Wednesday 11 March 2009, by London Detainee Support Group
Detained Lives reveals the ineffectiveness and the human impact of the UK’s hidden practice of indefinite immigration detention without time limits. It presents the perspectives of people detained for more than a year on all aspects of detention. The research explores whether indefinite detention achieves its stated aims of deporting people, through analysis of London Detainee Support Group’s case files. The evidence suggests that indefinite detention simply does not work: as a means of deporting people it is ineffective and grossly inefficient . The testimony of detainees shows the human cost to be vast: the opaque implementation of detention without time limits leads many people to despair.
Document : http://www.detainedlives.org/wp-content/uploads/detainedlives.pdf