Inspectors criticise children's incarceration at immigration removal centre / 24dash.com, 22 August 2008
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-08-22-Inspectors-criticise-childrens-incarceration-at-immigration-removal-centre
"Children are being incarcerated for too long at an immigration removal centre and becoming distressed and scared, prison inspectors said today. The average length of time children are being held at the Yarl's Wood centre in Bedfordshire has almost doubled from eight to 15 days in the last two years, an HM Inspectorate of Prison report found. The children being held were receiving "inadequate" education and had to little to do after school, said inspectors. Some families had been..."
Report on an announced inspection of Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre: 4-8 February 2008 /HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, August 2008
PDF - http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/inspect_reports/irc-inspections.html/544687/Yarls_Wood_2008.pdf?view=Binary