Without people taking action, change won't happen. Luke Butterly of Right to Remain reports back on a recent campaign event of These Walls Must Fall which took place in Manchester. This blog was originally published on Right to [...]
We are told that the Verne detention centre will be closed at the end of 2017. But is it really closing in the minds of those who were detained there? 'Juan' from Freed Voices responds to this news [...]
There is understandably huge interest in knowing what immigration detention centres look like: barbed wire and prohibition of cameras inside the centres increase people’s curiosity. But can you see the impact of immigration detention with your eyes? What [...]
For many involved in asylum and migration justice work (not for us!), immigration detention was a taboo subject for a long time and, in some quarters, it still is. One of the reasons for this is the mixed [...]
This year's Unlocking Detention's theme is taking action, and the Detention Forum is supporting APPG on Refugees' parliamentary meeting on immigration detention on 16 November. Do you think your MP is coming? It probably depends on whether you [...]
When we talk about immigration detention, of course we think of immigration detention centres. But hundreds of people are also detained as "immigration detainees" in many ordinary prisons. Ali McGinley of AVID shines light on this forgotten group [...]
Between 30 October and 5 November, #Unlocked17 visited Brook House and Tinsley House, near Gatwick airport. Brook House has 448 beds, and Tinsley 119. When Tinsley House was established in 1996, it was the UK's first purpose-built detention [...]
Immigration detention is sometimes described as ‘administrative detention in prison-like conditions’. And the Home Office can detain people under immigration powers in prisons. In fact, as at 26 June 2017, there were 360 people held in prison establishments [...]