"Key Recommendations: • There should be a time limit of 28 days on the length of time anyone can be held in immigration detention. • Detention is currently used disproportionately frequently, resulting in too many
“Key Recommendations:
• There should be a time limit of 28 days on the length of time anyone can be held in immigration detention.
• Detention is currently used disproportionately frequently, resulting in too many instances of detention. The presumption in theory and practice should be in favour of community-based resolutions and against detention.
• Decisions to detain should be very rare and detention should be for the shortest possible time and only to effect removal.
• The Government should learn from international best practice and introduce a much wider range of alternatives to detention than are currently used in the UK”
See the full text: The Report of the Inquiry into the Use of Immigration Detention in the United Kingdom (pdf)
and see: Border Criminologies: An Assessment of the Report of the Inquiry into the Use of Immigration Detention in the United Kingdom (Refugee Archives, link)