Voices From Detention | Bail for Immigration Detainees

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Eve “It is not the punishment, it is the separation that breaks me.”

Malachi "Does the Home Office have a heart? Because it seems like its broken , Like one made out of glass "

David "I was kept in prison for more than a year as I appealed against my deportation. Years later, my body still aches from the brutality of the place."

Sam "I started to realise I wasn’t really free. And people did come to my door. Not prison guards, but people from a private security company."

Michael "Immigration officers would come to see me monthly and threaten that if I didn’t sign to go back voluntarily I would just stay in prison"

Omar "It’s like when you watch TV and you watch a tsunami come. You see it coming, and then after when it goes, you see the destruction."

Anna "He called out several times for help about his mental health and no one came. He was really distressed."

Adil "If you’re in prison, you know you will do your time and go home. In detention, you don’t know when you are gonna go home. It’s a horrible place"

Mani “I couldn’t even put it into words to be honest, it’s like a black hole you can’t get out of"

Helen "When I used to hear that people had committed suicide, I used to say that nothing would make me take away my life."

Michael "Detention destroyed my life, I lost any hope, I never imagined a future."

Dilip "If they refuse me that’s alright, because I don’t want to stay in this country, because I don’t want to waste my life in the detention centre."

Selina "Not being able to go out, to do things, to move on, being locked up... Sometimes it’s like somebody’s suffocating me, like I can’t breathe..."

Hafez "Detention is like prison, you are locked up. There is no difference between prison and detention.

Luisa "I’ve seen other people suffering, because you think you are suffering, and then you see someone else suffering even more than you".

Amadou "The difficult thing about being in detention is not knowing where you are, where you stand basically. They don’t give you much information."

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