Throughout Unlocking Detention, we've asked people via Twitter, Facebook, and at the workshops we've run across the UK, to draw an image in response to the question "What does detention mean to you?" This includes images from people [...]
To mark the end of this year’s Unlocking Detention tour, we asked a selection of activists, legal commentators, politicians, journalists and experts-by-experience – all engaged in the fight against detention in the UK and across Europe – their [...]
To mark the end of this year’s Unlocking Detention tour, we asked a selection of activists, legal commentators, politicians, journalists and experts-by-experience – all engaged in the fight against detention in the UK and across Europe – their [...]
To mark the end of this year’s Unlocking Detention tour, we asked a selection of activists, legal commentators, politicians, journalists and experts-by-experience – all engaged in the fight against detention in the UK and across Europe – their [...]
To mark the end of this year's Unlocking Detention tour, we asked a selection of activists, legal commentators, politicians, journalists and experts-by-experience - all engaged in the fight against detention in the UK and across Europe - their [...]
This was the final week that Unlocking Detention 2016 visited a specific detention centre, ahead of the round-up final week next week. And the final visit went to Dungavel, Scotland's only detention centre, and the subject of lots [...]
This week Unlocking Detention has been ‘visiting’ Dungavel detention centre, the only detention in Scotland and a site of much contention after the government announced plans earlier this year to close it and open a Short-Term Holding Facility [...]
By Pinar Aksu. Pinar works with Migrant Voice as a Community Development worker in Glasgow and with Active Inquiry using Theatre of the Oppressed methods and is also a member of Right to Remain's management committee. She has [...]
By Kate Alexander, director of Scottish Detainee Visitors. It’s been a funny few months. Just a month before the beginning of this year’s Unlocking Detention tour of detention in the UK, the Immigration Minister, Robert Goodwill, announced that [...]
Scottish Detainee Visitors asked their volunteer visitors to write a few sentences about a memorable experience they had while volunteering with them - visiting people detained in Dungavel detention centre. They asked them to start with the phrase [...]