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 [...]
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 [...]