At the time of the Australian Human Rights Commission\u2019s inspections, the longest continuous detention in a hotel was 634 days<\/p>
The Australian government\u2019s use of city hotels as ad hoc immigration detention centres \u2013 including confining people for nearly two years \u2013 has \u201cdevastating impacts on people\u2019s mental and physical health\u201d, the Australian Human Rights Commission has found.<\/p>
In a report published on Wednesday morning, the commission argued that the use of hotels to incarcerate people remained a \u201cregularised\u201d part of Australia\u2019s immigration infrastructure, rather than a measure of last resort, even though the number of people detained \u2013 and the length of their detention \u2013 has steadily decreased.<\/p>
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