All posts tagged: "Dungavel"
- The wait is over, the second Shaw Review is finally published
In this blog, SDV director, Kate Alexander, takes a look at the follow up to 2016’s Shaw Review and presents an overview of its findings.…
- Detention Dialogues at the Glad Cafe
In this blog, SDV director Kate Alexander reports on our Refugee Festival Scotland event on 19 June at the Glad Cafe A darkened room, two…
- Dear Amber Rudd
On Tuesday 19 September, a Chinese man was found dead at Dungavel. On the same day, a man detained with him wrote an email about…
- Nearly four years in detention? At GE2017, it’s time for a time limit
In this blogpost SDV director Kate Alexander looks at the latest detention figures: the last to be released before the General Election Figures released today reveal that…
- I’ll never forget . . .
We asked our visitors to write a few sentences about a memorable experience they had while volunteering with SDV. We asked them to start with…
- Dungavel stays open . . . but there are alternatives
We learned on Friday 3 February that the Home Office would not be appealing Renfrewshire Council’s refusal of planning permission for its proposed Short Term…
- Support our work!
SDV committee member, Sarah Anderson, launches our new fundraising drive I first stepped inside an immigration removal centre ten years ago. At the time I…
- Statement on the announcement that Dungavel is to close
The Home Office announced today that Dungavel will close toward the end of 2017. It also announced plans to open a new 51 bed Short…
- Quarterly musings
In this blog post, SDV director Kate Alexander reflects on what she learns from our visit reports. Every three months, I sit down and compile…
- Drowning in Limbo
In this new post we share a poem from another member of our Life After Detention group, Gry Turin, who like most people who’ve been…