Yarl's Wood has caused controversy since it was opened in 2001. The immigration removal centre has been criticised for its treatment of female detainees before, but it is now a "place of national ...

Women held in detention at the notorious Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre say they are treated like “animals”, according to a hard-hitting report which outlines allegations of routine ...

Yarl’s Wood, which holds nearly 400 detainees, is the UK’s most secretive immigration detention centre. It has been plagued by damning accusations about the behaviour of guards since it opened ...

A Group 4 security officer walks down one of the corridors of Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre, Europe's largest detention centre for illegal immigrants, in Bedford January 17, 2002.

UK Immigration Removal Centre A Place of 'National Concern': Report. Published Aug 13, 2015 at 6:27 AM EDT Updated May 16, 2017 at 11:16 AM EDT. By Felicity Capon . Reporter. FOLLOW. Share.

Over 40 women in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre have gone on hunger strike protesting against a charter flight (Tues 27 Nov) that will take traumatised women back to Nigeria. Content note: ...

Conditions have deteriorated at an immigration removal centre to such an extent that it is a "place of national concern", the prisons watchdog says. Nick Hardwick, chief prisons inspector, said ...

Yarl's Wood is mainly used to hold pregnant women, foreign criminals and the mentally ill. Related articles Tory minister admits that Britain NEEDS to claw back powers from EU to control immigration ...

Dozens of detainees have gone on hunger strike at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre to call for the release of the wife of a man who died of there on Monday.