Detention Forum

#HungerforFreedom – opening a new chapter in the history of challenging immigration detention? Today, we have heard that the hunger strike that started in Yarl’s Wood detention centre in Bedford a month ago ended. But the real news is that the strike itself will be continuing and that #HungerforFreedom has accelerated, intensified and expanded the […]

Collateral – A BBC drama shining a light on the secret world of indefinite immigration detention 15 March 2018 Immigration detention dramatised on TV? Sylvia Gauthereau, one of the Detention Forum volunteers, reviews a BBC drama, Collateral. Immigration detention featured quite centrally on the four-part series Collateral. Produced and shown by the BBC, it was broadcast […]

13 March 2018 Prison Inspectors yet again decry the lack of a time limit on immigration detention – Harmondsworth Large numbers of migrant men detained indefinitely in prison-like conditions at Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre were found to have mental health needs and were considered vulnerable by the Home Office, according to an inspection report published […]