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PRIVATE security giant G4S will stop running its last two immigration detention centres in Britain next year, but it will continue to provide healthcare to detainees at other sites.
The company will withdraw from its Brook House and Tinsley House facilities at Gatwick after abandoning a bid to renew its Home Office management contracts.
It means that another private company such as Serco could take over running the centres from May 2020, unless Labour takes power and implements its pledge to shut down Brook House altogether.
When privatisation is already so deeply embedded in the NHS, we can’t just blindly argue for ‘more funding’ to solve its problems, explain ESTHER GILES, NICO CSERGO, BRIAN GIBBONS and RATHI GUHADASAN
Despite Labour’s promises to bring things ‘in-house,’ the Justice Secretary has awarded notorious outsourcing outfit Mitie a £329 million contract to run a new prison — despite its track record of abuse and neglect in its migrant facilities, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
Government accused of scapegoating ethnic minorities after Home Office reveals plan to publish the nationalities of foreign criminals
