D. Illegalen Barakken Immigration Detention Facility. (read full CPT report)202. Foreign nationals held under aliens legislation in Curaçao are detained at IllegalenBarakken, an immigration detention facility located right next to SDKK. Their detention can beordered, by an inspector of the Curaçao Police Force, responsible for immigration cases. Detentionis ordered only in combination with an expulsion […]
Simpson Bay Remand Centre
(from report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture 2014 visit to SINT MAARTEN and Caribbean parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) b. Simpson Bay Remand Centre. (Read full CPT report)244. Simpson Bay was built as an immigration detention centre and a Judicial Permission of 25November 2011 and signed by the Minister […]
Centro Dakota Immigration Detention Facility (from report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture 2014 visit to Aruba and Caribbean parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
B. Centro Dakota Immigration Detention Facility (read full CPT report) 67. In the course of the 2014 visit, the delegation carried out a targeted visit to the Centro Dakota immigration detention facility. Foreign nationals held under aliens legislation have been detained at this facility since February 2013. Immigration detention on Aruba falls under the responsibility […]
Bělá-Jezová Detention Centre for Foreigners, (from the report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torturer 2014 visit to Czech Republic)
Detention of foreign nationals under aliens legislation; (Read full CPT report) 23. The delegation visited, for the first time, the Bělá-Jezová Detention Centre for Foreigners, the only establishment of its kind in the Czech Republic. The Centre was opened in 200611 and is located in a forest, some five kilometres away from the nearest municipality. […]
How and Why Immigration Detention Crossed the Globe
This paper details the history of key policy events in various countries that led to the global diffusion of detention practices during the last 30 years and assesses some of the motives that appear to have encouraged this phenomenon. In telling this story, this paper seeks to flesh out some of the larger policy implications […]