A regrettable feature of the current coronarvirus crisis is the government using it as an excuse to expand prison capacity, rather than as a prompt to address our crisis of overincarceration.
Before the Strangeways protests, children were incarcerated with adults.
The Centre's director, Richard Garside, is co-signatory of a letter calling for Medway's closure.
After Panorama's revelations three years ago of the abuse taking place in G4S-run Medway secure training centre, the latest Ofsted inspection report found that pain-inducing restraint techniques are still being used.
The letter is part of a wider campaign against child imprisonment led...
The controversial security company G4S should be stripped of its contract to run Oakhill secure training centre, the Director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Richard Garside, said today, following a...
Commenting on reports that five people have been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office at the G4S-run Medway Secure Training Centre, our...
You can now read an article by Hannah Pittaway on the Reclaim Justice Network website about the various ways that the privatisation of prisons undermines the safety...
The number of injuries to children in prisons caused during restraint is nearly five times higher than the government has previously disclosed, The Guardian...
G4S wrote to the BBC to try to prevent the broadcast of a Panorama film which uncovered abuse at a children's prison run by the security firm,...
Seven staff members at a G4S run children's prison in Kent have been suspended over claims they violently abused children at the facility, the BBC reports.
The revelations come from an undercover investigation by BBC's...
