Our director Richard Garside appeared on Going Underground, Russia Today's UK current affairs programme, talking about absconding prisoners, electronic monitoring and criminal justice privatisation.
Richard argued that the vast majority of prisoners did not need to be held in high...
Private outsourcing company Serco is to be investigated by the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, The Guardian reports. The investigation comes after the...
The Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, has announced that the 'corporate renewal plan' embarked on by private security firm G4S 'represents the right direction of travel' to meet...
The March 2014 issue of Criminal Justice Matters is now available and contains a series of articles exploring the use of electronic monitoring (EM) in the UK and abroad.
Guest editor, Professor Mike Nellis, of the University of Strathclyde considers the role of the private sector...
A day after Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said that G4s may still be prosecuted over claims that it overcharged on electronic monitoring contracts, the company has...
It was reported last week that Capita will be taking over the Ministry of Justice electronic monitoring contracts from Serco and G4S in the new year.
Journalist Kate Belgrave offers a run down of recent press announcements and the...
The National Audit Office (NAO) praises three new prisons built by the National Offender Management Service, in a new report out today.
According to...
The appearance of four senior executives from Atos, Capita, G4S and Serco before the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee got off to a slow start yesterday. It soon warmed up.
G4S Chief Executive Ashley Almanza made the startling observation that the company had failed to 'tell...
Earlier this month, in the briefest of press releases, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced that it had initiated a criminal investigation into security companies G4S and Serco, following allegations that they had overcharged on electronic monitoring contracts.
G4S and Serco are under criminal investigation after claims that they have been overcharging by ‘tens of millions of pounds’.
The Guardian reports that the...
