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Published in: Shine A LightAsylum seekers with red doors are still being targeted by racists
Regardless of government orders and promises to Parliament, UK property company Jomast carries on putting asylum...
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Published in: Shine A LightChildren in trouble: punishment or welfare?
BBC Panorama exposed abuse at Medway Secure Training Centre — and a government policy that has gone off the rails.
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Published in: Shine A LightRed doors for asylum seekers: MPs grill one of Britain’s richest landlords
“An unseemly and unsavoury” business? Stuart Monk of Jomast fails to impress.
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Published in: Shine A LightMarked out for attack: living in the UK 'asylum market'
Private companies took public money to house asylum seekers behind distinctive red doors and make them wear bright...
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Published in: Shine A LightRed doors made asylum seekers targets for abuse. Deliberate?
Why did UK commercial contractors G4S and Jomast paint asylum seekers’ doors red? Why did they ignore complaints for years?
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Published in: Shine A LightBlack deaths: still fighting for justice in the UK
Ken Fero's award-winning films about black deaths at the hands of the police in Britain record the continuing...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe report which could destroy Britain’s immigration prisons
The former prisons Ombudsman Stephen Shaw has urged ministers to reduce immigration detention “boldly and without delay”.
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Published in: Shine A LightBullying kids: G4S abuse of child prisoners exposed
For years the Howard League and others have warned of abuse of child inmates in secure training centres. Now the...
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Published in: Shine A LightDisaster capitalism, and the outsourcing of violence in the UK
Corporations bleed what profits they can from disaster. Democracy is replaced by a business plan. An excerpt from...
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Published in: Shine A LightA safe place for children? G4S pays for “independent” report on Rainsbrook prison
The world's largest security company shows how to undermine a rigorous and shocking account of racism and degrading...
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Published in: Shine A LightBarbara, tagged and monitored like a criminal
Barbara is an asylum seeker living in the UK. How the government’s immigration crackdown creates opportunities for...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe sex abusers guarding Britain’s most vulnerable children
“They look at you like you’re a dog, making you strip is bang out of order.” The final shocking extract from...
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Published in: Shine A LightMothers and sons. On children who have died in UK prisons
Joseph Scholes and Adam Rickwood died within weeks of being placed in penal institutions. Carolyne Willow met the...
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Published in: Shine A LightPrison, a treacherous place for a child
Thirty-three children have died in English child prisons since 1990. A powerful new book exposes how Britain’s most...
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Published in: Shine A LightExploding the myth of ‘payment by results’
National Audit Office issues damning report on outsourcing model that claims to guarantee value for money.
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Published in: Shine A LightToddlers, rats, asbestos. G4S, asylum seekers’ landlord
Why would the UK government let its commercial contractor get away with housing vulnerable asylum seekers in dangerous slums?
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Published in: Shine A LightChildren suffer racist abuse and ‘degrading treatment’ by guards high on drugs at G4S Rainsbrook prison
G4S appoints “new leadership” at Rainsbrook: the man in charge when Gareth Myatt, 15, was restrained to death, the...
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S abuses in South African prison still ignored
Investigations and reports into allegations of widespread human-rights violations at G4S-run Mangaung prison have...
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Published in: Shine A LightUK Election: Crime & Justice, what do the parties offer?
A leading advocate for penal reform assesses the parties’ manifestos.
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Published in: Shine A LightHow to survive in prison
Amid a crisis of suicides and assaults across prisons in England and Wales, one former inmate offers advice on...