Mama Stella’s story
At our last members meeting we heard about the work of our media group at our meeting. Our media group contains people with lived experience of immigration detention in the UK and who are powerful communicators. We are [...]
Keep Campsfield Closed Demo
Our friends at the Keep Campsfield Closed Campaign have arranged the following demonstration: KEEP CAMPSFIELD CLOSED! 12 NOON 30 NOVEMBER 2024 CAMPSFIELD GATES LANGFORD LANE KIDLINGTON OX5 1RE BUS INFORMATION: S7 FROM MAGDALEN STREET (STOP C3) OXFORD People [...]
We mourn another death at Brook House
We are mourning the tragic news of another death at Brook House, after a man died at the detention centre on Sunday. This is almost a year since an Albanian man died at the same detention centre. Our [...]
Do not ignore the Brook House Inquiry
At our recent members' meeting, we discussed our three key priorities for our engagement with the new Government and Parliament. They are as follows: Keep Haslar (in Hampshire) and Campsfield (in Oxfordshire) detention centres closed A 28 day [...]
Alternatives to Detention event
The Detention Forum is happy to be joining our friends at Rene Cassin and Rainbow Migration at an online event next week promoting the compassionate alternative to immigration detention - welcome the stranger: the need for alternatives to [...]
Gatwick detention centre becoming less safe
Following on from the Brook House Inquiry, we were saddened to see the recent publication of another independent report this time showing that since then safety has got worse for the people detained there. The findings were published [...]
Outcry against Immigration Detention expansion
The Detention Forum was proud to add its name to the recent joint letter co-ordinated by AVID expressing our opposition to the proposed re-opening of the detention centres at Haslar in Hampshire and Campsfield in Oxfordshire. The signatories [...]
Shifting ground on alternatives to detention
In the last Parliament, we had become sadly quite used to the last Government's response to any questions about the Home Office funded community-based alternatives to detention pilot projects - for example: see here. Just recently Olivia Blake [...]
Time for change!
We were interested to read the media story yesterday focussing on HM Chief Inspector of Prisons' recent reports into Detention Centres. Following on from his recent report on Harmondsworth, all eight main detention centres in the UK have [...]
New damning report on Harmondsworth Detention Centre
The report on the Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre was published by HM Inspector of Prisons yesterday and it was said that inspectors returning to this detention centre found the worst conditions that they have ever found in immigration [...]