This blog post was written for Unlocking Detention by Lisa Matthews, coordinator of Right to Remain. Right to Remain are a coordinating group of the Detention Forum, leading on communications and campaigns, and run Unlocking Detention on behalf [...]
This blog post was written by Colleen Molloy, City of Sanctuary National Development Officer. The image used at the start of this blog post was produced for City of Sanctuary by Patti McKenna, a community artist in Swansea. [...]
Last week, Unlocking Detention paid a virtual visit to perhaps the UK's best known detention centre, Yarl's Wood - known for all the wrong reasons. Yarl's Wood is one of the detention centres where women can be detained, [...]
This blog post was written by Nic Eadie, director of Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (@GatDetainees). It was originally published by our #Unlocked15 partners, Justice Gap. I’ve been working with people detained at Tinsley House and Brook House for [...]
This post was written for Unlocking Detention by Heather Jones, who visits women detained in Yarl's Wood. In 2014 ninety-nine pregnant women were detained in Yarl’s Wood. This was despite Home Office Guidance which includes a list of people [...]
This blog post was written by June, who is currently detained in Yarl’s Wood. This piece was originally published on Women for Refugee Women's blog and has been republished with their kind permission here. Yarl’s Wood is like [...]
By Britte van Tiem. who works for Amnesty International as Learning & Accountability Officer. In her free time, she visits people in detention with Detention Action. All views expressed here are her own. This article was originally published [...]
This piece was written for Unlocking Detention by the Larne House Visitors Group. Larne House is a short-term holding facility near Belfast. People are detained there for short periods of time before being transferred to another detention centre [...]
This week, Unlocking Detention virtually visited Cedars 'pre-departure accommodation' (i.e. a detention centre) for families and children. Cedars opened in August 2011 after the Coalition Government's promise to end detention of children in Yarl's Wood. Cedars is in [...]
This blog post was written by Rissa Mohabir, coordinator of the Bristol Immigration Detention Campaign. BIDC are members of the Detention Forum. With the impending parliamentary debate on detention on September 10th, Bristol Immigration Detention Campaign staged Pop Up [...]