STEP STEP STEP 01 02 03 MANDATORY QUARANTINE IDENTIFICATION PRISON-LIKE STRUCTURE STEP 04 STEP 05 AFTER A NEGATIVE DECISION PRE-REMOVAL DETENTION Section 2: Surveillance and Restriction of Liberty and Freedom of Movement The following section aims to demonstrate that the security infrastructure and operation of the CCAC which includes the control of everyday life and measures that restrict residents’ freedom of movement, cumulate to create a "prison-like" environment in the CCAC, which is felt irrespective of whether someone is legally subjected to a detention order. This, combined with the fact that non-detained residents are accommodated alongside those who are detained creates a "precarity for removal" where people are reminded that they can be detained or punished at any moment and acts as a reminder that the authorities are in control. This is confirmed by I Have Rights’ beneficiaries who often express that they feel they are being punished due to their treatment in the highly securitised and prison-like structure of the CCAC. By referring to the CCAC as a ‘prison-like’ structure or environment, this report seeks to describe the material infrastructure and the pervasive social control which the authorities assume. Importantly, this description does not seek to normalise or justify the arbitrary detention or inhuman and degrading treatment of people incarcerated in formal prisons. The monotonous appearance of the CCAC, constant surveillance and geographical isolation mimic the dehumanising architecture of prisons. The social life of people is under near-constant observation and governed by the rules of the CCAC. Failure to adhere to the social and bureaucratic rules leads to penalisation. Throughout this report, we show how the authorities remind individuals that their mobility remains in the control of the CCAC officials. However, the effective control which the authorities assume in the CCAC equally creates a positive obligation to ensure that applicants are treated with full respect for human dignity and are not at risk of inhuman or degrading treatment. Upon opening the facility, the EU Department of Migration and Home Affairs stated that the modern security system and fencing was "to ensure ____ Page 17