THERE is a worrying decline in safety for immigration detainees, including survivors of torture, held in prison-like conditions at Yarl’s Wood, a damning report has found.

A recent inspection by the HM Inspectorate of Prisons at the immigration removal centre holding both men and women near Bedford found that 41 per cent of those held there felt unsafe at times.

There were more detainees and protests since the last inspection in 2017, and frustration was fuelled by cumulatively longer periods of detention without progress on immigration cases.