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.
The former prisons Ombudsman Stephen Shaw has urged ministers to reduce immigration detention “boldly and without delay”.
The UK government’s welcome depends on the size of your wallet.
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.
Neglect, contempt and hostility — how the UK government really welcomes refugees.
Commercial contractors routinely belt immigration detainees into restraints so extreme that they are rarely used in prisons.
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.”
