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Amazon: it’s more than Bezos

Last week, stock market punters in the US pushed Amazon’s share

Detention centre profits: 20% and up for the migration prison bosses

Just how much money do companies make from locking up people

Deportation Charter Flights: updated report 2018

Each year, the UK Home Office deports over 12,000 people in

Deportation targets and the deterrent dogma: UK immigration enforcement from Straw to May

Home Office anti-migrant policies have been built around deportation targets since

G4S: company profile 2018

G4S is one of the world’s biggest security companies, active in

GEO: company profile 2018

GEO is the second largest US private prisons company. It boasted

Serco: company profile 2018

Serco is an outsourcing company that specialises in public sector work.

Rewards of abuse: detention shambles as G4S’ Brook House contract extended

On Friday 4 May, slipped between the local elections and the

Immigration Detention Centres Factsheet: new edition May 2018

This is a new update of our Detention Centres Factsheet. You

Who is immigration policy for? (Full report)

Download this report as a PDF document. What really drives the

Who is immigration policy for? The media-politics of the hostile environment

Image: Yarl’s Wood detention centre decorated for the royal jubilee in

Campaign kicks off against G4S and Serco asylum housing contracts

As we have reported in recent updates, the Home Office is

Court victory against St Mungos and Thames Reach rough sleeper raids: what next?

Migrants and campaigners scored a major legal victory against the government’s

Mitie wins deportation ‘escorting’ contract

Outsourcing corporation Mitie has announced that it will be taking over

Lendlease: development creeps

Lendlease is a global property developer and construction company based in