Nine college heads are among 70 signatories of an open
letter to the Prime Minister including barrister and principal of Mansfield
College, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC and Professor Dorling, Halford Mackinder
Professor of Geography at St Peter's College, calling on David Cameron to
release detainees at the local
immigration removal centre, Campsfield House in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, and also
calls for the withdrawal of Home Office plans to expand Campsfield, which
houses illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers, from 260 beds to 610.
It stated: "We certainly do not find it acceptable that
they should be detained without trial, without time limit, without proper
judicial oversight and with little chance of bail, and thus treated worse than
criminals."
Prof Danny Dorling said he opposed "the need to lock
people up" when "they have broken no laws".
Oxford University Amnesty International President Jo Hynes, said:
"The UK detains more migrants, for longer and with less judicial oversight
than any other country in Europe, yet the facts are clear: immigration detention
doesn't act as a supposed deterrent to immigration and contravenes basic human
rights."
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