United Kingdom · East of England · Clapham, Bedford
Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre
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For families
How to send mail, money, and visit Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre
Step-by-step guidance using the United Kingdom system — addresses, money services, visit booking, what to bring on your first visit.
Gallery
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Immigration removal centre operated under contract to the Home Office. Holds detained men and women pending removal.
Capacity
410
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
2001
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
Serco
Population held
mixed
Opened
2001
Region
East of England
Security level
High
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
HMI Prisons publishes independent inspection reports on roughly a 3-5 year cycle.
Visiting
Booked online via the GOV.UK Prison Visits Booking system. Photo ID required. Visit frequency depends on the inmate's Incentives & Earned Privileges (IEP) level.
Mailing
Format: Prisoner Name & Number, Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre, Twinwoods Road, MK44 1FD. Cash not accepted — use Send Money to a Prisoner (GOV.UK).
Practical info
Assisted Prison Visits Unit helps low-income families with travel costs. Pact runs many of the on-site visitor centres.
Known issues
Subject of multiple HMIP and oversight reports highlighting concerns over the use of detention for women and torture survivors.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 10/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 3/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Privately operated under contract
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
- · Severe-conditions keyword in sources
Compared to other facilities in United Kingdom
583 peersHigher risk than 86% of peer facilities in United Kingdom.
Data completeness
94%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- GOV.UK — Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre
- HMI Prisons inspection reports
- Find a prison — GOV.UK — UK Ministry of Justice / HMPPS
- HM Inspectorate of Prisons — reports — HMI Prisons (UK)
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.