Women Asylum Seekers' Despair Behind Bars

The report, called Detained, exposes previously unpublished Home Office figures that show 1,867 women were locked up in 2012 alone. Over half the women reported suicidal thoughts with one in five saying they had tried to kill themselves. Most of the women were in Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre. Miriam - who fled the Democratic Republic of Congo after being kidnapped, tortured and raped by Government soldiers - told Sky News that she could not understand why she was being placed in a "prison".

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