Neglect, contempt and hostility — how the UK government really welcomes refugees.
Gypsy and Irish Traveller prisoners represent 5% of the entire prison population of England and Wales. Let’s get their education right.
Commercial contractors routinely belt immigration detainees into restraints so extreme that they are rarely used in prisons.
Three bloggers have been arrested in Samara, Russia on suspected extortion charges. The ripples from the arrest are spreading fast. на русском языке
Despite claims of impartiality, judges in Central Asia often incorporate neoliberal economic and moral values into their judgements on illegal settlements.
Corporations bleed what profits they can from disaster. Democracy is replaced by a business plan. An excerpt from Antony Loewenstein’s Disaster Capitalism: Making A Killing Out Of Catastrophe.
The death of Alois Dvorzak exposes increased shackling of immigration detainees, as commercial contractors fear financial penalties that follow escapes.
Dvorzak inquest. Day 8: Juror: Should arrangements for vulnerable detainees have been in place a long time ago?Home Office official: “Yes. I don't know why they weren’t.”
84 year old immigration detainee was handcuffed and chained as he lay dying in hospital. Dvorzak Inquest, Day 6.
Today former detainees and their supporters gather to protest at the former prison in South Lanarkshire.
Coroner: “But Mr Dvorzak had chest pains. Why was he still handcuffed?”Security company employee: “I can’t justify a comment on that.”West London Coroner’s Court, 23 October 2015.
