UK detention estate - capacity April 2008
There is at present capacity for 2,569, persons in the UK Detention
Estate, in places listed below. Yarl's Wood has 232, and Tinsley
House 32 family detention spaces,
There are a considerable number of: asylum seekers/immigration
defaulters held in UK prisons for indefinite periods, figures are
not included in the detention estate.
There are also considerable number of asylum seekers/immigration
defaulters who are held in police cells for up to seven days before
being transferred to the detention estate or remanded to prison.
However no figures for these people are available.
| Detention Estate: ImmigrationRemoval Centres/Short
term Holding centres:
All run under "Detention Centre
Rules" |
| Campsfield IRC |
215 (to be increased to 292) |
| Colnbrook IRC |
313 (40 male or female STH) |
| Dover IRC (Prison) |
316 |
| Dover Harbour STH |
20 |
| Dungavel IRC |
188 |
| Harwich STH |
12 |
| Haslar IRC (Prison) |
160 (to be increased to 300) |
| Kalyx IRC (AKA Harmondsworth) |
259 (to be increased to 459) |
| Lindholme IRC (Prison) |
112 |
| Manchester Airport IRC |
16 |
| Oakington IRC |
352 |
| Queens buildings |
15 |
| Tinsley House IRC |
146 |
| Yarl's Wood IRC |
405 |
| Brook House |
Under construction, will have 426 male and female detention
bedspaces |
( Tinsley House/Oakington/Manchester Airport - Managed by Global
Solutions Limited - owned by Englefield Capital and Electra Partners
Europe)
( Yarl's Wood/ Colnbrook/Queens buildings- Managed by Premier
Detention Services a subsidiary of Premier Custodial Group - owned
by Serco)
(Dungavel - managed by G4S Justice Services)
(Campsfield - managed by The GEO Group UK LTD)
(Kalyx/Harmondsworth - managed by UKDS - owned by SODEXO
(Harwich, managed by Abbey Security Ltd)
(Dover Harbour, managed by Dover Harbour Board)
(Dover/Lindholme/Haslar, owned by the Government, Managed by the
Prison Service, run under "Detention Centre Rules")
Anne Owers, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons for England
and Wales, has released a series of damning reports on the UK's
detention estate. The reports on Haslar, Campsfield, Dungavel,
Harmondsworth, Lindholme, Oakington,Tinsley House, Yarl's Wood,
can be found @
http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/inspect_reports/irc-inspections.html/
Detainees held in prisons
Data on detainees, held in prisons of which there are a considerable
number, is no longer readily available or accessible due to changes
in Home Office policy.
Removal Centres: Management is contracted to private companies
and staffed by civilians.
Removal Prisons: Management is contracted
to the Prison Service and staffed by prison officers, who are no
longer called prison officers. They have been regraded but no one
at the moment seems to know what to. Some of the officers are still
members of the 'Prison Officers Association" (POA).
The holding of detainees at the notorious Lindholme prison
is to be phased out as soon as spaces become available in the IND
detention estate.
Figures/information,
compiled by NCADC from IND
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