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Unlocking Detention visits Campsfield House

Now over half-way through Unlocking Detention 2015, last week we virtually visited Campsfield House detention centre in Kidlington, near Oxford. https://twitter.com/GioFassetta/status/661618241710764033 Campsfield was originally a young offenders' institute but opened as a detention centre in 1993.  It was [...]

2022-10-05T20:07:14+00:00November 10th, 2015|

We should see detainees as our equals in the eyes of God

This post was written by Caroline Grogan, Communications and Media Officer for Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN).  CSAN are members of the Detention Forum.  The issue of immigration detention is particularly important to CSAN, which works with the [...]

2022-10-05T20:10:45+00:00November 10th, 2015|

The impact of detention on LGBT communities

This article was written for Unlocking Detention by Nina Held and Karen Smith, volunteers at Lesbian Immigration Support Group in Manchester.  This article was originally published by Justice Gap, our #Unlocked15 partners. The UK is the only European [...]

2022-10-05T20:11:35+00:00November 9th, 2015|

Exceptional circumstances? Detention at Campsfield House

This piece was written by Melanie Griffiths, a trustee at Asylum Welcome.  Asylum Welcome are a long-standing Oxford charity supporting men detained at Campsfield House. She is also a researcher based at the University of Bristol. Asylum Welcome [...]

2022-10-05T20:13:07+00:00November 4th, 2015|

Three Scenes from Campsfield IRC

This piece was written for Unlocking Detention by William, from the Freed Voices group. William was detained in Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre for four days before he was transferred to another detention centre, where he was incarcerated for [...]

2022-10-05T20:14:19+00:00November 4th, 2015|

Stop Campsfield Expansion: a victory worth celebrating

This blog post was written by Bill MacKeith for Unlocking Detention.  Bill is a founding member of the Campaign to Close Campsfield. This month marks the 22nd anniversary of the opening of Campsfield detention centre, an occasion that [...]

2022-10-05T20:15:07+00:00November 2nd, 2015|

A visitor’s view of Campsfield

Campsfield House is widely considered one of the 'better-run' IRCs and the last report by HMIP, the official inspection body, vouched for this. Most people detained there, who have experienced other IRCs, like Harmondsworth or Brook House, agree [...]

2022-10-05T20:16:05+00:00November 2nd, 2015|

Unlocking Detention: A week at Harmondsworth

This week, Unlocking Detention visited Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow airport.  Harmondsworth is not only the biggest detention centre (immigration removal centre) in the UK, but also in Europe.  Catch with all our tweets - including our twice [...]

2022-10-05T20:16:50+00:00October 30th, 2015|

Visiting The Verne detention centre

We asked members of the Verne Visitors group to share their thoughts and experiences on visiting people at the Verne.  We were interested to hear what led them to start visiting, what they discovered when they started visiting, [...]

2022-10-05T20:18:50+00:00October 29th, 2015|
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