Do detention companies deliberately escalate tensions so they can extract more money from governments? Bart Denaro, Antony Loewenstein, Ramesh Fernandez and Brynn O'Brien shine a light on a thriving trade in human misery.
“I see people walking around with their mum and dad and I can’t even talk to my family.” A child flees Afghanistan for the UK. What happens next?
Four years ago the coalition government promised to end child detention for immigration purposes. But they didn't. Instead, the UK's biggest children's charity and security giant G4S created a prettier prison.
Lack of legal representation. Poor medical care. Threat of solitary confinement. Immigration detainees in England and Scotland protest against what they claim is routine inhumanity by the state and its commercial contractors.
Filthy cells with broken windows, open to the elements. Life in England's worst prison — and it's for young people.
A Parliamentary watchdog reports on the dangerous consequences of an ill-conceived, badly planned and poorly executed rush to privatise
A Q&A with Clare Sambrook, OurKingdom co-editor and co-founder of the End Child Detention Now campaign. Interviewer: Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi, writer-in-residence at Lacuna.
What happens after a government outsourcer fails shareholders and the public, and the boss loses his job? Nick Buckles gets £1,200,000 — and a pension of more than £400,000 a year.
The hidden injuries of asylum housing — inflicted by G4S.
On Thursday the Crown Prosecution Service announced that three former G4S guards, Stuart Tribelnig, Terry Hughes and Colin Kaler, would stand trial for the manslaughter of Jimmy Mubenga on a BA plane in October 2010. Long before Mubenga's death, Lord Ramsbotham was among those who warned repeatedl
The government keeps taxpayers in the dark about billions paid to private contractors. A Parliamentary watchdog demands transparency and proof that competition exists.
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