This year, Unlocking Detention is exploring how detention affects communities across the UK - not just where detention centres are located. This blog post is written by an artist who is a member of an asylum/immigration support group [...]
This blogpost is part of ‘Thinking Outside the Box’ - a Detention Action series which featuring the reflections of those with direct experience of detention, or of working with people in detention. This piece was written by Joe [...]
Sonja Miley who works at Waging Peace - a human rights organisation which campaigns against genocide and systematic human rights violations in Sudan, and an active member of the Detention Forum - writes about her experience of watching the [...]
The first stop of this year's Unlocking Detention tour was the Verne detention centre. https://twitter.com/DetentionForum/status/649889152616525824 Last year when we visited the Verne, it was still a prison. It has recently become the latest addition to the detention estate [...]
This blog post is written by Gemma Pillay, from Nottingham. She works for the Nottingham and Notts Refugee Forum. On Sunday 28th June 2015 I received a text from my friend Imran: Hello gemma its Imran here I [...]
This piece was written by Fraser Paterson, who works at Samphire. You can follow them on Twitter at @samphire_ Many people will know Dover as Britain’s main border with Europe and living here you are occasionally reminded on [...]
This piece is written by Rahwa Fessahaye, Advocacy Co-ordinator at Detention Action The first time I went to Verne IRC was in November 2014, a few weeks after I had returned from maternity leave. I was curious to see [...]
As well as shining a spotlight on the very specific physical sites of detention which make up the UK's detention estate, 'Unlocking Detention' is also about highlighting the ways in which detention impacts communities outside. With this week's focus on [...]
By Pat, a member of the Verne Visitors Group and Detention Forum volunteer Above the Chesil Beach It’s difficult not to think about location. Bus number 1 from Weymouth city centre goes towards Portland Island, the southernmost point [...]
These piece was written anonymously for #Unlocked15 by a member of the Freed Voices group - a group of experts-by-experience who are dedicated to speaking out about the realities of detention in the UK and campaigning for detention [...]