Prisoners are being left unfed, drugs are openly being smoked and the regime is chaotic at G4S-run Oakwood prison, according to a letter by 'a concerned relative' in the June edition of the prisoners newspaper ...
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...
Government ministers and civil servants reguarly extol the virtues of a 'level playing field' when it comes to the delivery of public services. Neither the public, private nor voluntary sectors should have an unfair advantage when it comes to competing on cost, quality or delivery,...
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...
The Independent reports that the Chief Executive of GEO, the US group behind the Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre near Heathrow, was paid $6 million...
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 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...
My subject this evening is privatisation and punishment. As I shall come on to explain I’m going to deal with this subject in quite a broad manner.
The next steps in the privatisation of prisons in England and Wales were announced today by the Ministry of Justice.
Competition to run four prisons will go forward to the next stage....
