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Life ‘better at Yarl’s Wood after demos’
Hundreds-strong protests prompt better treatment
A YARL’S WOOD detainee revealed yesterday how treatment by officers had improved since a campaign to shut the detention centre started.
Juliet Akao’s comments followed a hundreds-strong protest outside the infamous all-female “immigration removal centre” on Saturday, in which an outer ring of wire fencing surrounding the jail was torn down by human-rights campaigners. “The treatment is better, and even the way [the staff] are behaving towards us is better,” Ms Akao told the Star.
The protest, organised by campaigns such as Liberty and Movement for Justice (MFJ), “felt very supportive” to detainees.
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