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November 15, 2017

Latest Yarl’s Wood inspection report calls for a “strict time limit on the length of detention”

Today, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons have released their report on their most recent independent and unannounced inspection of Yarl’s Wood detention centre. The centre was last inspected in 2015. This inspection showed some improvements in conditions for the 300 people held there (mostly women, but also also adult family groups and small number of […]

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October 10, 2017

The closure of the Verne detention centre – our response

10 October 2017 In a letter to key stakeholders, the Home Office has today announced the closure of The Verne Immigration Removal Centre.  It is understood that the centre will be closed at the end of 2017 as ‘part of wider operational planning around the detention estate’ and will be re-purposed back into a prison.  […]

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September 26, 2017

Growing support for detention reform – where next?

26 September 2017 Following the death of a Chinese person at Dungavel in Scotland and the Panorama documentary on Brook House near Gatwick Airport, immigration detention is yet again under intense scrutiny. At the Labour party conference in Brighton, a number of campaigners and supporters have been speaking to politicians and other conference attendees about the need for a […]

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