This blog post was written by June, who is currently detained in Yarl’s Wood. This piece was originally published on Women for Refugee Women's blog and has been republished with their kind permission here. Yarl’s Wood is like [...]
By Britte van Tiem. who works for Amnesty International as Learning & Accountability Officer. In her free time, she visits people in detention with Detention Action. All views expressed here are her own. This article was originally published [...]
This piece was written for Unlocking Detention by the Larne House Visitors Group. Larne House is a short-term holding facility near Belfast. People are detained there for short periods of time before being transferred to another detention centre [...]
This week, Unlocking Detention virtually visited Cedars 'pre-departure accommodation' (i.e. a detention centre) for families and children. Cedars opened in August 2011 after the Coalition Government's promise to end detention of children in Yarl's Wood. Cedars is in [...]
This blog post was written by Rissa Mohabir, coordinator of the Bristol Immigration Detention Campaign. BIDC are members of the Detention Forum. With the impending parliamentary debate on detention on September 10th, Bristol Immigration Detention Campaign staged Pop Up [...]
Now over half-way through Unlocking Detention 2015, last week we virtually visited Campsfield House detention centre in Kidlington, near Oxford. https://twitter.com/GioFassetta/status/661618241710764033 Campsfield was originally a young offenders' institute but opened as a detention centre in 1993. It was [...]
This post was written by Caroline Grogan, Communications and Media Officer for Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN). CSAN are members of the Detention Forum. The issue of immigration detention is particularly important to CSAN, which works with the [...]
This article was written for Unlocking Detention by Nina Held and Karen Smith, volunteers at Lesbian Immigration Support Group in Manchester. This article was originally published by Justice Gap, our #Unlocked15 partners. The UK is the only European [...]
This piece was written by Melanie Griffiths, a trustee at Asylum Welcome. Asylum Welcome are a long-standing Oxford charity supporting men detained at Campsfield House. She is also a researcher based at the University of Bristol. Asylum Welcome [...]
This piece was written for Unlocking Detention by William, from the Freed Voices group. William was detained in Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre for four days before he was transferred to another detention centre, where he was incarcerated for [...]