No meaningful action taken after 2003 allegations by whistleblowers at Medway secure training centre currently under investigation over similar behaviour
Serious allegations of abuse and bullying at a G4S-run youth prison were made more than a decade before the current controversy surrounding the secure training centre which is now to be sold off,the Guardian can reveal.
Eleven staff were suspended or sacked from Medway STC in Kent final month after a BBC documentary alleged staff were inappropriately restraining inmates and falsifying statistics to improve the jail’s record. G4S announced on Friday that it was to sell its “children’s services businesses”, including the contracts for Medway and another STC, or in Oakhill,Milton Keynes.
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Source: theguardian.com