Dissatisfied prisoners have set a GEO Group-run prison in South Africa on fire four times in the past 15 years. This investigative 3-part series for News24 examines the underlying causes, and whether the issues are rooted in South Africa’s troubled prison system or the for-profit, multinational management of the facility.
Kutama-Sinthumule prison in Makhado, South Africa, was destroyed in a fire on 7 August. Two inmates died, 18 were hospitalised, and two prison officials were injured. All inmates have been relocated to other facilities. The prison is managed by the American security company GEO Group, with its partners Kensani Corrections and South African Custodial Services, […]
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Chevron Nigeria Limited’s Security Contractor G4S owes hundreds of ex-staff millions of naira in unpaid gratuity. The company denies current staff union membership rights
The opaqueness of public procurement may be losing Kenya much needed tax revenues that would greatly ease the tax burden on ordinary Kenyans.
The company controversially continues to bag huge contracts despite dramas and scandals in the correctional facilities it runs in South Africa and the United Kingdom.
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“My daughter’s health has deteriorated, and she cannot walk, and the problem of shortness of breath has become insufferable for her…
In 2004, two Danish businessmen, Lars Nørby Johansen and Jørgen Philip-Sørensen, were the main forces behind the establishment
To danske erhvervsfolk, Lars Nørby Johansen og Jørgen Philip-Sørensen, var hovedkræfterne bag …
“تدهورت صحة ابنتي وهي لا تستطيع المشي، وأصبحت مشكلة ضيق التنفس شبه مستعصية عندها، وما يثقل كاهلي أكثر هو انعدام الخدمات الصحية والأدوية في البلدة”… من يحرم سكان البصرة حقوقهم؟
“Vea, él denunció una munición perdida y en lugar de empezar una investigación por eso lo que hizo la empresa fue despedirlo.
On behalf of the Private Security Network, SOMO investigated a number of financial aspects concerning British multinational security services
One night in March 2017, Kondwani Banda (not real name), a security officer for G4S Malawi, got badly injured when he tried to stop a group
“I have been working for 12 hours, from 7 pm to 7 am daily, as a private security guard. I work 30 days in a row without any days off. After 30 days
Privatiseringen hebben het lot van migranten in handen van commerciële bedrijven gelegd. Een spoor van schandalen is het gevolg. Nu trekt beveiligingsfirma G4S zich terug.
Almost a decade has gone by since the European Parliament cut ties with the world’s largest security provider, the British multinational security services company G4S.
Sinds kort telt België twee ‘transitiehuizen’. Goedkoper op de korte termijn, maar op lange termijn lijken de kosten hoger.
Flere danske pensionskasser genovervejer deres investering i sikringsgiganten G4S, som den norske oliefond har
PKA har besluttet at sælge fra og ekskludere G4S, mens Pædagogernes Pensionskasse holder fast trods sag om brud på menneskerettigheder
Det dansk-britiske sikkerhedsfirma G4S har måttet stille med både investor-relation-chefen og lobbyistchefen ved en-til-en-møder med institutionelle investorer for at forklare sig om kritisable forhold for selskabets ansatte i Qatar og Forenede Arabiske Emirater.
Risikoen, for at den dansk-britiske sikkerhedskoncern G4S medvirker til systematiske overtrædelse af menneskerettighederne i Qatar og De Forenede Arabiske Emirater, får nu den danske pensionskasse MP Pension til at reagere.
Torture victim was detained at a G4S-run immigration centre for almost a year despite serious concerns he would take his own life, inspectors have warned.
Torture victim was detained at a G4S-run immigration centre for almost a year despite serious concerns he would take his own life, inspectors have warned.
Après des centres pour réfugiés et sans-abri, le géant de la sécurité G4S exploite désormais des maisons de transition en Belgique. Première étape d’une privatisation inavouée ? Le ministère de la Justice refuse d’expliquer le choix de cet opérateur.
Migrants working for £1 per hour in detention centres feel they are being treated like “slaves”. VICE data reveals just how much they have been underpaid.
British multinational security company G4S wants the high court in Pretoria to suppress evidence that could reveal widespread torture and abuse of prisoners at its Mangaung prison in Bloemfontein.
British security firm G4S, which runs Bloemfontein’s Mangaung prison, has denied lawyers access to a prisoner who claims to have been shot in the head with a rubber bullet by a warder.
Inmates say they were given electric shocks and forcibly injected at the multinational security company’s Mangaung Correctional Centre, writes Ruth Hopkins.
Immigration detainees have been short-changed of £5 million a year by being paid £1 an hour instead of the minimum wage for work they did while in removal centres, it has been claimed.
Over the past quarter-century, in the shadows of British society, the incarceration of refugees and other migrants has boomed. In the early 1990s, the Home Office had just a few hundred cells for holding people who were about to be deported.
Four years ago G4S was involved in the unlawful killing of an immigration detainee called Jimmy Mubenga. Now they’re winning NHS contracts to care for detainees.
Companies are potentially saving millions by paying asylum-seekers just £1 an hour to do essential jobs inside their detention centres, an investigation by Corporate Watch has found.