Image: Yarl's Wood protest, Darren Johnson/Flickr.
Last Friday, I visited people detained at Yarl’s Wood, where a protest against immigration detention, including a hunger strike, has been going on for a month. The seven women and one man were clear from the outset that uncertainty over how long they would be held “is a killer”.
One person said that prison is better because you know how long you will be there. They also described the trauma of detention. “We can’t go anywhere, do anything, we are constantly watched, we can’t access papers we need.”
