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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