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The Government’s chief inspector of prisons recently published his findings from the unannounced inspection of Derwentside IRC. We are keen to echo the views of our member No to Hassockfield [...]

At our last Detention Forum members' meeting we took time to reflect on the current challenging external environment as seek to develop our mission of ending the use of immigration [...]

As we approach the end of the year, we are keen to highlight the recent report by the Independent Monitoring Board on the use of force on people in immigration [...]

We are keen to promote the National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention on Saturday, 18 October 2025 at Derwentside (Hassockfield) detention centre organised by our friends at Right [...]

We are keen to highlight the new report from the Jesuit Refugee Service on Accessing legal advice in detention: becoming an impossibility. The report highlights that it is extraordinarily difficult [...]

Our friends at Migrant Voice have recently produced a new newspaper in both hard copy and online formats, and we were delighted to see that they featured the powerful story [...]

We are keen to promote the new report by Women for Refugee Women on immigration detention, A Decade of Harm, has officially launched today! The research was designed and carried [...]

We don't often have our breath taking away quite so strongly as after we watched the recent video produced by our friends at AVID. Their new animated video exposes what [...]

As the new Border Security Bill works its way through the House of Commons, we were keen to see the latest UNHCR perspective on the Bill  In particular we were [...]

We are delighted that recently Parliamentarians held a meeting to re-establish the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Immigration Detention. Following a vote by the membership, Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP (Labour) was [...]

We are keen to promote this new briefing from the Migration Observatory, which examines immigration detention in the UK. It discusses who is detained, for how long, with what effects, [...]

At our last members meeting we heard about the work of our media group at our meeting. Our media group contains people with lived experience of immigration detention in the [...]