Category: Immigration removal centres

To coincide with international migrants’ day, the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) is publishing its 2022 national annual report for the immigration detention estate (IDE). This provides a comprehensive overview of key themes and trends across the IDE throughout the year.

The remote location of Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre is unsuitable, and leads to unfair and, in some respects, inhumane treatment of the women held there, many of whom are vulnerable and may have experience of trafficking.

Conditions for migrants detained on the Kent coast after arriving in small boats remain very poor despite Home Office assurances that they would make significant improvements, according to prisons inspectors and independent monitors.