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Published in: Shine A LightEXCLUSIVE: Arrests of suspected undocumented migrants soar in Sheffield, the UK’s first City of Sanctuary
Since Theresa May launched the “Hostile Environment” South Yorkshire Police have arrested hundreds of Sheffielders...
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Published in: Shine A Light15 things I’ve learned about child prisons since the death of Gareth Myatt
Gareth Myatt died 15 years ago today after being restrained by G4S prison guards. Carolyne Willow shares some of...
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Published in: Shine A LightBritain’s housing crisis: Refugee family given just one week to find new home
Jayne and her children won their long battle for the right to stay in the UK. Then they faced a fresh fight, with...
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Published in: Shine A Light‘Please get me moved from here!’ Pregnant woman in G4S asylum housing
Refugee and asylum seeking women are shockingly over-represented in the records of UK maternal deaths. Yet pregnant...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe UK outsourcing experiment: playing with vulnerable lives
A review of Alan White’s Who Really Runs Britain? — the private companies taking control of benefits, prisons,...
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Published in: Shine A Light‘How do we get out if there’s a fire?’ In Yorkshire, G4S tenants live in fear
Security company G4S housed six families with babies and toddlers in a fire-trap hostel in Halifax.
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Published in: Shine A LightFit to run a prison? G4S dodges difficult questions
At a locked down shareholders’ meeting, security company boss sidestepped hard questions, praised BBC exposé of abuse.
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Published in: Shine A LightBehave or get deported, says G4S
EXCLUSIVE: The world’s biggest security company, landlord to asylum-seekers, threatens tenants with expulsion from the UK.
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Published in: Shine A LightFail, fail, and have another government contract
Security contractors G4S and Serco and housing company Clearsprings have for years supplied UK asylum seekers with...
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Published in: Shine A LightWelcome to my asylum home. I’d offer you a seat — if I had one
Meanwhile a parliamentary inquiry into asylum housing lumbers on over ten months . . . and today in Leeds the Home...
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Published in: Shine A LightRats in the yard: 4 years of UK asylum housing by G4S
Today, yet again, a Parliamentary committee will hear how commercial landlords are failing asylum seeker tenants....
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Published in: Shine A LightRough handling and restraint: UK forced removals still a nasty business
A support group gathers disturbing testimony from people deported by commercial contractors Tascor.
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S: Don't blame us — blame the prison system
An activist reports from G4S annual general meeting, Surrey, England, 26 May 2016.
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Published in: Shine A LightBritish security company G4S confirms that Florida shooter is one of their own
• Omar Mateen, who killed 50 people in gay nightclub, was employed as armed guard by G4S.• G4S guards have killed...
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Published in: Shine A LightHow many children are sexually abused in prison?
In England nobody is counting. How official secrecy and obfuscation on sexual abuse, restraint and injury put...
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Published in: Shine A LightFive more arrests and another critical inspection report for G4S child prisons
Children tell inspectors of being verbally, physically and sexually abused. See also How many children are sexually...
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Published in: Shine A LightGhosted away: UK’s secret removal flights examined
On Home Office flights private sector guards apply restraints so extreme they are very rarely used in prisons. What...
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S promises (again) to repaint asylum seeker red doors and relocate families at risk
Four months after 'red doors' scandal broke, security company says it really will stop making asylum seekers’ homes...
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Published in: Shine A LightDoubts over cause of death of man, 25, at remote UK immigration lockup
Day Two of the inquest into the death of Bruno Dos Santos.
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S suspends 5 staff over alleged attempts to massage 999 response figures
Commercial partners G4S and Lincolnshire Police are jointly investigating fake emergency calls that made outsourcing...