“An unseemly and unsavoury” business? Stuart Monk of Jomast fails to impress.
Private companies took public money to house asylum seekers behind distinctive red doors and make them wear bright shiny wristbands.
Why did UK commercial contractors G4S and Jomast paint asylum seekers’ doors red? Why did they ignore complaints for years?
Ken Fero's award-winning films about black deaths at the hands of the police in Britain record the continuing struggle to get justice. They have never been broadcast in the UK. Part of our partnership with the Unorthodocs programme of screenings and events.
Since when did the lead character in Star Wars come from Peckham? Since a woman with imagination became the casting director.
The former prisons Ombudsman Stephen Shaw has urged ministers to reduce immigration detention “boldly and without delay”.
For years the Howard League and others have warned of abuse of child inmates in secure training centres. Now the BBC’s Panorama programme has caught it on camera.
The UK government’s welcome depends on the size of your wallet.
Enforced isolation makes people ill and increases the risk of self harm. For one former governor a new report from the Prison Reform Trust is uncomfortable reading.
Already vulnerable children are going missing at an alarming rate. What is being done to protect them?
Local authorities are placing children in damp, rodent-infested, dangerous accommodation.
Without more radical reform, new for old prisons will repeat the mistakes of the past.
