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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: openDemocracyUKThe UN’s Committee Against Torture is about to examine the UK’s treatment of prisoners – and it’s not looking good
If we care about human rights at all, we should care about the drastic deterioration in prison conditions under ‘austerity’.
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Published in: Shine A LightAbolish child prisons, demands mother who lost her son
UK charities, parliamentarians and bereaved families unite to close child prisons. Inspection reports call all such...
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Published in: Shine A LightWhy are so many people dying on probation in England and Wales?
Flawed ‘reforms’ and part-privatisation have created havoc in the probation service. Amid the chaos: a sharp rise in...
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Published in: Shine A LightConnor Sparrowhawk: How one boy’s death in NHS care inspired a movement for justice
The story of a UK campaign for truth and accountability. And respect for the lives of people who have learning...
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Published in: Shine A LightHow lawyers fail migrants in the UK
Access to justice has diminished almost to vanishing point, leaving asylum seekers and irregular migrants at risk of...
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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 LightUK charity seeks funds to challenge use of painful restraints on children
How can it be wrong to hurt vulnerable children inside a secure children’s home, but all right to inflict pain in transit?
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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 LightChildren’s rights and the UK General Election 2017
A leading advocate calls for an Act of Parliament to enshrine children’s rights in law.
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Published in: Shine A LightTheresa May’s tough line on immigration punishes British children
“To them it’s just another number, someone else being sent back. But when you’ve got three children being left...
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Published in: Shine A LightMoney talks: Meet three people who want to live in the UK
Government visa fees tell would-be immigrants that in the UK, money talks ...
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Published in: Shine A LightViolent and dangerous places: the rise in prison suicides in England and Wales
Cuts, overcrowding and understaffing have created a toxic mix of violence, death and human misery.
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Published in: Shine A LightFighting to win asylum from rape: the case of Erioth Mwesigwa
Today, Monday 20 February, at 4.30pm, a protest has been called outside the Home Office against the removal and...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe end of domestic violence support for black and brown women in the UK?
Dedicated refuges were created to answer a desperate need. Now their survival is at risk.
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Published in: Shine A Light£190K payoff for ex-chief of NHS Trust that failed to investigate hundreds of unexpected deaths
Why Katrina Percy had to go.
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Published in: Shine A LightEngland’s bonfire of children’s rights
A new bill threatens decades of carefully drafted laws designed to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in care.
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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...