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This year at Unlocking Detention we’re asking people to send us their photo-answers to the question: ‘What would you miss if you were locked up, without trial, without time-limit?’ Or, alternatively, if you have been in detention, your photo-answer to the question: ‘What did you miss most when you were [...]

After the visit to the Verne, we moved round the coast and last week, 5 to 11 October, Unlocking Detention 'visited' Dover detention centre.  https://twitter.com/DetentionForum/status/650955106565816321 https://twitter.com/DetentionForum/status/650954091388997632 We had some great blog posts throughout the week - first up was Fraser from Samphire's article on Dover and how improvements to conditions [...]

This year, Unlocking Detention is exploring how detention affects communities across the UK - not just where detention centres are located.  This blog post is written by an artist who is a member of an asylum/immigration support group in Liverpool, about the detention and enforced removal of a leading light [...]

This blogpost is part of ‘Thinking Outside the Box’ - a Detention Action series which featuring the reflections of those with direct experience of detention, or of working with people in detention. This piece was written by Joe from the Freed Voices group especially for Unlocking Detention, which this week [...]

Sonja Miley who works at Waging Peace - a human rights organisation which campaigns against genocide and systematic human rights violations in Sudan, and an active member of the Detention Forum - writes about her experience of watching the parliamentary debate on immigration detention live from the gallery on 10th September 2015. Experiencing [...]

The first stop of this year's Unlocking Detention tour was the Verne detention centre. https://twitter.com/DetentionForum/status/649889152616525824 Last year when we visited the Verne, it was still a prison.  It has recently become the latest addition to the detention estate in May 2015. This smooth transition from 'prison' to '(administrative)detention centre' is, [...]

This blog post is written by Gemma Pillay, from Nottingham.  She works for the Nottingham and Notts Refugee Forum.  On Sunday 28th June 2015 I received a text from my friend Imran: Hello gemma its Imran here I went to loughborouh for sign and they detained me can you help [...]

This piece was written by Fraser Paterson, who works at Samphire. You can follow them on Twitter at @samphire_ Many people will know Dover as Britain’s main border with Europe and living here you are occasionally reminded on those clear days when you can see Calais. However, for Unlocking Detention [...]