Serco: The Company That Is Running Britain

The Company That Is Running Britain
CHRISTMAS ISLAND - JULY 27: A welcome sign by management company SERCO adorns the side of a building at Phosphate Hill Detention Centre on July 27, 2013 in Christmas Island, Indian Ocean Territories, Australia. Demountable accommodation and office blocks are behind the shade-clothed fence. The Australian government has announced that all asylum seeker arrivals will be processed and resettled in Papua New Guinea. (Photo by Scott Fisher/Getty Images)
CHRISTMAS ISLAND - JULY 27: A welcome sign by management company SERCO adorns the side of a building at Phosphate Hill Detention Centre on July 27, 2013 in Christmas Island, Indian Ocean Territories, Australia. Demountable accommodation and office blocks are behind the shade-clothed fence. The Australian government has announced that all asylum seeker arrivals will be processed and resettled in Papua New Guinea. (Photo by Scott Fisher/Getty Images)

In May this year, a huge company listed on the London Stock Exchange found itself in the midst of controversy about a prison it runs for the government – Thameside, a newly built jail next to Belmarsh, in south-east London. A report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate found that 60% of its inmates were locked up all day, and there were only "vague plans to restore the prison to normality". The prison campaign group the Howard League for Penal Reform talked about conditions that were "truly alarming".

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