Extracts from Parliamentary Proceedings (G4S) - Sep 7

Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth) (Lab/Co-op): May we have a statement from the Home Secretary on the shocking and sickening revelation on BBC’s “Panorama” about Brook House immigration detention centre? It showed the shocking behaviour of G4S staff and how our immigration detention system is not working, with committed criminals who should have been deported being held alongside asylum seekers not convicted of any crime.

The Leader of the House of Commons (Andrea Leadsom): We would all agree the footage was shocking. The hon. Gentleman might well wish to raise the matter at the next Home Office questions.

Extract from Lords debate on overcrowding in prisons

Lord Beecham (Lab):...We are entitled to ask of the Government what notice, if any, they take of the inspectorate’s reports regarding the funding of the service and the penalties imposed for failure, especially in prisons being run for profit by the likes of G4S and Sodexo. Damningly, in his introduction to the report, Mr Clarke points out that, notwithstanding his statement of the previous year,

“too many of our prisons had become unacceptably violent and dangerous places. The situation has not improved – in fact, it has become worse”...

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