Investigations and reports into allegations of widespread human-rights violations at G4S-run Mangaung prison have stalled. Can anyone wrangle the private security behemoth?
American academic and corporate knowhow and Mexican low-wage manufacturing are to fuse with Israel’s border and homeland security companies.
The urge to reform the prison system should be applauded, but alternative forms of confinement are becoming commonplace in other parts of American life.
Multinational companies–including two listed on the NASDAQ–have been quietly providing Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan with increasingly sophisticated surveillance technology to aid state repression.
Railway privatisation has failed. It's time to put the public in charge.
OurNHS openDemocracy Editor Caroline Molloy debates with Andrew Haldenby, head of the Reform think tank, in a discussion hosted by Ian Collins for the Express newspaper.
Honduras' perfect storm of machismo, repression, corruption and impunity make it the murder capital of the world.
The overwhelming weight of evidence suggests market-based reforms are bad for healthcare, finds the latest report by the New Economics Foundation.
New charges indict one of the most ensconced figures on the Chilean right, and a symbol of the enduring impunity for members of Pinochet's regime.
Is repeated failure actually the key to the success and endless expansion of the US intelligence community?
The NHS has become the burning issue of the Scottish Independence Referendum. OurNHS takes a close look, and finds in favour of the Yes campaign.
Known to the international community since 1976, why has the world dragged its feet for decades to find a vaccine for Ebola—and where has the money gone for public health research?
