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30 per cent of prisoners at G4S’s Wolds do nothing all day
Illegal drug use is high, cells are overcrowded and up to 30 per cent of inmates wander around aimlessly at an East Yorkshire prison run by G4S, the firm responsible for Olympics security.
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G4S donates £2.5m to army in ‘goodwill gesture’
The donation follows G4S’s failure to train and deploy enough Olympic security staff, forcing more than 4,700 members of the armed forces to be put on standby for the Games.
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FactCheck: Is G4S trying to get paid twice?
“You essentially recruit the best people for your own organisation but instead of paying for the cost of vetting, interviewing, training and trialling them yourself, the taxpayer picks up the bill because those things are covered by the 2012 contract. You then collect from the taxpayer a second time because the people you recruited were on the Work Programme and you got them off the dole queue.”
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MPs: G4S should be fined for Olympics security debacle
A group of MPs says the G4S security firm should face financial penalties for the “chaos” it’s caused in failing to provide enough staff for the Olympic Games.
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MPs: G4S Olympics security is a ‘humiliating shambles’
As G4S chief executive Nick Buckles answers questions from MPs about the firm’s handling of Olympics security, the culture secretary tells Channel 4 News there will be a “very thorough post-mortem”.
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G4S chief executive: we regret signing the Olympics contract
Nick Buckles, the G4S chief executive who says he is worth his £1.2m annual pay package, admits to MPs he regrets signing the contract to provide security for the Olympics.
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Documents show ‘just in time’ G4S culture
In an internal G4S memo, the embattled Olympics contractor justifies its last-minute security strategy by claiming it was neither practical nor cost-effective to train everyone months in advance.
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From cheers to jeers: chronology of the G4S cock-up
Who knew what and when? Channel 4 News examines the timeline of the G4S Olympics security row.
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G4S boss: ‘I’m worth £1.2m (99 per cent of the time)’
The security giant’s chief executive tells Channel 4 News he does not expect to get a bonus after failings that will cost the company up to £50m.
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G4S aware of recruitment issues six months ago
A G4S whistleblower tells Channel 4 News that management at a vetting centre were aware six months ago it would not meet recruitment targets it was set to provide security at the Olympics.
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Pressure builds on Olympics organisers over G4S failures
As a picture emerges of serious problems with the provision of security at Olympic venues, pressure mounts on Locog to take action against security contractor G4S.
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G4S: the anatomy of a ‘shambles’
Cut off from contact, trained but not deployed, and still unsure of working hours: G4S employees tell Channel 4 News of a shambolic recruitment process that has left staff seething.
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Military drafted in after G4S Olympic staffing failure
As 3,500 more troops are drafted in to police the Olympics, a G4S duty manager tells Channel 4 News that some staff contracted to provide security have not been trained or deployed.
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Parc Prison: Three inmates hospitalised ‘in riot’ over weekend – as one mother fears for son’s life
One of the biggest jails in England and Wales is on alert after violent incidents and the tenth death in three months.
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Are Britain’s prisons a ‘disaster waiting to happen’?
Last month saw a spate of prison riots, with violence at jails in Hertfordshire and Worcestershire. Some commentators claimed the unrest was “a disaster waiting to happen”. But what’s really going on inside Briton’s prisons? And are prison officers facing an uphill battle to stay in control?