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'I did not feel safe at Yarl's Wood'

Conditions have deteriorated at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre, in Bedfordshire, to such an extent that it is a "place of national concern", the prisons watchdog says.
Nick Hardwick, chief prisons inspector, said too many pregnant women were being held there without good reason.
A Home Office spokesman said it was "committed to treating all detainees with dignity and respect".
Leana Hosea met former detainee Sharmine Frank who is 26 weeks pregnant.

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