Useful Reading and Key Publications on Detention

General Detention

• The Detention Forum (2018) Why a 28 day time limit on immigration detention? Working paper

• British Red Cross (2018) Never Truly Free: The humanitarian impact of the UK immigration detention system

• Amnesty International (2017) A Matter of Routine (Report) and the Executive Summary
• Migration Observatory (2016) Immigration Detention Briefing
• International Detention Coalition (2015) Does Detention Deter?
• House of Commons Library Briefing Paper (2015): Immigration Detention: An Overview
• Detention Action (2014) The State of Detention: Immigration Detention in the UK in 2014
• Forced Migration Review (2013) Special Edition: Detention, Alternatives to Detention and Deportation  
• Migration Observatory (2011) Immigration Detention: Policy Challenges

Alternatives

• International Detention Coalition(2022) Using Alternatives to Detention (ATD) as a Systems Change Strategy
• Women For Refugee Women (2017) The Way Ahead: An asylum system without detention
• Detention Action (2016) Without Detention: Opportunities for Alternatives
• International Detention Coalition (2015) There are Alternatives: A Handbook for Preventing Unnecessary Immigration Detention

Brook House Inquiry: follow-up reports.

• JRSUK (2024) - After Brook House:continued abuses in immigration detention
• Medical Justice(2023) - “IF HE DIES, HE DIES” What has changed since the Brook House Inquiry?

Children in Detention

• The Children's Commissioner (2017) Children’s Voices: A review of evidence on the subjective wellbeing of children in detention in England
• Gatwick Detainee Welfare Group (GDWG) (2017) Don't dump me in a foreign land : Immigration detention and young arrivers
• Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) (2013) Fractured Childhoods: the separation of families by immigration detention
• Bail for Immigration Detainees (2011) Last Resort or First Resort? Immigration Detention of children in the UK

Complaints

• Medical Justice (2014) Biased and Unjust: The Immigration Detention Complaints Process

Deaths in Detention

• Bail for Immigration Detainees(2023) Micheal's comments on preventing deaths in custody
• Institute of Race Relations (2015) Dying for Justice
• Medical Justice (2016) Death in Immigration Detention 2010 - 2015

Detained Fast Track

• Detention Action (2011) Fast Track to Despair: the unnecessary detention of asylum seekers

Healthcare and issues of vulnerability

• Royal College of Psychiatrists (2021) Position Statement: Detention of people with mental disorders in immigration removal centres (IRCs)
• Medical Justice (2019) Failure to Protect : from the harm of immigration detention
• British Medical Association (2017) Locked Up, Locked Out: Health and Human Rights in Immigration Detention
• Gatwick Detainee Welfare Group (2012) A prison in the mind: the mental health implications of detention in Brook House IRC
• Medical Justice (2012) The Second Torture: the immigration detention of torture survivors
• AVID  & BID (2012) Positive Duty of Care? The Mental Health Crisis in Immigration Detention
• Medical Justice (2011) Detained and Denied: the clinical care of immigration detainees living with HIV

Immigration detention in prisons

• Lucy Slade (2015) Foreign National Prisoners: best practice in prison and resettlement
• Bail for Immigration Detainees (2014) Denial of Justice: the hidden use of UK prisons for immigration detention

Inspections

• Global Detention Project (2016) Can Inspection bring about meaningful change in detention?

Legal

• Bail for Immigration Detainees (2023): Hurdle After Hurdle: The Struggle for Advice and Representation through Exceptional Case Funding
• Institute for Voluntary Action Research (2017): Detained Fast Track Litigation Case Study: Detention Action, Using the law for social change

• Bar Council (2017): Injustice in Immigration Detention, Perspectives from legal professionals
• Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (2015): Cutting Justice: the impacts of the legal aid cuts for people detained in Brook House and Tinsley House IRCs
• Bail for Immigration Detainees (2014) Surveys of levels of legal representation for immigration detainees across the UK detention estate (Surveys 1-8)
• Bail for Immigration Detainees (2014): No place to go: delays in the Home Office provision of S4(1) (c) bail accommodation
• Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law (2013) Immigration Detention and the Rule of Law: Safeguarding Principles
• Bail Observation Project (2013): Still a travesty:  Justice in Immigration Bail Hearings (Second Report)
• Bail for Immigration Detainees (2012): The liberty deficit: long-term detention & bail decision-making. A study of immigration bail hearings in the First Tier Tribunal
• Bail Observation Project (2011): Immigration Bail Hearings: A travesty of Justice? Observations from the public gallery

LGBTQI+

• Rainbow Migration: Parliamentary Briefing: Ending the immigration detention of LGBTQI+ people - Rainbow Migration
• UKLGIG and Stonewall (2016) No Safe Refuge: Experiences of LGBT asylum seekers in detention

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Statelessness

• European Network on Statelessness (2016) Protecting Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Detention in the UK

Trafficking

• Women for Refugee Women (2019) "From one hell to another : the detention of Chinese women who have been trafficked to the UK"

• After Exploitation project (2019) "Supported or deported? Understanding deportation and detention data on human trafficking and slavery" (Briefing)

• JRS UK (2019) "Survivors of Trafficking in Immigration Detention" (Briefing)

• Detention Action (2017) Trafficked Into Detention: How victims of trafficking are missed in detention (Briefing)

Use of Segregation

• Medical Justice (2015): A Secret Punishment: The misuse of segregation in immigration detention

Vulnerability and Adults at Risk

• Medical Justice (2022): Detained and discarded: Vulnerable people released from immigration detention in medically unsafe way
• Bail for Immigration Detainees (2018): Adults at Risk: the ongoing struggle for vulnerable adults in detention
• Medical Justice (2018): Putting Adults at Risk: A Guide to Understanding the Home Office's "Adult's at Risk" Policy and its History

• AVID and GDWG (Detention Forum) (2015): Rethinking Vulnerability: A Crisis of Harm in Immigration Detention

Women in Detention

• Justice First, written by Dr Lucy Williams (2023): Briefing Paper Women in Immigration Detention
• Women for Refugee Women (2017): We are still here: The continued detention of women seeking asylum in Yarl's Wood
• Women for Refugee Women (2015): I am Human: Refugee Women’s Experiences of Detention in the UK
• Women for Refugee Women (2014): Detained: Women Asylum Seekers locked up in the UK
• Medical Justice (2013) Expecting Change: the case for ending the detention of pregnant women

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