RESOURCES/ FURTHER INFORMATION

Groups and campaigns

Campaign to close Campsfield www.closecampsfield.org.uk/

Bicester refugee support www.bicesterrefugeesupport.org.uk/index.html, website of the group campaigning against the new detention centre in Bicester.

Barbed Wire Britain www.barbedwirebritain.org.uk/ has links to other anti-detention centre campaigns around the country.

National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns www.ncadc.org.uk/index.htm

Bail for Immigration Detainees www.biduk.org/, a charity working with asylum seekers trying to get out of detention.

Campaign Against Prison Slavery www.enrager.net/hosted/caps/modules.php?name=News

Prison Reform Trust www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/

Unison, Britain's largest public services trade union, is running a campaign against PFI: www.unison.org.uk/positivelypublic/index.asp

www.focusongroup4securicor.com/ US trade union organisation

http://makebordershistory.org/ Focusing on a walking tour of Glasgow to coincide with the G8 Summit.

www.openborders.org.uk/ Another site relating to the G8 and in particular Dungavel detention centre (run by Serco subsidiary Premier).


Australian groups

http://refugee.autonomous.org/

www.safecom.org.au/refugees.htm has lots of links and a section specific to baxter.

http://baxter05.info/ A campaign against the Baxter detention centre.


Publications and articles

www.psiru.org/ppri.asp Prison Privatisation Report International, published six times a year by the Public Services International Research Unit at the University of Greenwich.

www.monbiot.com Gearge Monbiot's website including some articles about the effects of privatisation and especially PFI.

www.ainfos.ca/04/nov/ainfos00386.html More on prison slavery

www.irr.org.uk/index.html Independent Race and Refugee News Network


M Foucault, Discipline and Punish

T Hayter, Open Borders

C. Parenti, Lockdown America


www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1335960,00.html 'Prisons and Profit don't mix' 26 October 2004

www.labournet.net/ukunion/0502/wackenhut1.html About the incestuous relationships between Group4 Securicor and Wackenhut.


Others

www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/documents/public_private_partnerships/ppp_index.cfm
Treasury PFI links page.

http://t2web.amnesty.r3h.net/library/Index/ENGEUR450152005 Amnesty International's report on asylum detention in the UK, published June 2005.