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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 time limit for anyone in immigration detention with judicial oversight Develop the [...]

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 detention. We do hope that you can join us next week as [...]

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 in the annual report by the independent monitoring board for the Gatwick [...]

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 of this letter urged the government to abandon their plans. The joint [...]

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 MP asked a question of the new Home Office Minister, Angela Eagle [...]

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 been found by the Chief Inspector to have the most serious categories [...]

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 detention. This key findings of this report are important reading for anyone [...]

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 and we had around 50 of our members in attendance. Our meeting [...]