Jerome Phelps is the Director of Detention Action, where he has worked with migrants in immigration detention since 2003. Detention Action is a national charity that supports people in immigration detention and campaigns for changes to detention policy. Jerome has written or co-written four reports on detention, including Point of No Return: the futile detention of unreturnable migrants (2014). Follow Detention Action on Twitter: @DetentionAction
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Published in: 50.50Why is so much art about the ‘refugee crisis’ so bad?Even at a celebrity art gala you can don an emergency blanket and feel good about yourself. Hard political...
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Published in: 50.50Arresting the mass detention of migrants: ‘Build trust, not walls’The pragmatic development of alternatives to detention with civil society at the fore can help to arrest the slide...
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Published in: 50.50The Fast Track is deadThe systematic detention of asylum seekers in the UK has reached the end of the track. The Home Office needs to let...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EU must not leave Greece to solve the migration crisisStill, the boats come. Detention, as a solution to this, would have to be on a scale hitherto unimaginable in the...
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Published in: 50.50After the fast track: what next for the detention of asylum seekers?UK courts have ruled the routine detention of asylum seekers undergoing accelerated claims to be ‘systemically...
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Published in: 50.50Interrupting the implacable: fighting the Detained Fast TrackThe UK Court of Appeal will hear an appeal this week over the lawfulness of automatically detaining asylum seekers...