Simon Israel
G4S death: today was not a victory for compassion
A dispiriting end to the day for David Taylor Smith – a man once in command of 50,000 people for the world’s third largest company G4S.
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Brook House inquiry chair: ‘level and extent of distress’ of detainees ‘striking’
Kate Eves, the chair of the Brook House inquiry speaks to us about the inquiry’s findings.
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Detainees at immigration centre subjected to inhumane treatment, says inquiry
The first public inquiry into abuses at an immigration detention centre in the UK found a ‘toxic culture’ – where detainees were subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment, ‘explicit racism’ and frequent misuse of force.
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Simon Israel
G4S death: ex-CEO admits ‘systemic failures’ in vetting process
The world’s largest security firm, G4S, admits systemic failures in regards to its process of performing background checks after it led to the murder of one of its security guards by another.
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Simon Israel
G4S admits it overcharged by millions for tagging offenders
The global security company is to repay just over £24m it overcharged over seven years, and has apologised to the Ministry of Justice.
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Simon Israel
‘Extraordinary and disturbing’: the G4S tagging malfunction
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling is asked to launch an inquiry into why an electronic tagging system operated by G4S malfunctioned, leading to four men being wrongly accused of tampering with their tags.
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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.”