The Home Office is refusing to reveal how many detainees have been sexually assaulted or raped inside Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre in Bedfordshire in case the information becoming public knowledge harms the “commercial interests” of private companies that are involved in running it.
We also take a look at an archive story from 2013 that gives an horrific example of how private government funded prisons are treating vulnerable people.
Source: Pregnant woman who miscarried in privately run prison ‘was forced to clear up blood from cell floor
