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How does a woman prove that she is worthy of an opportunity to get on with her life, to live it to the fullest, in the way that she chooses? That is the question I came away with, leaving Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (YWIRC), having visited women detainees.
I have never been to Bedford for any other reason, than to visit detainees or to protest on the outside of a three-to-four-meter-high wall, at a series of Movement for Justice organised demonstrations. Each time, our demands were to “Shut it down!” because Yarl’s Wood, and the nine other privately run detention centres across the United Kingdom, are places that inhumanely hold people for indefinite lengths of time.
