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Research & reports

Based on casework evidence, Medical Justice carries out research and publishes reports to help to bring about policy change and improve healthcare for people in immigration detention. Since publication of some of our reports, there have been significant changes, in particular for children and pregnant women, and greater recognition of the damage detention does to health, especially mental health.

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2024

“You’ll see the outside when you’re in Rwanda”

Mistreatment in UK detention and mass round ups for forced removals 

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2023

‘Constantly on edge’

The expansion of GPS tagging and the rollout of non-fitted devices

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2023

“If He Dies, He Dies”

What has changed since the Brook House Inquiry?

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2023

Clinical Safeguards Continue to Fail Across All IRCs

Dossier evidencing ongoing failures in immigration detention

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2022

Every Move You Make

The human impact of GPS tagging in immigration bail

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2022

Abuse by the system

Survivors of trafficking in immigration detention

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2022

Who’s Paying The Price?

The Human Cost Of The Rwanda Scheme

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2022

Harmed Not Heard

Failures in safeguarding for the most vulnerable people in immigration detention

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2022

Detained and Discarded

Vulnerable people released from Immigration Detention in a medically unsafe way

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2021

“Every day is like torture”

Solitary confinement &Immigration detention

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2019

Failure to Protect

From the harm of Immigration Detention

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2018

Putting Adults at Risk

A guide to understanding the Home Office's "Adults at Risk" policy and its history

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2015

Death in Immigration Detention

2000 - 2015

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2015

A Secret Punishment

The misuse of segregation in Immigration Detention

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2014

Healthwatch and Immigration Removal Centres

Asylum Seekers in Detention Centres

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2014

Biased and Unjust

The Immigration Detention Complaints Process

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2013

Mental Health In Immigration Detention

Action Group: Initial Report

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2013

Expecting Change

The case for ending the detention of pregnant women

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2012

The Second Torture

The immigration detention of torture survivors

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2011

Detained and Denied

The clinical care of immigration detainees living with HIV

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2010

State Sponsored Cruelty

Children in immigration detention

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2008

Outsourcing abuse

The use and misuse of state-sanctioned force during the detention and removal of asylum seekers

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2007

Beyond Comprehension and Decency

An introduction to the work of Medical Justice

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The strength of a liberal democracy is measured not by how it treats the majority but by how it cares for minorities and those at the margins of society. The best tests for humanity and decency are conducted in its dark places: in prisons, psychiatric hospitals, and in institutions for failed asylum-seekers and other migrants.

- Stephen Shaw, then Prison and Probation Ombudsman