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Even in Guantanamo They Have Lawyers

Jerome Phelps | Posted 10.05.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Immigration, Legal Aid, Justice, Cuts, Detention, Guatanamo Bay, UK Politics, UK Politics News
Jerome Phelps

Ukip won no seats at that election, of course. Just as they have won no seats since. Yet this week's Queen's Speech shows that, even without policies, Farage is starting to shape Britain in his image. For some migrants, that Britain will look a little like Guantanamo Bay.

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New Legal Challenge to End the Detention of Asylum-Seekers

Jerome Phelps | Posted 30.04.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Migration, UK Impact, Ukba, Detention, Immigration, UK Border Agency, Legal, Asylum, UK Politics News
Jerome Phelps

We are in a high security wing of Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre, just outside Heathrow Airport, to run an advice workshop. Often, we find people with urgent needs for advice and advocacy. But today, almost everyone I see is an asylum-seeker on the Detained Fast Track, which means that there is little that we can do to help.

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PHOTOS: 27 Hilarious Detention Slips

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 05.04.2012 | UK Comedy
Read More: Funny Detention, Funny Detention Notes, Detention Slips, Detention, Funny Detention Slips, Funny Pupils, Slidepollajax, Funny Students, Funny Photos, UK Comedy News

Everybody gets in trouble at school at least once. Sometimes, though, a pupil earns detention for something so bizarre or hilarious that it's worth sh...

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Schools Need Discipline 'Like Corporal Punishment'

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 04.04.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: School Discipline, UK News, UK Teachers, Detention, Discipline, Corporal Punishment, UK Students, Corporal-Punishment-Schools, UK Schools, Atl, UK Universities & Education News

Schools need tough behaviour sanctions to rival corporal punishment as a deterrent for naughty pupils, teachers have warned. Current methods, such ...

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Torture Victims 'Wrongly' Held In Detention

PA | Posted 23.02.2012 | UK
Read More: Home Office, Asylum Seekers, UK Border Agency, UK News, Detention, Asylum, Torture, UK News

Victims of torture are being held in detention while their asylum claims are assessed due to an unsuitable screening process, inspectors have claimed....

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FrightFest 2011: Detention Review

Craig Skinner | Posted 02.11.2011 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Josh Hutcherson, Film, UK Entertainment, PARKER BAGLEY, Ukfilm, Detention, SPENCER LOCKE, Torque, FRIGHTFEST 2011, Dane Cook, Joseph Kahn, UK Entertainment News
Craig Skinner

Joseph Kahn's debut feature Torque was an odd film that led to some pretty fascinating defences, in particular from online critics who believed that t...

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