• • Omar Mateen, who killed 50 people in gay nightclub, was employed as armed guard by G4S.
• • G4S guards have killed before.
• • Company sells its expertise in vetting staff.

Children tell inspectors of being verbally, physically and sexually abused. See also How many children are sexually abused in prison? 

On Home Office flights private sector guards apply restraints so extreme they are very rarely used in prisons. What happened on the 24/25 May flight to Nigeria and Ghana?

Inquest, Day Four: Neurologist testifies that he might have saved 25 year old Bruno Dos Santos. 

Four months after 'red doors' scandal broke, security company says it really will stop making asylum seekers’ homes so easy to locate and attack.

Jury hears of ‘chaotic’ and ‘stressful time’ at the Verne immigration removal centre. Day One of the inquest into the death of Bruno Dos Santos.

Regardless of government orders and promises to Parliament, UK property company Jomast carries on putting asylum tenants at risk.

Almost 3 years after Connor Sparrowhawk — who had autism — died at an NHS facility, his brother asks why the system still resists giving respect to people with learning disabilities.

What to make of a government that increasingly excuses its actions from legal accountability while demanding more and more accountability from citizens? 

UK mental health service providers are still failing to deal with race and ethnicity.

The government spends nine times more investigating benefits claimants than it spends probing employers who pay below the minimum wage.

As David Cameron’s panicked government puts on a compassionate face, we meet people harmed by punitive policies.

Jeremy Hunt's apologies for the failures at Southern Health ring hollow, given that he believes markets and not ministers should be accountable for our healthcare. 

“An unseemly and unsavoury” business? Stuart Monk of Jomast fails to impress.

Why did UK commercial contractors G4S and Jomast paint asylum seekers’ doors red? Why did they ignore complaints for years?

Since when did the lead character in Star Wars come from Peckham? Since a woman with imagination became the casting director.

For years the Howard League and others have warned of abuse of child inmates in secure training centres. Now the BBC’s Panorama programme has caught it on camera.