Collusion between the police, the department of correctional services and the private company, G4S, has made it impossible to enforce accountability.
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The government has extended a contract with private security companies G4S and Serco.
Scotland is about to greatly expand its use of tags to have more prisoners serve sentences in their homes and communities.
The recent red door asylum seeker housing scandal has highlighted the cracks in the system.
The awarding of a A$1.22 billion contract to Transfield Services to run the Manus Island and Nauru detention centres is yet another example of a government handing over responsibility to other parties…
In the first few weeks of 2014, private security company G4S has repeatedly had to deny reports of full-scale riots at the UK’s newest prison, HMP Oakwood, near Wolverhampton. The prison has experienced…
On Friday, the National Audit Office released a report detailing its investigation into the COMPASS housing project, a series of contracts between the Home Office and three service providers – G4S, Serco…
Since the Thatcher years, successive governments from both political parties have been committed to reforming and reducing the public sector. Alongside, there have been numerous reforms to introduce “private…
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