There have been reports in the media that people are being held at the Manston short-term holding facility in Kent beyond the 24-48 hours with some people staying there for a week. The Prison Officers Association has described [...]
The next national demonstration against the new detention centre at Hassockfield (Derwentside) will be held 12-2pm on Saturday 15th October 2022 outside the centre. Their speakers will be those with lived experience and they have music from, amongst [...]
Just after the sad news that the Home Office intends to re-open Campsfield detention centre, we've just heard the bleak news that they are now planning to re-open the Haslar detention centre in Gosport, Hampshire. After years of [...]
Our friends in the North East are organising another national protest against the new detention centre in Derwentside - previously known as Hassockfield. It will be held on Saturday 15th October 2022 at midday - and this time [...]
We thought that it was helpful to highlight a recent Parliamentary question asked by Alison Thewliss MP of Simon Baynes MP, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office/ Ministry of Justice. She asked him how much [...]
Our friends at BID have just published a really informative report on the difficulties people detained in prison have when they try to access justice. Their new research documents the multiple and intersecting barriers to justice faced by [...]
We were very happy recently to add our collective name to the joint inter-agency letter, co-ordinated by Asylum Matters, calling on the Home Secretary and the Defence Secretary to to scrap all plans for asylum accommodation centres, following [...]
As we blogged last month, we deplore the decision of the government to re-open the Campsfield immigration centre in Kidlington, north of Oxford. The Coalition to Keep Campsfield Closed has been launched, and do check out their website [...]
One of our members, Ben and Jerry's, recently added a new blog post on their site. It is an excellent post and well worth a read. It is focussed on a project which has just come to an [...]
At our last members' meeting we heard from the Linton-on-Ouse Action Group on their campaign to stop the opening of a new accommodation centre for people seeking asylum at RAF Linton. This was a group of local people [...]