Women in Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre have become increasingly desperate as repeated rounds of legal aid cuts introduced by the UK Government have made it more difficult for them to access justice.
On a suburban street in Leeds, security company G4S packs 23 women and children into one house with a single bathroom.
Successive governments have ignored and dismissed complaints of suffering in UK immigration lock-ups. This week, in Parliament and on national television, fresh evidence has been heard.
Abuse at Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre is finally mainstream news. When a woman died at Yarl’s Wood in 2014, a woman who knew her inside spoke by phone to Jennifer Allsopp.
For years women locked up inside Yarl’s Wood, a UK government lock-up in Bedfordshire, have complained of racist abuse, sexual abuse and shoddy medical treatment. Now there is video evidence. WATCH ‘INSIDE YARL’S WOOD’ CHANNEL 4 NEWS
The UK government makes it easy for the super-rich to harm their domestic employees. One small amendment to the Modern Slavery Bill could make a big difference, but ministers seem strangely reluctant.
The system of asylum in the UK pushes mental fortitude to its limits.
New report from HM Inspectorate of Prisons on Campsfield House, run by outsourcer Mitie, reveals:• 16 year old detained ‘by mistake’• Torture victims held in defiance of Home Office rules• Dirty, overcrowded accommodation
Tahir Mehmood, aged 43, died in a commercially-run immigration lockup at Manchester Airport. The Coroner recorded a verdict of death by natural causes. A report by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman tells a more troubling story.
Tahir Mehmood’s family stunned by poor quality of medical care when detainee complained of chest pains.
Coroner minded to make a ‘Report to Prevent Future Deaths’ in the case of Tahir Mehmood as medical care by UK government outsourcers comes under scrutiny at Inquest.
Another inquest, another death in UK immigration detention: the case of Tahir Mehmood. Phil Miller of Corporate Watch reports from the Coroner’s Court.
