This article by Phil Miller and Clare Sambrook is from Open Democracy. Image: painting by Lucy Edkins from Mental Health in Immigration Detention Action Group Initial Report December 2013. Four years ago G4S was involved in the unlawful [...]
Campaign to Close Campsfield is a campaign group based in Oxford which has been calling for a closure of Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre for many years. They are one of the members of the Detention Forum. We [...]
This article by Melanie Griffiths originally appeared in Open Democracy's #unlocked series. Alongside calls for the reduction or ending of immigration detention, we must demand more balanced coverage from our media. Melanie Griffiths reports on two decades of [...]
This article was written by Jerome Phelps of Detention Action, a member of the Detention Forum. The article first appeared in Open Democracy on 15 September. A young Guinean woman has become the sixth victim in three years [...]
This article was written by Rita Chadha of RAMFEL (Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex and London), a member of the Detention Forum. The article was originally published in Open Democracy as part of the #unlocked series. [...]
By Charlie Leddy-Owen, University of Portsmouth. When visiting Haslar Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) for the first time I was struck by the pleasantness of the local area. Haslar’s western boundary adjoins a residential neighbourhood of detached and semi-detached [...]
We received this blog entry from Henry who is in Haslar Immigration Removal Centre. My name is Henry, aged 53, and though of Nigerian and Sierra Leonean mixed parentage, I have spent the last 31 years of my [...]
Refugee Action are members of the Detention Forum and used to provide advice about assisted return to people in detention, before the Home Office withdrew the contract. These are some of the experiences of one of their caseworkers. [...]
Ali McGinley of AVID - a member of the Detention Forum - writes for the #Unlocked series in Open Democracy on detention in short-term holding facilities. Key statutory instruments governing the use of detention do not apply to [...]
Image courtesy of Freed Voices This post was written by Ivo Kuka, who has experienced immigration detention. His testimony was provided for Detention Action's forthcoming annual report. In 2008, the Independent Asylum Commission did an assessment of the UK’s [...]