Shut Down Yarl's Wood 14
Yarl's Wood immigration prison, Bedford. Sat 21 Jul 2018
The track turns round at the end of the next field, and we can already
hear some of the women in the prison shouting a welcome.
People cross another ditch to go into the final field,
which leads to a gate into the field beside the detention centre
The field rises from the 20 foot fence, and from it we can see the
windows where some of the women inside
have gathered. The guards inside try to keep the women away from these
windows, locking doors and putting
on alternative events such as fashion shows on the other side of the
prison. Today it was very hot, and because
the windows open only a very narrow slit, even hotter inside Yarls
Wood. The guards were offering free ice creams
to entice the women away from the windows facing the protesters. But
there wre still people there, waving back
at the protesters on the hill facing them.
Some waved items of clothing
and others put up notices calling for help, and for Yarl's Wood to
be closed down
'They giving us pigs food'
Kicking the fence makes a good noise for when people are not speaking
and there was a lot of noisy chanting from outside the immigration
jail.
I climbed briefly to the top of a ladder the protesters had brought
and took a few photographs with my camera
lens against the wire. My lenses are all too large to poke through
the fence
Standing well back up the hill gives a clear viw of the first floor
windows
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