G4S may still be prosecuted
Troubled security company G4S may still face criminal prosecution over its alleged overcharging on electronic monitoring and prisoner escort contracts, The...
Troubled security company G4S may still face criminal prosecution over its alleged overcharging on electronic monitoring and prisoner escort contracts, The...
A new 2,000 place prison will be built at Wrexham, giving rise to concerns that it will lead the way to more low-cost supersize prisons being built in future. Chris Grayling, the Justice Minister, has cited Oakwood as example where the...
Plans to hand over the running of lie-detector tests for some individuals convicted of sexual offences to the private sector have been abandoned,...
The Ministry of Justice has announced that 30 bidders have passed the first stage of a competition to win regional probation service contracts.
Bids come from a range of private firms, charities, British and multinational business. The contracts will for the first time require every...
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 Financial Times reports that the Ministry of Justice will put prison maintenance contracts out to tender 'within days'.
The contracts, worth an estimated £100m per year, will...
The National Audit Office (NAO) praises three new prisons built by the National Offender Management Service, in a new report out today.
According to...
Six prisoners at G4S-run Oakwood prison staged a seven hour rooftop protest yesterday, BBC news reports. Last month three prisoners mounted a rooftop protest at the same prison.
Last month the Chief...
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...
In advance of the appearance of G4S, Serco, Capita and Atos senior executives before the Commons Public Accounts Committee tomorrow, CBI Director General John...
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...