MORE than 1,000 people are expected to surround Yarl’s Wood women’s detention centre today in a bid to pressure government to shut such institutions altogether.

The Bedfordshire facility is one of 14 immigration jails in Britain holding up to 30,000 people.

Movement for Justice, whose members have organised eight coaches to go to the centre, argues that cases like that of 84-year-old Alois Dvorzac, who died while shackled by immigration officers, show the “brutal inhumanity” of detention.

Spokeswoman Antonia Bright said: “The time for talk is done.

“We demand that action is taken — bring in a 28-day time limit, as recommended by a recent parliamentary inquiry on victims of rape and trafficking. Shut down Yarl’s Wood.”