Earlier today, Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, made a statement to the House of Commons on immigration detention and the second Stephen Shaw review. This independent review focuses on progress made by the Home Office since the publication of Shaw’s [...]
The Home Office and Office of National Statistics regularly publish detailed tables showing the numbers of people held in immigration detention and subsequently released or removed from the UK. But what do these figures mean, and how can we use [...]
Just a few nights ago, I was flicking through a very old report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights published in 2007. Its edges are frayed. Some pages still have post-it notes stuck on them. 12 years [...]
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East MP Stuart McDonald has been named a Detention Forum Champion by members of the Detention Forum and local civil society organisations for his outstanding contribution to immigration detention reform. Stuart joins Paul Blomfield [...]
Paul Blomfield, Labour MP for Sheffield Central, was given the Detention Forum Champion award on 8 June 2018 over a special celebratory Iftar in Sheffield, in recognition of his work in Parliament advocating for detention reform. He was [...]
As we wait with bated breath for the results of Stephen Shaw’s second review of immigration detention, it’s worth taking some time to revisit his first. A former Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, Shaw was commissioned by Theresa May [...]
There is usually a moment of hesitation when a media story about something that you have known all along begins to turn into something that looks more like a proper media - and political - frenzy. The truth [...]
#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 [...]
Collateral – A BBC drama shining a light on the secret world of indefinite immigration detention Immigration detention dramatised on TV? Sylvia Gauthereau, one of the Detention Forum volunteers, reviews a BBC drama, Collateral. Immigration detention featured quite centrally [...]
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 [...]