This week, Unlocking Detention visited Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow airport. Harmondsworth is not only the biggest detention centre (immigration removal centre) in the UK, but also in Europe. Catch with all our tweets - including our twice [...]
This piece was written by Maddy Crowther of Waging Peace, for Unlocking Detention. The article was first published on the Justice Gap, who are partnering with us on #Unlocked15 Detention centres are remote places. Some are marooned in [...]
We asked members of the Verne Visitors group to share their thoughts and experiences on visiting people at the Verne. We were interested to hear what led them to start visiting, what they discovered when they started visiting, [...]
This blog post was written by Music in Detention volunteer, Alicia. I have been volunteering in the office at Music In Detention (MID) for the last two months and I was really excited when I found out I [...]
This was originally published on AVID website, and with their kind permission, republished here. Dover detention centre to close! 26 October 2015 Dover detention centre, which held 401 single male detainees, is to close by the end of [...]
This blog post was written by Susannah Willcox, who is an Advocacy Co-ordinator at Detention Action. Working in this capacity, she regularly visits and runs workshops in Harmondsworth detention centre. This story of Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) [...]
This week it was the turn of Morton Hall to be visited by the virtual Unlocking Detention tour. https://twitter.com/DetentionForum/status/657483619691286528 Morton Hall was built as an RAF base, then served a low security prison. It was re-opened, with more [...]
To mark the Unlocking Detention tour's visit to Morton Hall IRC this week, this Q and A features Michael, a member of the Freed Voices group, and his partner Holly, reflecting on the two years he was detained [...]
This blog post, about "an unlikely friendship, forged behind barbed wire and in the shadow of indefinite detention" was written for Scottish Detainee Visitors, and has been republished by Unlocking Detention with their permission. It was written by [...]
Last week, it was Brook House detention centre's turn to be 'visited' by Unlocking Detention. https://twitter.com/DetentionForum/status/653472708886294528 https://twitter.com/DetentionForum/status/654599119961325568 https://twitter.com/GatDetainees/status/653900797810487296 https://twitter.com/GatDetainees/status/654613143952470016 We had some brilliant articles published during Brook House week. There was a really interesting piece published by our [...]