There has been debate about alternatives to detention.
Common elements of a solution include:
[information from other countries]:
there are community-based approaches that have a casework and welfare focus,
and community-based approaches that primarily use restrictive conditions to encourage compliance.
Given the limited capacity of the detention estate, the most obvious alternative to detention is simply to not detain.
Evidence:
a lack of evidence that families systematically disappear pending judicial review or other legal appeals;
questioning about why it is so often used,
and why children are subjected to spending relatively long periods of time in the detention estate. Continue reading “Alternatives to detention”