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A long three-month marathon of #unlocked16 ended on International Migrants Day, 18 December 2016. The Detention Forum’s flagship project, Unlocking Detention, is a virtual tour of the UK’s detention estate. This project started in 2014, and this [...]
18 August 2016 In Stephen Shaw’s substantive review of detention earlier this year, it did not go unnoticed that the scale of immigration detention in the UK had increased without any strategic plan, or statement of purpose. He [...]
August 15th, 2016 (This piece first appeared on the Right to Remain webpage here.) Every year for the past three years, Right to Remain has helped to run an innovative and participatory social media project that raises awareness [...]
28 July 2016 In its latest inspection report on Colnbrook detention centre, HM Inspector of Prisons said ‘There should be a strict time limit on the length of detention and caseworkers should act with diligence and expedition.’ [...]
22 July 2016 UK’s National Preventive Mechanism calls for a time limit on immigration detention UK’s official detention watchdog has confirmed that it supports the view that there should be a time limit over immigration detention. HM Chief [...]
21 July 2016 The Government announced today that they are moving the location of child detention from Cedars Pre-Departure Accommodation to a ‘discrete unit’ within Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre, near Gatwick Airport. Cedars Pre Departure Accommodation currently [...]
20 July 2016 After the Cabinet reshuffle, we now have a new Home Secretary (Amber Rudd) and a new Immigration Minister (Robert Goodwill). It is important that the new Minister is made aware, while he is still new [...]
Social media volunteers needed! 2 July 2016 We are looking for two to three volunteers who can help us increase our social media presence by; making sure our Twitter account is always active publishing regularly small pieces of detention-related [...]
12 May 2016 The last Immigration Bill debate took place on 10 May 2016, during which Lord Ramsbotham, Baroness Hamwee and Baroness Lister made impassioned speeches in their attempts to safeguard rights and dignity of people trapped in [...]
12 May 2016 The Immigration Act, scheduled to receive Royal Assent in the coming days, will introduce automatic judicial oversight on the UK’s use of immigration detention for the first time and a 72-hour time limit on the [...]