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Unlocking Detention shone a spotlight on the hidden world of immigration detention. This ‘virtual tour’ of the immigration detention estate used Twitter, Facebook and a website to ‘unlock’ the gates of immigration detention centres.

Each week, Unlocking Detention ‘visited’ one of the UK’s detention centres. We heard from people who had been detained there, volunteer visitors, NGOs, campaigners and the families, friends, neighbours and communities over whom detention cast its long shadows.

We started Unlocking Detention back in 2014 and it ran for 6 years. While we no longer run this campaign with its dedicated website, it has left a powerful legacy of the impact of immigration detention. We have archived the key information, and we are now proud to continue to make it accessible via our website.

#Unlocked15 ‘visits’ Yarl’s Wood

Last week, Unlocking Detention paid a virtual visit to perhaps the UK's best known detention centre, Yarl's Wood - known for all the wrong reasons. Yarl's Wood is one of the detention centres where women can be detained, [...]

Unlocked2022-10-05T19:58:01+00:00November 23rd, 2015|

Almost as British as me

This blog post was written by Nic Eadie, director of Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (@GatDetainees). It was originally published by our #Unlocked15 partners, Justice Gap. I’ve been working with people detained at Tinsley House and Brook House for [...]

Unlocked2022-10-05T19:59:03+00:00November 23rd, 2015|

Pregnancy ought to be a happy time: women in Yarl’s Wood

This post was written for Unlocking Detention by Heather Jones, who visits women detained in Yarl's Wood. In 2014 ninety-nine pregnant women were detained in Yarl’s Wood. This was despite Home Office Guidance which includes a list of people [...]

Unlocked2022-10-05T20:00:10+00:00November 18th, 2015|

“It’s like an apartheid that’s gone underground”

This blog post was written by June, who is currently detained in Yarl’s Wood. This piece was originally published on Women for Refugee Women's blog and has been republished with their kind permission here. Yarl’s Wood is like [...]

Unlocked2022-10-05T20:01:13+00:00November 17th, 2015|

Refugees Welcome, to detention

By Britte van Tiem. who works for Amnesty International as Learning & Accountability Officer. In her free time, she visits people in detention with Detention Action. All views expressed here are her own. This article was originally published [...]

Unlocked2022-10-05T20:02:59+00:00November 16th, 2015|

How detention affects my community: the view from Belfast

This piece was written for Unlocking Detention by the Larne House Visitors Group. Larne House is a short-term holding facility near Belfast. People are detained there for short periods of time before being transferred to another detention centre [...]

Unlocked2022-10-05T20:03:59+00:00November 16th, 2015|

#Unlocked15 at Cedars

This week, Unlocking Detention virtually visited Cedars 'pre-departure accommodation' (i.e. a detention centre) for families and children. Cedars opened in August 2011 after the Coalition Government's promise to end detention of children in Yarl's Wood. Cedars is in [...]

Unlocked2022-10-05T20:04:51+00:00November 13th, 2015|

Keys to freedom: Bristol Immigration Detention Campaign

This blog post was written by Rissa Mohabir, coordinator of the Bristol Immigration Detention Campaign. BIDC are members of the Detention Forum. With the impending parliamentary debate on detention on September 10th, Bristol Immigration Detention Campaign staged Pop Up [...]

Unlocked2022-10-05T20:06:05+00:00November 11th, 2015|

Unlocking Detention visits Campsfield House

Now over half-way through Unlocking Detention 2015, last week we virtually visited Campsfield House detention centre in Kidlington, near Oxford. https://twitter.com/GioFassetta/status/661618241710764033 Campsfield was originally a young offenders' institute but opened as a detention centre in 1993. It was [...]

Unlocked2022-10-05T20:07:14+00:00November 10th, 2015|

We should see detainees as our equals in the eyes of God

This post was written by Caroline Grogan, Communications and Media Officer for Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN). CSAN are members of the Detention Forum. The issue of immigration detention is particularly important to CSAN, which works with the [...]

Unlocked2022-10-05T20:10:45+00:00November 10th, 2015|