Return to Yarl’s Wood ( this time as a visitor)

Going to Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre as a visitor rather than a detainee was a very strange and disturbing experience and to be honest I have found it very difficult to write about.

I have been detained three times and I suppose, even though I have been given Leave to Remain, there is part of me that feels I might be taken back in there at any moment – that they might say “Oh we have made a mistake – you have to come back inside” . So when I saw the place again my mind and body started to respond fearfully and at certain points it seemed that there was very little I could do to control it.>>

http://womenforrefugeewomen.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/return-to-yarls-wood-this-time-as-a-visitor/

 Last visited someone here about 5 years ago,horrible place,horrible experience-very frightening for those locked up and as it says in the report terrible if you have suffered sexual violence from men in uniform...