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Published in: Shine A LightBad management and broken promises: asylum housing gets the G4S Olympic experienceWorld's biggest security company reneges on promises and re-opens notorious north of England hostel, Wakefield's Angel Lodge.
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Published in: Shine A LightTagging ex-offenders is not all it’s cracked up to be
Electronic monitoring is no substitute for drug and alcohol rehabilitation, mental health support and literacy coaching.
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Published in: Shine A LightDanish clients dump G4S because of security company’s ties to Israeli occupation
After pressure from Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) activists, several Danish clients have terminated...
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Published in: Shine A LightDetention is the essence of immigration control
At any one time more than 2000 people are deprived of their liberty because a UK immigration official considers they...
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Published in: Shine A LightBeyond the G4S Olympic fiasco: what now for the world's largest security company and its critics?
G4S became a big international news story when they failed to supply enough security guards to protect the London...
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Published in: Shine A LightAnother shambles as G4S is entrusted with running asylum seeker housing
While the world’s biggest security firm has suffered international humiliation over its mishandling of the London...
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Published in: Shine A LightWhat can be done to prevent further injury and death in the UK Border Agency’s care?
As immigration detainees continue to suffer injury, neglect and even death, the charity Medical Justice challenges...
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Published in: Shine A LightNo surprises in failure to prosecute G4S over death of Jimmy Mubenga
Decision not to prosecute G4S over Jimmy Mubenga’s death is depressingly consistent with UK state’s record of racist abuse.
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Published in: Shine A LightNow we have glimpsed how G4S goes about ‘securing our world’
It is time to investigate how the world’s biggest security company operates in the most sensitive areas of our public sphere.
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S Olympic fiasco: British soldiers are the ‘people pipeline’ now
Multimillionaire government ministers, close to G4S chief executive Nick Buckles, are a world away from weary...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe UK Border Agency's long, punitive campaign against children (helped by G4S and Serco)The appalling Rochdale sexual abuse scandal prompted long-overdue scrutiny of our children’s homes. Another national...
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S's Buckles is no bungler. Analysis of an interview
Nick Buckles, CEO of G4S, was not the speech-and-thought-challenged buffoon he appeared to be on his...
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Published in: Shine A LightPolicing privatisation: mortally injured but not yet deceasedWest Midlands against Policing for Profit is a group aiming to prevent the privatisation of the West Midlands and...
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Published in: Shine A LightCitizens fighting £1.5 billion police privatisation highlight security companies’ human rights violationsAs G4S and Serco, both accused of human rights abuses, bid for a contract tendered by two English police...
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S teaches UK Border Agency how to care for children
It’s no joke — the world’s biggest security company is training immigration staff in “Keeping Children Safe”. • G4S...
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Published in: Shine A LightOutsourcing charity – the G4S way
The security firm G4S has spread its tentacles far and wide in the UK. Now it is extending its reach into charity,...
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Published in: Shine A LightYorkshire campaigners claim small victory over world’s biggest security company G4S
Campaigning works, say Yorkshire groups, as G4S forced to drop private landlord UPM from asylum-housing contract.
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Published in: Shine A LightControversial doctor and Barnardo’s serve UK’s flawed child detention policy
Cracks show in ‘compassionate approach’ to locking up children for the sake of administrative convenience.
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Published in: Shine A LightAnger and activism at the G4S annual meetingMore than 70 people demonstrated outside the G4S Annual General Meeting in London yesterday to protest against the...
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Published in: Shine A LightUK court halts kidney-transplant patient’s deportation, and Colin Firth lends support
One arm of the state, the NHS, saves Roseline Akhalu's life. Another, the UK Border Agency, threatens to end it.
