29 September 2014 (We asked our friend, Detention Forum Scotland, to tell us their hope for the detention inquiry in light of the 'NO' vote for the Scottish Referendum.) Many organisations working within the field of migration, and [...]
We received this blog entry from Henry who is in Haslar Immigration Removal Centre. My name is Henry, aged 53, and though of Nigerian and Sierra Leonean mixed parentage, I have spent the last 31 years of my [...]
Refugee Action are members of the Detention Forum and used to provide advice about assisted return to people in detention, before the Home Office withdrew the contract. These are some of the experiences of one of their caseworkers. [...]
Ali McGinley of AVID - a member of the Detention Forum - writes for the #Unlocked series in Open Democracy on detention in short-term holding facilities. Key statutory instruments governing the use of detention do not apply to [...]
Image courtesy of Freed Voices This post was written by Ivo Kuka, who has experienced immigration detention. His testimony was provided for Detention Action's forthcoming annual report. In 2008, the Independent Asylum Commission did an assessment of the UK’s [...]
By Eiri Ohtani from the Detention Forum. Yesterday morning, I joined colleagues from Right to Remain, Detention Action and JRS UK who nervously gathered at JRS UK’s headquarters in east London. We had a reason to be nervous. [...]
This week, Bail Immigration for Detainees (BID) published a new report 'Denial of Justice: the hidden use of UK prisons for immigration detention'. As of 31 December 2013, 2,796 people were held in immigration detention in immigration removal [...]
By Ben du Preez from Detention Action, with testimony from Jamal who was detained in HMP The Verne. Detention Action is a member of the Detention Forum. On 24th March 2014, vans carrying migrants began arriving at HM [...]
By Francisca Stewart. Francisca works for Article 1, a member organisation of the Detention Forum. Published at OpenDemocracy, as part of a series of articles on unlocking detention. Too often for foreign national prisoners in Britain, the completion [...]
By Eiri Ohtani from the Detention Forum. Immigration detention is often hidden. It is hidden behind the gates and barbed wires. It is hidden at the back of people’s consciousness. It is also hidden because many of us [...]