Yarl's Wood RSTHF
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Yarl's Wood RSTHF

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Yarl's Wood Befrienders
SOAS Detainee Support
Yarl's Wood IRC
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Yarl's Wood IRC

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Location: Clapham, Bedfordshire

Capacity: 310 (Men)

Operated by: Serco

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Centre update:

  • Home Office has announced that an additional 58-bed space will be allocated as a standalone unit for women to be held under IRC conditions at Yarl's Wood IRC.
  • It also has a separate unit as RSTHF for 38 beds allocated for Men.

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Yarl's Wood Befrienders
SOAS Detainee Support
Tinsley House IRC
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Tinsley House IRC

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Location: Gatwick Airport

Capacity: 154 (119 men; family unit)

Operated by: G4S

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Visitor Groups

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group
Swinderby RSTHF
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Swinderby RSTHF

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Center update

In July 2021, Morton Hall IRC closed and was returned to the Ministry of Justice to re-open as a foreign-national-only prison in mid-2022.

Home Office has since then opened a Residential Short Term Holding Facility(RSTHF) on the site of, but entirely separate from, Morton Hall Prison, known as Swinderby RSTHF.

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Manchester RSTHF
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Manchester RSTHF

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Location: Manchester

Capacity: 35 (men and women)

Operated by:  Mitie

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Visitor Groups

Manchester Immigration Detainee Support Team (MIDST)
Larne House RSTHF
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Larne House RSTHF

RSTHF

Location: Larne, Northern Ireland

Capacity: 19 (men and women)

Operated by:  Mitie

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Larne House Visitors Group
Haslar IRC
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Haslar IRC

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Location: Gosport, Hampshire

Capacity: 170 (men only)

Operated by: HM Prison Service

HM Inspectorate of Prisons: Inspection Reports

Update:

Important Note(2023): Haslar was closed in 2015 under coalition government plans to reduce immigration detention spaces. The current government has announced plans to reopen this centre with significantly increased bed spaces, up to 600 beds(men only).

A local campaign currently underway to stop these plans to re-open the Haslar IRC, called 'No Detention No Haslar'. This is a grassroots campaign led by local residents with input and support from national organisations to challenge the government policy to expand immigration detention, the arbitrary use of administrative detention and the enormous public expenditure which such an expansion requires.

Read pre release from the group here:

Timeline: According to the Home Office, the estimated re-opening of this centre will be by late 2023, and the plan's first phase is currently underway.

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Harmondsworth IRC
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Harmondsworth IRC

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Location: West Drayton, Middlesex

Capacity: 615 (men only)

Operated by: Mitie

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Visitor Groups

Detention Action
Jesuit Refugee Service UK
SOAS Detainee Support
Dungavel
South Lanarkshire
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Dungavel

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South Lanarkshire

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Scottish Detainee Visitors
Derwentside IRC
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Derwentside IRC

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Location: Consett, Bedfordhire

Capacity: 80 (women only)

Operated by: Mitie

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Common Knowledge Office
E1 5QJ
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Common Knowledge Office

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Colnbrook IRC
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Colnbrook IRC

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Location: West Drayton, Middlesex (near Heathrow Airport)

Capacity: 420 (majority men; up to 8 women)

Operated by: Mitie

HM Inspectorate of Prisons: Inspection reports

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Visitor Groups

Detention Action
Jesuit Refugee Service UK
SOAS Detainee Support
Campsfield IRC
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Campsfield IRC

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Location: Kidlington, Oxfordshire

Capacity: 276 (men only)

Operated by: MITIE

HM Inspectorate of Prisons: Inspection reports

       Update

Important Notes (2023): AVID welcomed the decision by the government to close Campsfield IRC in 2018, and it became the fourth detention centre to close since 2015.

It was announced that on 28th June 2022 - Home Office had started the first stages of the procurement to operate a new IRC on the site of the former Campsfield House with a capacity of up to 400 beds for men.

There was considerable opposition against this plan, and a local MP Layla Moran urged the government to 'ditch the plan'. Oxford West and Abingdon MP Layla Moran secured an adjournment debate in the House of Commons on the reopening of Campsfield to which she is strongly opposed. Speaking after the debate Layla said: “I and my community have already fought hard for Campsfield House to be closed, and we are ready to fight to make sure it stays that way.”

A local campaign group called 'Keep Campsfield Close Coalition' was created to resist the reopening of this centre. Find out about their details here.

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Brook House
Gatwick
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Brook House

IRC

Gatwick

Perimeter Road South, London Gatwick Airport, Gatwick, RH6 0PQ

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Visitor Groups

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group