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Published in: Shine A LightLessons from Australia: talking about privatised immigration detentionDo detention companies deliberately escalate tensions so they can extract more money from governments? Bart Denaro,...
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Published in: Shine A LightMigrant boys, all alone in the UK“I see people walking around with their mum and dad and I can’t even talk to my family.” A child flees Afghanistan...
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Published in: Shine A LightBarnardo's and G4S, partners in the child detention businessFour years ago the coalition government promised to end child detention for immigration purposes. But they didn't....
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Published in: Shine A Light'Neither criminals, nor animals!' A week of unrest in Britain's migrant jailsLack of legal representation. Poor medical care. Threat of solitary confinement. Immigration detainees in England...
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Published in: Shine A LightWe must do more to protect children and young people in prisonFilthy cells with broken windows, open to the elements. Life in England's worst prison — and it's for young people.
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Published in: Shine A LightFive lessons Britain must learn from the botched privatisation of asylum housingA Parliamentary watchdog reports on the dangerous consequences of an ill-conceived, badly planned and poorly...
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Published in: Shine A LightOne life in investigative journalismA Q&A with Clare Sambrook, OurKingdom co-editor and co-founder of the End Child Detention Now campaign. Interviewer:...
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Published in: Shine A LightMan loses job. What next? (He's G4S's Nick Buckles, by the way)What happens after a government outsourcer fails shareholders and the public, and the boss loses his job? Nick...
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Published in: Shine A LightHow to use housing to hurt people: Britain's hostile environment for asylum seekersThe hidden injuries of asylum housing — inflicted by G4S.
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Published in: Shine A LightWhy the Jimmy Mubenga trial matters. By ex-Chief Inspector of Prisons Lord RamsbothamOn Thursday the Crown Prosecution Service announced that three former G4S guards, Stuart Tribelnig, Terry Hughes and...
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Published in: Shine A LightThis market isn't working. UK government contractors exploit secrecy and weak competitionThe government keeps taxpayers in the dark about billions paid to private contractors. A Parliamentary watchdog...
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Published in: Shine A LightFail and prosper: how privatisation really worksWant to make £10 million and more? Become an accountant. Learn how to make austerity pay.
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Published in: Shine A LightSecret government contracts undermine our democracies. Let's stop themHow do we know that the money we collectively give to our governments is being properly spent? We don't. A new...
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Published in: Shine A LightUK watchdog takes another bite out of failing outsourcer G4S
Commercial outsourcers fail and fail again. Privatisation hurtles on. The Public Accounts Committee has been...
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Published in: Shine A LightIs the Death of a Detainee a BBC story? It depends where they're fromThe horrible death of Canadian Alois Dvorzac in UK immigration detention was big news. What if he'd been from...
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Published in: Shine A LightGambling with public safety: privatising probation
In England and Wales the probation service works. The Coalition government is privatising it anyway, at speed. A...
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Published in: Shine A LightMan, 84, dies handcuffed in hospital: UK border control by the GEO GroupA shocking report on Harmondsworth, the British immigration lock-up run by GEO, America's second biggest prisons...
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Published in: Shine A LightBritain's botched privatisation of asylum housingUK spending watchdog confirms mismanagement in outsourcing to G4S and Serco. Report casts doubt on public servants'...
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S & Serco fraud: Oops, we couldn't tell the difference between right and wrong
British outsourcers cheated taxpayers out of tens of millions of pounds. Yesterday they said sorry. So that's all...
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S and Serco overcharging scandal just got worse
Two outsourcing giants who tagged and monitored ex-offenders charged British taxpayers tens of millions of pounds...
