Oral histories of immigration detention: ethical approaches in research and activism What does it mean to be involved in anti-detention activism? How should researchers work with people with experience of incarceration? What are the different motives and [...]
Increased detention and deportation of EU citizens from the UK has been in the news for some time, especially in the context of debates surrounding Brexit. NELMA has been working with EU citizens who have been detained while sleeping rough. [...]
This piece is written for Unlocking Detention by ‘Jose’ of the Freed Voices group (the author’s name has been altered to protect their identity). 'Jose' was detained in Campsfield detention centre. Before I went to detention, I had posters [...]
On the morning of Thursday 16th November, MPs and peers, experts-by-experience and others campaigning for detention reform gathered in parliament for a meeting on immigration detention. The meeting comes after several months in which immigration detention has been [...]
Located on the Isle of Portland, off Weymouth in Dorset, the Verne epitomises the Government’s ‘out of sight, out of mind’ approach to detention. In this blog, Ruth Jacobson of the Verne Visitors Group describes how this isolation [...]
Trafficked people in detention are being denied the full protection of the Home Office’s flagship system for protecting victims of modern slavery, according to new research by Detention Action. Many victims of trafficking are taken to high-security detention centres [...]
We're almost halfway through #Unlocked17. From all over the UK, you've been tweeting, writing and sharing your selfies to tell us how you feel about detention, and to help spread the word about Unlocking Detention. Thank you! https://twitter.com/MKemple/status/928655841045118976 [...]
Today, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons have released their report on their most recent independent and unannounced inspection of Yarl's Wood detention centre. The centre was last inspected in 2015. This inspection showed some improvements in conditions for [...]
Maddie Biddlecombe is a member of Verne Visitors Group in Portland and sent us this reflection. The Verne detention centre is set to close at the end of 2017. It started with an exploding goat in a dry [...]
The impact of immigration detention is not confined behind the gates of the detention centres: it involves people's children, families, friends etc. Nick Watts is a child & family practitioner and co-founder of the charity Migrant Family Action, that provides [...]