Whitehead Detention Centre

20 Jun 1997

Ten Correctional Services Department officers were injured when their lorry mounted a kerb at Whitehead Detention Centre.

10:50PM

Escape triggers appeal for early closure of camp

19 Apr 1997

Residents have urged the Whitehead detention centre be closed early after six men used a bed to clamber over 13-metre fences and escaped yesterday.

Police are still searching for...

5:07PM

Scalding row

17 May 1995

A 29-YEAR-OLD Vietnamese man suffered serious burns after having boiling water poured over him in a dispute with his wife in Whitehead Detention Centre.

3:39PM

Attack on Vietnamese

23 Dec 1994

TWO Vietnamese men were attacked by a group armed with knives in the Whitehead Detention Centre last night. Officers only became aware of the attack when the two injured men were carried out of a...

1:39PM

Safeguard

26 Apr 1994

IN the light of the April 7 police raid on Whitehead Detention Centre it seems even more necessary for the Government to establish a commission to protect the human rights of everyone living in...

4:38AM

So negative

14 Apr 1994

I CONGRATULATE the Commissioner for Correctional Services Mr Eric McCosh on the successful completion of his operation at Whitehead Detention Centre on the morning of April 7.

4:57PM

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Vietnamese killed

A VIETNAMESE was killed and another injured in a fight inside the Whitehead Detention Centre in Sha Tin last night.

Correctional Services Department officers spotted five men...

10:31PM

Viets on trial for murder

TWO young Vietnamese men fatally stabbed a fellow camp inmate and seriously wounded another, the High Court heard yesterday.

12:14PM

Workers' concern over camp protest

PROTESTS against relocation by some 4,000 boat people in Whitehead Detention Centre this week could result in tragedy unless the Government diffuses residents' fears, camp workers have warned.

11:46PM

Woman saved

A VIETNAMESE woman was last night in a critical condition after she was found hanging from a rope in the Whitehead Detention Centre.

The 43-year-old woman was discovered in Section...

12:51AM