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G4S contract to run detention centres renewed despited documented abuse
G4S has had its contract to run the detention centre at Brook House (pictured) renewed – though it was forced to sack six members of staff after they were filmed abusing detainees last year
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
A WEEK AGO, buried behind the wall-to-wall press coverage of the local elections, it was announced that the government had renewed G4S’s contract to run the Brook House and Tinsley House immigration removal centres for another two years.
It came the same week that we had official confirmation that people are being kept in detention for over a year, that there were deportation targets and that some people were wrongly deported.
This is after repeated denials by senior ministers, including the Prime Minister.
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