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Long-term detention of migrants remains unaddressed at Brook House detention centre
Photo by Phil Botha on Unsplash In the report published today, the Prison Inspector urges the Home Office to take a ‘remedial action’ to address continuing long-term immigration detention of [...]
What do these immigration detention statistics tell us?
The immigration detention statistics published yesterday show no sign that significant and coherent detention reform is being implemented by the Home Office. The two recent major inquiries into the state of [...]
Detention Forum statement – the death at Morton Hall detention centre
Image by @Carcazan We are saddened by yet another death in immigration detention last week in Morton Hall detention centre in Lincolnshire. It has been reported by the Guardian newspaper that a [...]
Unlocking Detention 2016 ends, but our work continues
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 [...]
Another 100 beds at Gatwick site: expansion by stealth?
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 [...]
Unlocking Detention 2016: be part of shining a spotlight in the shadows
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 [...]
Colnbrook Detention Centre inspection – a mixed picture and a need for a ‘strict time limit’
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 [...]
UK’s National Preventive Mechanism calls for a time limit on immigration detention
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 [...]
Closure of Cedars Pre-Departure Accommodation announced
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, [...]
A new Immigration Minister, a new challenge?
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 [...]
Social media volunteers needed! Deadline 24 July 2016
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 [...]
‘With a heavy heart, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.’
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 [...]