Why did UK commercial contractors G4S and Jomast paint asylum seekers’ doors red? Why did they ignore complaints for years?
Ken Fero's award-winning films about black deaths at the hands of the police in Britain record the continuing struggle to get justice. They have never been broadcast in the UK. Part of our partnership with the Unorthodocs programme of screenings and events.
The former prisons Ombudsman Stephen Shaw has urged ministers to reduce immigration detention “boldly and without delay”.
For years the Howard League and others have warned of abuse of child inmates in secure training centres. Now the BBC’s Panorama programme has caught it on camera.
Corporations bleed what profits they can from disaster. Democracy is replaced by a business plan. An excerpt from Antony Loewenstein’s Disaster Capitalism: Making A Killing Out Of Catastrophe.
The world's largest security company shows how to undermine a rigorous and shocking account of racism and degrading treatment at a child prison.
Barbara is an asylum seeker living in the UK. How the government’s immigration crackdown creates opportunities for humiliation and profit.
“They look at you like you’re a dog, making you strip is bang out of order.” The final shocking extract from Children Behind Bars.
Joseph Scholes and Adam Rickwood died within weeks of being placed in penal institutions. Carolyne Willow met the boys’ mothers, and tells their stories in her shocking book, Children Behind Bars.
Thirty-three children have died in English child prisons since 1990. A powerful new book exposes how Britain’s most vulnerable children are routinely damaged by the state.
National Audit Office issues damning report on outsourcing model that claims to guarantee value for money.
Why would the UK government let its commercial contractor get away with housing vulnerable asylum seekers in dangerous slums?
