Detention Forum statement – the death at Morton Hall detention centre 16 January 2017 We are saddened by yet another death in immigration detention last week in Morton Hall detention centre in Lincolnshire.  It has been reported by the Guardian newspaper that a young detained Polish man took his own life, leaving his baby and his partner behind.  […]

Unlocking Detention 2016 ended, but our work continues  5 Jan 2017 A long three-month marathon of #unlocked16 ended on International Migrants Day, 18 December 2016.  The Detention Forum’s flagship project, Unlocking Detention, is a virtual tour of the UK’s detention estate.  This project started in 2014, and this was our third tour.  This year’s tour […]

18 August 2016 In Stephen Shaw’s substantive review of detention earlier this year, it did not go unnoticed that the scale of immigration detention in the UK had increased without any strategic plan, or statement of purpose. He commented that ‘the use of detention is determined on a direct one to one basis by the […]