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Published in: Shine A LightThe UK outsourcing experiment: playing with vulnerable livesA review of Alan White’s Who Really Runs Britain? — the private companies taking control of benefits, prisons,...
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Published in: Shine A LightUK charity seeks funds to challenge use of painful restraints on childrenHow can it be wrong to hurt vulnerable children inside a secure children’s home, but all right to inflict pain in transit?
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Published in: Shine A Light‘How do we get out if there’s a fire?’ In Yorkshire, G4S tenants live in fearSecurity company G4S housed six families with babies and toddlers in a fire-trap hostel in Halifax.
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Published in: Shine A LightHigh Court blasts ‘outrageous’ assault by Tascor staff on torture survivorHighly unusual punitive damages awarded to Felix Wamala, who was subjected to intensely painful, dangerous restraint...
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Published in: Shine A LightFit to run a prison? G4S dodges difficult questionsAt a locked down shareholders’ meeting, security company boss sidestepped hard questions, praised BBC exposé of abuse.
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Published in: Shine A LightChildren’s rights and the UK General Election 2017A leading advocate calls for an Act of Parliament to enshrine children’s rights in law.
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Published in: Shine A LightTheresa May’s tough line on immigration punishes British children“To them it’s just another number, someone else being sent back. But when you’ve got three children being left...
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Published in: Shine A LightMoney talks: Meet three people who want to live in the UKGovernment visa fees tell would-be immigrants that in the UK, money talks ...
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Published in: Shine A Light‘If I’d known what to ask for, I wouldn’t have gone hungry’When Theresa May’s Britain grants asylum, a brutal 28 day countdown starts.
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Published in: Shine A LightViolent and dangerous places: the rise in prison suicides in England and WalesCuts, overcrowding and understaffing have created a toxic mix of violence, death and human misery.
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Published in: Shine A LightRefuse, retract, resist: boycott the schools censusAs the British state tries to make a register of foreign-born children, parents should question a liberal trust in...
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Published in: Shine A Light17 plead not guilty over Stansted deportation protestDefendants contest public order charges arising from protest that stopped a Home Office removal flight.
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Published in: Shine A LightBehave or get deported, says G4SEXCLUSIVE: The world’s biggest security company, landlord to asylum-seekers, threatens tenants with expulsion from the UK.
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Published in: Shine A Light5 reasons why we stopped a UKgov deportation flight to Nigeria last nightAs a government ghost flight prepared for take-off, activists intervened.
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Published in: Shine A LightSheffield campaigner scheduled for life-threatening removal to Cameroon on FridayPaul Blomfield MP works to avert deportation of Pride Mbi Agbor, a popular member of Yorkshire’s City of Sanctuary movement.
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Published in: Shine A Light‘People come in here normal, but they get ill.’ Protesting against deaths at a UK migrant jailIntrusive police surveillance deployed against peaceful protestors at Morton Hall. (See also: Child held for 151...
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Published in: Shine A LightChild was held for a staggering 151 days in men’s immigration lockup Morton Hall in LincolnshireToday’s inspection report reveals that children were detained among 400 adults. One detainee had been convicted of...
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Published in: Shine A LightFighting to win asylum from rape: the case of Erioth MwesigwaToday, Monday 20 February, at 4.30pm, a protest has been called outside the Home Office against the removal and...
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Published in: Shine A LightFail, fail, and have another government contractSecurity contractors G4S and Serco and housing company Clearsprings have for years supplied UK asylum seekers with...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe end of domestic violence support for black and brown women in the UK?Dedicated refuges were created to answer a desperate need. Now their survival is at risk.
