 How we help detainees |
| LDSG supports immigration detainees in Harmondsworth and Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centres through the following services:
[img align=right]http://www.ldsg.org.uk/files/uploads/img46cc15c3631b7.jpg[/img] volunteer visitors, who make regular visits to individual detainees to give emotional support to enable them to cope with their detention;
the detainee freephone service, which is open to detainees in Harmondsworth and Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centres during office hours, and which enables detainees with limited access to telephone cards to access our service and contact the outside world in an emergency;
asylum support advice, enabling asylum-seeking detainees to access statutory housing support, to prepare for release and to enable them to apply for bail;
general practical assistance, including help in contacting solicitors, bail representatives, specialist service providers, community organisations, friends and family;
LDSG also assists people in detention to be heard in the wider debate on immigration and detention policy, through the "Detained Lives" campaign. [url=http://www.detainedlives.org]www.detainedlives.org[/url]
LDSG does not provide immigration advice. Information on registered immigration solicitors can be found at http://www.clsdirect.org.uk/directory/directorySearch?lang=en .
For advice on applying for bail, detainees should contact Bail for Immigration Detainees, www.biduk.org .
If you are in Harmondsworth or Colnbrook Detention Centres and would like our support, please call us on the freephone 0800 587 2096. If your friend or relative is in Harmondsworth or Colnbrook, please give them our number, or call us on 020 7226 3114.
[i] I could not believe that you could be so helpful ! Rich is doing wonders. He is even coming to court with me. Thank everyone in your organisation for me. I hope that one day I will get my freedom and be part of you. [/i]
Jonathan, Colnbrook Detention Centre
[i]All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting agony and woes, but I can not do it and never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.[/i]
David, Harmondsworth
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