A culture of revenue and profit-driven performance incentives has too often been misaligned with the needs of the public who fund and depend on these services. Margaret Hodge MP writes on the Public Accounts Committee's new report on the contracting out of public services.
The privatisation of military force causes problems that can’t be addressed by regulation alone.
Four years ago G4S was involved in the unlawful killing of an immigration detainee called Jimmy Mubenga. Now they're winning NHS contracts to care for detainees.
Britain’s leading children’s charity helps the world’s biggest security company lock up children who have committed no crime.
A toxic mix of drastic cuts and fewer staff, rising prison numbers and harsher and less purposeful regimes are putting the clock back on prison reform.
A company called Mitie cleans Odeon cinemas and NHS hospitals . . . Now, all of a sudden, they're the UK government's favoured supplier for locking up immigration detainees. How did that happen?
• Honour citation sheds light on security industry's role in 'War on Terror'.• G4S Gurkhas deployed against environmental protesters in the UK.
A Scottish Refugee Council report adds weight to calls for UK-wide review of asylum housing.
G4S, the UK government outsourcer that supports Israeli security services on the West Bank, will serve Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
Yesterday Chris Grayling, who is both Minister of State for Justice (dismantling the legal aid system) and Lord Chancellor (sworn to uphold the rule of law), gave evidence before the House of Commons Justice Committee.
• For almost an hour after Steve Ham was found unresponsive, G4S guards failed to call an ambulance• Panic, inexperience, understaffing and lack of transparency exposed at UK's flagship private prison• “An excellent model for the future of the Prison Service,” said justice minister Chris Grayling
In London, at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, rape survivors protest against the UK government's treatment of women fleeing sexual violence
