• Home Office contractors agree “significant” financial settlement• 77 year old locum doctor did not know detention centre rules• Brian Dalrymple, a 35 year old American tourist, died of natural causes; neglect was a contributing factor• Mother pays tribute to “warm and loving man”
Doctor who saw the American tourist before his death knew neither mental health law nor detention centre rules
For years rival healthcare companies at two for-profit immigration lock-ups failed properly to communicate. A report from Day 4 of the inquest into the death of Brian Dalrymple
At least 20 people have died in immigration detention in the UK: how many more must die before the UK changes its detention policy? The public must shout louder, says Eiri Ohtani.
In London, at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, rape survivors protest against the UK government's treatment of women fleeing sexual violence
Do detention companies deliberately escalate tensions so they can extract more money from governments? Bart Denaro, Antony Loewenstein, Ramesh Fernandez and Brynn O'Brien shine a light on a thriving trade in human misery.
“I see people walking around with their mum and dad and I can’t even talk to my family.” A child flees Afghanistan for the UK. What happens next?
Four years ago the coalition government promised to end child detention for immigration purposes. But they didn't. Instead, the UK's biggest children's charity and security giant G4S created a prettier prison.
Lack of legal representation. Poor medical care. Threat of solitary confinement. Immigration detainees in England and Scotland protest against what they claim is routine inhumanity by the state and its commercial contractors.
A Q&A with Clare Sambrook, OurKingdom co-editor and co-founder of the End Child Detention Now campaign. Interviewer: Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi, writer-in-residence at Lacuna.
An impassioned campaign to prevent Yashika Bageerathi's deportation has put Home Office treatment of children in the spotlight.
On Thursday the Crown Prosecution Service announced that three former G4S guards, Stuart Tribelnig, Terry Hughes and Colin Kaler, would stand trial for the manslaughter of Jimmy Mubenga on a BA plane in October 2010. Long before Mubenga's death, Lord Ramsbotham was among those who warned repeatedl
