Prisons Archive
New Publication: Prison Island Winter 2021 Update
Corporate Watch has released its third edition of Prison Island: Prison
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27 Oct 2021
Chorley mega-prison plans announced as part of plan for 18,000 new prison places
Content warning – references to imprisonment, suicide, self-harm, cancer, violence The
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17 Jun 2021
Who is building the mega-prisons?
Last summer, the British Government announced plans to build four new
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05 Jan 2021
Event: How to Stop a Mega-Prison
A member of Corporate Watch will be speaking at this event
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19 Oct 2020
Government announces plans to build four more mega-prisons
On Sunday 28th June 2020, the British Government announced plans to
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01 Jul 2020
#CoronaCapitalism: Riots, resistance and releases – the Coronavirus and the prison industrial complex
The Corona virus is creating huge ruptures in the prison industrial
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03 Apr 2020
Oasis: The Evangelical Christians opening a children’s prison
Content warning: child abuse, sexual abuse, rape, violence, transphobia The government
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18 Feb 2020
British government funding for Nigerian deportation prison scrapped
Last year, Corporate Watch reported on the British Government’s plans to
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04 Nov 2019
A life costs £10,000: how G4S’ Brook House detention contract works
In 2017, security company G4S was in the headlines again after
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24 Jul 2019
Kier: Building controversy
Kier is a multinational construction company and the principal contractor building
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21 Dec 2018
New ‘Secure School’ as part of a wave of new children’s prisons
The Government has announced its plans to create a new ‘Secure
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16 Nov 2018
Treasury commits to funding new mega-prisons
The government’s plans to build two new mega-prisons has been re-affirmed
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06 Nov 2018
Poppies, Prison labour and the War Machine
Poppies and Prison Labour At this time of year, people wearing
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01 Nov 2018
No Prisons Podcast
Nicole from Corporate Watch was recently interviewed on the No Prisons
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24 Oct 2018