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Responses to the Panorama documentary on Brook House Immigration Detention Centre – will the government be let off the hook again?
Responses to the Panorama documentary on Brook House Immigration Detention Centre - will the government be let off the hook again? The undercover Panorama documentary on Brook House Immigration Detention Centre prompted [...]
Why you need to speak to politicians now: how to use Detention Forum’s latest briefing paper on immigration detention
Our parliamentary latest briefing paper, Immigration Detention in the United Kingdom, is now available. You can download it here. Now is the time that you speak to your MPs, Peers and [...]
Our response to Brook House G4S staff abuse allegations
The Detention Forum statement in response to the news of G4S suspending its staff as part of abuse investigation. 'We welcome the news that G4S has suspended nine staff members [...]
The latest detention statistics show the Government’s detention reform remains undelivered
Image by @Carcazan The latest detention statistics released today reveal that the Government is failing to drastically reduce the use of immigration detention as recommended by the Parliamentary Inquiry and [...]
Have you read the latest CPT factsheet on Immigration Detention?
Photo by Calvin Hanson on Unsplash Have you read the latest CPT factsheet on Immigration Detention? In March 2017, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhumane or [...]
What will the next Government do about immigration detention?
Photo by Edwin Andrade on Unsplash What will the next Government do about immigration detention? Who is going to be your next MP? Ask your parliamentary candidates if they agree it’s [...]
Westminister Hall debate on Detention of Vulnerable Persons 14 March 2017
At the last Quarterly Meeting of the Detention Forum in April 2017, we had a chance to reflect on the recent Westminster Hall debate on Detention of Vulnerable Persons, led [...]
Morton Hall detention centre – a threefold rise in self-harm, increased safety concerns and continuing long-term detention
There has been a threefold increase in self-harm and a decline in safety in Morton Hall immigration detention centre, according to the inspection report published today. The report also highlights [...]
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 [...]