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 conditions there being like a 'pressure cooker', and people are being accommodated [...]
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 others, Bethany Elen, who will share songs written with those with lived [...]
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 seeing detention centres begin to close, and indeed seeing the Home Office [...]
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 it will be at the detention centre, Medomsley, County Durham, DH8 6QY. [...]
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 it costs to hold an individual under immigration powers in prison, per [...]
New research on access to justice for people detained in prison
Our friends at BID have just published a really informative report on the difficulties people detained in prison have when they try to access justice. Their new research documents the multiple and intersecting barriers to justice faced by people detained under immigration powers in prison. The research is based on [...]
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 the decision to withdraw the planned site at Linton-on-Ouse. And it was [...]
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 to see their latest actions including the planned protest in Parliament Square [...]