“They look at you like you’re a dog, making you strip is bang out of order.” The final shocking extract from Children Behind Bars.
Nobody likes to be stopped, harassed and humiliated by the police. Young people are devising strategies to protect themselves.
Joseph Scholes and Adam Rickwood died within weeks of being placed in penal institutions. Carolyne Willow met the boys’ mothers, and tells their stories in her shocking book, Children Behind Bars.
Thirty-three children have died in English child prisons since 1990. A powerful new book exposes how Britain’s most vulnerable children are routinely damaged by the state.
National Audit Office issues damning report on outsourcing model that claims to guarantee value for money.
Why would the UK government let its commercial contractor get away with housing vulnerable asylum seekers in dangerous slums?
The state took three lives. A hospital discharged a suicidal young woman. The police unlawfully tapped a man’s phone. Three stories from RightsInfo:
22 year old man detained regardless of UK rules forbidding detention of torture survivors.
Former HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Lord Ramsbotham, offers advice to ministers.
Victims of the black cab rapist were not believed. A man who suffered a miscarriage of justice could not speak to journalists. Four children suffered abuse and neglect. Three stories from RightsInfo:
“Headbutt the bitch, I’d beat her up,” said one Serco guard, caught on camera at the notorious UK immigration removal centre. Cartoonist Rowan Kinchin on activist efforts to set the women free:
G4S appoints “new leadership” at Rainsbrook: the man in charge when Gareth Myatt, 15, was restrained to death, the man who told an inquest he hadn’t read the restraint manual.
