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UK: DETENTION: A Joint Inquiry by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees & the All Party Parliamentary Group on Migration

24 August 2015

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"Key Recommendations:

• There should be a time limit of 28 days on the length of time anyone can be held in immigration detention.
• Detention is currently used disproportionately frequently, resulting in too many instances of detention. The presumption in theory and practice should be in favour of community-based resolutions and against detention.
• Decisions to detain should be very rare and detention should be for the shortest possible time and only to effect removal.
• The Government should learn from international best practice and introduce a much wider range of alternatives to detention than are currently used in the UK"

See the full text: The Report of the Inquiry into the Use of Immigration Detention in the United Kingdom (pdf)

and see: Border Criminologies: An Assessment of the Report of the Inquiry into the Use of Immigration Detention in the United Kingdom (Refugee Archives, link)

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