By Lea Sitkin and Bethan Rogers. This article originally appeared in Open Democracy's Unlocking Detention series. Lea Sitkin is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Westminster. She holds a DPhil in Criminology from the University of Oxford. [...]
By Melanie Griffiths, academic and campaigner. The government has recently submitted plans to the Cherwell District Council for the major expansion of Campsfield House, an Immigration Removal Centre situated just outside Oxford. This is just the latest phase [...]
10 November 2014 As the Home Office plans to more than double the capacity of Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre in Oxfordshire, the Detention Forum is calling for a moratorium on the detention expansion. We call on others [...]
This article comes from Tom Sanderson. You can read the full article in OpenDemocracy. Britain’s leading children’s charity helps the world’s biggest security company lock up children who have committed no crime. This past summer I’ve been trying [...]
While the Detention Forum was encouraging groups and individuals to take part in the detention inquiry by submitting evidence, we were contacted by individuals and groups who said they wanted to take part but they simply could not. [...]
This blog post was written by Abdelhay Tali, who has experienced immigration detention, and originally appeared on his blog. This is a thorny issue, through time and the acquisition of experiences; people learned that it is not necessary to [...]
26 Oct to 1 Nov - the Unlocking Detention team looks back on the week they visited Harmondsworth detention centre, right beside Heathrow Airport. Our Harmondworth week started with ominous news, which only confirmed the UK government's commitment to [...]
19 to 25 Oct - the Unlocking Detention team looks back on the week they visited Morton Hall detention centre, in deep Lincolnshire. https://twitter.com/DetentionForum/status/524561287024771072 Until recently, Morton Hall detention centre was the latest addition to the ever growing immigration detention [...]
This piece by Judith Dennis was first published by openDemocracy on 3 November 2014. Judith is Policy Manager at the Refugee Council. Despite pledging to end child detention for immigration purposes in 2010, the UK Government is still [...]
This post is written by Souleymane, who has experienced immigration detention. His testimony was provided for Detention Action's forthcoming annual report. I was in detention for three and half years. At first, I would look for signs it [...]