Architects' drawing of the proposed centre.
Over three storeys high, it would be the biggest in Europe, and six times the size of Sainsbury's in Kidlington.

PUBLIC MEETING
DIGNITY NOT DETENTION!
7.30 Thursday 2 September 2010
In the Garden Room, Friends Meeting House 43 St. Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW

Speakers: Jacki Esposito, Policy Co-ordinator, Detention Watch Network in the US will speak on Detention Reform and the Search for Alternatives + Eiri Ohtani, Detention Forum in the UK

The Detention Watch Network is a national coalition of organizations working to educate the public and policy makers about the US immigration and deportation system and to advocate for humane reform. The Detention Forum was formed from the Detention Sub Group of the Asylum Rights Campaign in 2009. It provides a space for organizations to come together, discuss and share ideas about how to challenge UK government policy on immigration detention.

The Coalition Against the Bullingdon Immigration Removal Centre was launched in November 2008 to oppose the Government's plan to open a new 800 bed detention centre near Bicester on the grounds that it would be inhumane, costly, and unnecessary.  In June 2010, the Coalition Government put these plans on hold but CABIRC remains committed to opposing any extension of detention in the UK and to campaign for detention reform.

You can download our full submission to Cherwell District Council Planning Committee
Or read briefly about why we oppose the centre
For detailed information about the reality of immigration detention centres you can read the recent report
'Detained Lives: the real cost of indefinite immigration detention'

cabirc supporters include:

Individuals:
Kaye Adshead, playwright
Robb Johnson, singer songwriter
Leon Rosselson, singer songwriter
Benjamin Zephaniah, poet

Non-governmental organisations:
Actors For Refugees
Asylum Welcome, Oxford
Bicester Refugee Support group former members
Campaign to Close Campsfield
Network of Oxford Women for Justice and Peace
Refugee Resource, Oxford

Political and trade union
Oxford & District Trades Union Council
Oxford District Labour Party (incl. Oxford East and Oxford (West) and Abingdon constituencies)
Banbury Constituency Labour Party
Oxfordshire Green Party
Banbury Constituency Liberal Democrats
UNISON Oxford University & Colleges Branch

Bicester Chamber of Commerce has called for the planning application to be turned down on the ground that the applicant has not established overriding need for the centre.