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Punishing vulnerable detainees is unacceptable.
The report, which has been passed to the Guardian, raises fundamental questions about the treatment of ill and vulnerable detainees.
But Medical Justice, the charity that sends independent doctors to examine women inside Yarl's Wood, says: "We are deeply concerned about the failures by detention centre healthcare units to identify vulnerable detainees, whose health is likely to deteriorate in detention.
"The study points to alarming failures in the care of vulnerable detainees suffering from mental health, drug and alcohol problems, many of whom should have been diverted from police custody," said its co-director, Deborah Coles.
Dr Peter Young, formerly the chief psychiatrist responsible for the care of asylum seekers in detention on Manus and Nauru, described the camps as "inherently toxic" and said the immigration department deliberately harmed vulnerable detainees in a process akin to torture.
Previously, the chief psychiatrist responsible for the care of asylum seekers in detention on Manus and Nauru, Dr Peter Young, said the camps were "inherently toxic" and that the immigration department deliberately harmed vulnerable detainees in a process akin to torture.
The whistleblower also claimed that another alleged case of sexual assault by a Serco member of staff occurred in August 2012, involving a particularly vulnerable detainee with profound psychological issues.
In 2014, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson released guidelines on how to deal with particularly vulnerable detainee populations.
Former inmates have described a culture at the centre where vulnerable women detainees would have sex with guards and flirt with them in the hope of obtaining favourable treatment.
"They sought to render the detainees vulnerable — to break down all of their senses.
Compared with the stringent checks on seclusion used in mental health facilities, the absence of similar protections leaves detainees vulnerable and without recourse.
