Tigs Louis-Puttick is the founder of Reclaim The Sea, a UK-based organisation teaching refugees with sea-related trauma to swim and surf, and recently launched the ongoing campaign No Floating Prisons to challenge the Home Office’s plans to house asylum seekers on barges. She is also a search and rescue coordinator with Sea-Watch, a civil sea rescue charity.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionDeadly Greece shipwreck makes case against ‘floating prisons’ even starker
This search and rescue worker has helped refugees in distress at sea. Those people shouldn’t be housed in barges
