Content warning: suicide This year, Unlocking Detention is particularly focusing on the impact of detention on an individual’s immediate social circle – their friends and family. This piece by Ajay is the first of several on this theme [...]
This week, Unlocking Detention visited The Verne, perhaps the most isolated of the UK's detention centres. The Verne opened as a detention centre ("immigration removal centre") in 2014, and has 580 bed spaces. Only men are detained here. [...]
This post was written by Ravi Naik, Public and International Law Solicitor and Head of Public Law at ITN Solicitors. Ravi acted for the Claimant in the "Gedi v SSHD" case discussed below. This post highlights how communicating [...]
This week Unlocking Detention has been 'visiting' The Verne detention centre, in Dorset. On Friday afternoon, Ben from Detention Action conducted a live interview with Mark who is currently detained there. Ben alerted those following the Q and [...]
By Susannah Willcox, Advocacy Coordinator at Detention Action. Trigger warning: suicide In August this year, there was public outcry at the proposed introduction of a new Detention Services Order (DSO) on Rule 40 and Rule 42, the two [...]
This blog post which sheds light on a little-discussed aspect of detention - the chaplaincy services available at every centre - is written by Gayle Munro. Gayle has insight into the world of UK immigration detention in two [...]
What an exciting first week of Unlocking Detention 2016! This first week was partly an introduction to this virtual tour of the UK's immigration detention estate, but also focused on two of the most hidden sites of detention: [...]
By Mo*, 12 months in detention** Detention in the Verne is like being stuck in an island, in an island, in an island, in an island. Your cell is the centre. It is where I am most lonely, [...]
This afternoon, Ben from Detention Action conducted a live Q and A with 'Abdi' who is currently detained, under immigration powers, in a prison. Ben asked Abdi questions that you, the public, had sent us via Twitter and [...]
In this #Unlocked16 article, Jerome Phelps of Detention Action writes for Open Democracy 50:50 on how "the pragmatic development of alternatives to detention with civil society at the fore can help to arrest the slide into the abyss [...]