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The Bastani Factor: Britain Is Now Fyre Festival

During the Covid pandemic the failures of Britain’s model have become painfully clear, from 80,000 deaths to a test and trace system which isn’t good enough. The latest shambles on free school meals demonstrates that these aren’t the result of a few bad individuals, or random mistakes, but the result of forty years of privatisation […]

Outsourcing Incarceration: Privitisation in Britain’s Immigration Detention Estate

by Rudy Schulkind

The private companies that run Britain's detention centres have repeatedly failed to protect the rights, dignity and safety of the people they imprison. But the Home Office has created a system in which it is incredibly difficult to hold them to account.

The Lockdown: WTF Is Prison Even For?

On The Lockdown, Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann ask: what is prison actually for? They discuss the history of the prison, its relationship to capitalism and colonialism, and what this means for our criminal justice system today.

The Lockdown: Britain’s Prison Industrial Complex

The Lockdown is a show all about prisons and the criminal justice system in Britain. Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann discuss what the prison industrial complex looks like in Britain and why privatisation in the prison system matters.

G4S is Using Art by Detainees and Prisoners to Boost Its Public Image

by Joe Lo

A private security firm that runs some of the worst immigration removal centres and prisons in the country has partnered with an arts charity to put on an exhibition of work by inmates and detainees.

Charter Flight to Jamaica Threatens Mass Removal of Migrants

by Eleanor Penny

On Wednesday March 8th, a charter flight is due to uproot migrants from their lives in the UK, and fly them to a country that some will never have seen as adults.