All posts tagged: "Dungavel"
- Some good news, but so much more to be done
In this blog, we take a look at the latest detention statistics, published by the Home Office on 28 February. There is no doubt that…
- ‘Everyone should say to politicians: “put a time limit on detention”. It’s the biggest thing.’
SDV director, Kate Alexander, blogs about a conversation with ‘Lucy’, currently detained in Dungavel As the Immigration and Social Security Coordination Bill makes its way…
- Latest Dungavel inspection report provides more evidence that it’s #Time4aTimeLimit on immigration detention
Forty one per cent of people detained in Dungavel felt unsafe according to a HMIP inspection report published today. A survey of the 82 people…
- 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…