This year’s undergraduate winner of the John Howard Essay Prize 2012 challenges some often unquestioned assumptions that are driving the for-profit takeover of our child prisons.
West Midlands against Policing for Profit is a group aiming to prevent the privatisation of the West Midlands and Surrey Police Forces by corporations with dubious human rights records. Activist Jo Jones writes on the latest news regarding these takeovers in the wake of the G4S failure to provide
This week, Alex Nunns, campaigner with Keep Our NHS Public, was headhunted for a job at private health firm Care UK. His proposal? A new coporate motto: ‘Providing less, for more’.
As G4S and Serco, both accused of human rights abuses, bid for a contract tendered by two English police authorities, protestors rally to pressure the West Midlands Police Authority to reject the bids on grounds of 'grave misconduct'.
On 10th July a Moscow court extended the pre-trial detention of three members of feminist punk rock band Pussy Riot, charged with hooliganism after they performed a ‘blasphemous’ and anti-Putin song in the city’s main cathedral in February. Vladimir Pastukhov believes there is much the case tells
The punitive language of retribution ignores common sense, justice and compelling evidence of what works, and the new language of the market degrades our penal system, demeaning the tens of thousands of people within its walls.
In light of the LIBOR scandal, UK media has paid little attention to the formation of the European Stability Mechanism, an autonomous body which will take over the handling of banking loans from governments across the Eurozone. In a context of interest rate fixing and widespread dodgy accounting,
The U.S. has the highest reported incarceration rate in the world. Pro Publica has just compiled some of the best investigative journalism on U.S. prisons and the problems that plague them.
It’s no joke — the world’s biggest security company is training immigration staff in “Keeping Children Safe”. • G4S "invited" to deliver training without competition. • UK Border Agency executives "delighted" and "couldn't have been more complimentary". • G4S has record of harming children and adu
