Firm that ran criticised UK youth jail awarded contract for asylum centre

Exclusive: MTC, which ran Rainsbrook youth jail, now providing security at Manston asylum seekers' facility

A private prison firm that was criticised over dangerous conditions at a youth jail is now providing security at an asylum seekers' centre where Border Force staff have warned that overcrowding and assaults are creating a pressure cooker situation.

Management & Training Corporation (MTC) was repeatedly criticised by the regulator Ofsted over conditions at the Rainsbrook secure training centre, near Rugby, where children at young as 15 were locked up for more than 23 hours a day with no justifiable rationale" during the coronavirus pandemic.