Governments are increasingly recognizing that detention is both harmful – and costly. Campaigners and researchers consider the merits of current alternatives to large-scale arbitrary detention.
The catastrophe of detention is so huge, it's hard to put into words.
I don't agree with any form of detention, whether it lasts a day or an hour, in the community or in a locked centre. Administrative detention of any group of people is arbitrary and inhumane, whatever shape it takes.
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