By Liz Peretz, Campaign to Close Campsfield Trigger warning: self-harm, suicide People held in immigration detention centres are among the most vulnerable people in our society. Many detainees have suffered torture or ill treatment, have significant and chronic [...]
This year, the Unlocking Detention blog is particularly focusing on the impact of detention on an individual’s immediate social circle – their friends and family. This piece is written by "Mishka", of the Freed Voices group (the author’s [...]
There's been lots of engagement with #Unlocked16 this week, as we visited the UK’s largest detention centre. Harmondsworth can hold up to 676 people, all men. Opened as a purpose-built detention centre in 2000, Harmondsworth is situated right [...]
This week Unlocking Detention has been ‘visiting’ Harmondsworth - the largest detention centre in the UK, with a capacity for 661 people, and once the 'spiritual' home of the now abolished Detained Fast Track. On Friday afternoon, Ben [...]
By Silvia Maritati, Advocacy Coordinator at Detention Action. “People detained under the Immigration Act powers are unique among the prison population in that their future is entirely uncertain...The degree of uncertainty which is facing detainees in this position [...]
This week, Unlocking Detention visited Morton Hall in Lincolnshire. Morton Hall opened as an "immigration removal centre" in 2011, having previously been other kinds of prison for men, women and youth since 1958. There are 392 bed spaces [...]
As told by 'K'. Footnotes by Ciara Bottomley of Detention Action. The first time I was detained was in 2010. (See below: 1) I was in Harmondsworth then too. The centre was the same then as it is now. [...]
This week Unlocking Detention has been ‘visiting’ Morton Hall in Lincolnshire. On Friday afternoon, Ben from Detention Action conducted a live Twitter Q&A with Dave, who's been detained for nearly two years altogether. You can recap the whole interview [...]
This article by Ravi Naik, Public and International Law Solicitor and Head of Public Law at ITN Solicitors, was first published by the Justice Gap. The unravelling of the Home Office’s immigration curfew regime following the Court of Appeal [...]
Image courtesy of Freed Voices This guest post by Amanda Schmid-Scott, PhD Researcher at the University of Exeter, asks: what might a re-imagining of violence reveal about the lived experience of immigration detention? This post was first published on [...]