What types of problems do detainees experience?
It is impossible to list all the problems and difficulties that people in detention experience: there are too many. The following list is intended to give you some ideas about the types of the problem people in detention are likely to come across. Click the links to find out what various groups and individuals want to say on these matters . Please note that these are groups’/individuals’ views and is not the Detention Forum’s. If your organisation wants to contribute to this page, please contact asylumrights(at)gmail.com.
- Isolation and shame
- Negative effect on mental and physical health (Zimbabwe Association)
- Anxiety and frustration of not knowing their fate
- Difficulty in accessing legal advice and representation / exercising their rights (NCADC)
- Lack of access to the Internet (AVID)
- Length of detention (LDSG)
- Detained Fast Track
- Frequent transfers between Immigration Removal Centres (GDWG)
- Lack of interpreters / translation
- Immigration detainees held in prisons
- Access to healthcare
- Detention of vulnerable people such as children, people with serious health problems, pregnant women, torture survivors
- Impact on their families and communities
- Planned expansion of the detention estate
- Alleged assaults by escorts employed by security companies
- Inadequate complaints procedures
- Statelesness
- Self-harm in detention
- Problems after leaving detention (DDVG)
