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G4S bids for asylum housing contract

G4S, the global security services company, is bidding to provide accommodation and services for asylum seekers across the UK. They have invited interested parties to talk to them about the proposals at a series of events. The contract is worth £135.5 million a year in total, broken down into six regions with several companies and [...]

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Deportation deaths

Jimmy Mubenga died this week aboard the British Airways BA77 flight to Uganda while being restrained by G4S security guards using ‘excessive force’ according to one witness. Jimmy, a devoted husband and father of five children, is the not the first, and will not be the last migrant to die at the hands the European [...]

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G4S withdraws from job fair!

Brighton, UK - G4S, the security company privately contracted by the UK Border Agency to run many of the UK’s detention centres and security escort services, voluntarily withdrew from the Brighton & Hove Council, City Future Job Fair, taking place 4 June 2010, after Brighton-based groups issued an official complaint to job fair sponsors about [...]

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