGOs and solicitors firms working in the field of immigration and asylum law in the UK, revealed nearly 300 cases of alleged physical assault and racial abuse in the past four years…