The Latest Breaking News from Serco

Commissioner Michael Outram appeals for greater powers to manage ‘high level of risk’ and worrying rates of addiction in facilities

Exclusive: Ombudsman’s report says devices ‘discharged directly on’ detainees and into areas where people retreated, including those not involved in riots

The Sunday Times rich list is a stark symbol of the growing inequality in the UK. As many people face worsening living conditions, a small few are becoming ever richer. Among them for the first time this year is Graham King, an Essex businessman who has accumulated a £750 million…

Lawyers helping detainees say they have been told that dozens have gone on hunger strike in detention centre near Heathrow

Firms such as Serco and Virgin Active pull facial recognition and fingerprint scan systems used to monitor staff attendance

Senator Nick McKim says company’s ‘opaque’ SRAT security assessment tool ‘has severe implications for fundamental human rights’

Primary results from Georgia, Mississippi and Washington state set up a 2020 rerun. Plus, EU official says starvation being used as a weapon in Gaza

The secret algorithm controlling Serco detainees’ lives; Labor told to back down over offshore drilling proposals; calls for investigation over detention of Gaza medics

Security Risk Assessment Tool – or SRAT – and similar algorithmic tools condemned as ‘abusive’ and ‘unscientific’

The opaque risk rating system, used in Australian detention centres, is riddled with errors and effectively makes the company ‘judge, jury and executioner’, says one former detainee

Rupert Soames says Guardian revelations over sexual misconduct claims were ‘appalling shock’ but is bullish about the future