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New report by HM Inspector of Prisons

A new report by HM Inspector of Prisons, out yesterday, has shown that delays and confusion have kept people in immigration detention behind bars unnecessarily. Their review of the experience of immigration detainees held in prisons has found [...]

2022-10-14T09:02:19+00:00October 14th, 2022|

Manston camp like a pressure cooker

There have been reports in the media that people are being held at the Manston short-term holding facility in Kent beyond the 24-48 hours with some people staying there for a week. The Prison Officers Association has described [...]

2022-10-07T13:50:32+00:00October 7th, 2022|

Next National Demonstration – No to Hassockfield

The next national demonstration against the new detention centre at Hassockfield (Derwentside) will be held 12-2pm on Saturday 15th October 2022 outside the centre. Their speakers will be those with lived experience and they have music from, amongst [...]

2022-10-07T13:06:35+00:00October 7th, 2022|

Keep Haslar closed

Just after the sad news that the Home Office intends to re-open Campsfield detention centre, we've just heard the bleak news that they are now planning to re-open the Haslar detention centre in Gosport, Hampshire. After years of [...]

2022-09-27T08:11:13+00:00September 27th, 2022|

National Protest against Derwentside IRC (Hassockfield)

Our friends in the North East are organising another national protest against the new detention centre in Derwentside - previously known as Hassockfield. It will be held on Saturday 15th October 2022 at midday - and this time [...]

2022-09-15T12:41:00+00:00September 15th, 2022|

The cost of immigration detention

We thought that it was helpful to highlight a recent Parliamentary question asked by Alison Thewliss MP of Simon Baynes MP, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office/ Ministry of Justice. She asked him how much [...]

2022-09-14T11:45:04+00:00September 14th, 2022|

Joint letter to stop accommodation centres

We were very happy recently to add our collective name to the joint inter-agency letter, co-ordinated by Asylum Matters, calling on the Home Secretary and the Defence Secretary to to scrap all plans for asylum accommodation centres, following [...]

2022-08-23T07:40:47+00:00August 23rd, 2022|

Keep Campsfield Closed

As we blogged last month, we deplore the decision of the government to re-open the Campsfield immigration centre in Kidlington, north of Oxford. The Coalition to Keep Campsfield Closed has been launched, and do check out their website [...]

2022-08-25T07:20:31+00:00August 22nd, 2022|

There is an alternative

One of our members, Ben and Jerry's, recently added a new blog post on their site. It is an excellent post and well worth a read. It is focussed on a project which has just come to an [...]

2022-08-16T13:29:39+00:00August 16th, 2022|
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