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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 [...]

2024-10-29T08:59:49+00:00October 29th, 2024|

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 [...]

2024-10-16T08:42:33+00:00October 16th, 2024|

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 [...]

2024-10-15T08:38:34+00:00October 15th, 2024|

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 [...]

2024-09-17T13:51:39+00:00September 17th, 2024|

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 [...]

2024-09-09T08:43:27+00:00September 9th, 2024|

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 [...]

2024-08-22T09:46:19+00:00August 22nd, 2024|

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 [...]

2024-08-05T10:33:36+00:00August 5th, 2024|

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 [...]

2024-07-10T07:48:45+00:00July 10th, 2024|

Detention Forum conference

We held our first in person conference at Detention Forum in five years last month, and it was so energising to bring our network and partners together. We met at the Amnesty Human Rights Action Centre in London [...]

2024-07-01T13:23:30+00:00July 1st, 2024|

New detention report by JRS UK

The Jesuit Refugee Service UK has recently published a new report, After Brook House: continued abuse in immigration detention, revealing that patterns of mistreatment detailed by the high-profile Independent Inquiry into events at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre [...]

2024-05-17T08:26:05+00:00May 17th, 2024|
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