Home Office plan for women’s immigration centre faces legal challenge

Campaigners and MPs express concerns at proposals for new detention facility in Durham

A charity is challenging the planned opening of a new immigration detention centre for 80 women in County Durham - the Home Office's first new detention centre since 2014.

Women for Refugee Women, whose work includes advocating for women in immigration detention, challenges whether the Home Office is complying with equality rules in the development of the new detention centre.