Jonathan

This week the Detention Forum was fortunate enough to be invited to attend and speak at the campaign meeting of NoTo Hassockfield. They are members of our Forum, and it is always inspiring when we are able to [...]

Our friends at the Coalition to Close Campsfield have sent us this important update below - do please help them to spread the word! Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre near Kidlington just north of Oxford closed in 2018 after [...]

The Government’s chief inspector of prisons recently published his findings from the unannounced inspection of Derwentside IRC. We are keen to echo the views of our member No to Hassockfield on this report: The report says: “ Of [...]

At our last Detention Forum members' meeting we took time to reflect on the current challenging external environment as seek to develop our mission of ending the use of immigration detention in the UK. We are very conscious [...]

As we approach the end of the year, we are keen to highlight the recent report by the Independent Monitoring Board on the use of force on people in immigration detention. After the Brook House Inquiry, this report [...]

We are keen to promote the National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention on Saturday, 18 October 2025 at Derwentside (Hassockfield) detention centre organised by our friends at Right to Remain and No To Hassockfield. This is [...]

We are keen to highlight the new report from the Jesuit Refugee Service on Accessing legal advice in detention: becoming an impossibility. The report highlights that it is extraordinarily difficult to access legal advice in immigration detention, with [...]

Our friends at Migrant Voice have recently produced a new newspaper in both hard copy and online formats, and we were delighted to see that they featured the powerful story of Stella on her experience in immigration detention. [...]

We are keen to promote the new report by Women for Refugee Women on immigration detention, A Decade of Harm, has officially launched today! The research was designed and carried out by a team of 7 women who [...]

We don't often have our breath taking away quite so strongly as after we watched the recent video produced by our friends at AVID. Their new animated video exposes what really happens in UK immigration detention. It is [...]