Have you read the latest CPT factsheet on Immigration Detention? In March 2017, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) published a useful factsheet on immigration detention. Its secretariat [...]
What will the next Government do about immigration detention? Who is going to be your next MP? Ask your parliamentary candidates if they agree it’s #Time4aTimeLimit! The General Election is going to take place on 8 June 2017. This [...]
11 April 2017 At the last Quarterly Meeting of the Detention Forum in April 2017, we had a chance to reflect on the recent Westminster Hall debate on Detention of Vulnerable Persons, led by Anne McLaughlin MP (SNP) [...]
Morton Hall detention centre - a threefold rise in self-harm, increased safety concerns and continuing long-term detention 21 March 2017 There has been a threefold increase in self-harm and a decline in safety in Morton Hall immigration detention [...]
10 March 2017 (updated at 11:40am 10 March 2017) In the report published today, the Prison Inspector urges the Home Office to take a ‘remedial action’ to address continuing long-term immigration detention of migrants, after finding a number [...]
What do these immigration detention statistics tell us? 24 February 2017 The immigration detention statistics published yesterday show no sign that significant and coherent detention reform is being implemented by the Home Office. The two recent major inquiries into [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
August 15th, 2016 (This piece first appeared on the Right to Remain webpage here.) Every year for the past three years, Right to Remain has helped to run an innovative and participatory social media project that raises awareness [...]