Clare Sambrook

Clare Sambrook, novelist and award-winning investigative journalist, edits the Shine a Light project at OurKingdom, the UK arm of openDemocracy. Clare is a co-founder of End Child Detention Now.

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A prisoner in his cell: the rules put in place a blanket ban on families sending in small items to prisoners. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Tory prisons policy produces results: suicide, murder, despair

Painting by Lucy Edkins from Mental Health in Immigration Detention Action Group Initial Report December 2013

The scandal of private healthcare in UK immigration detention centres

Phil Miller and Clare Sambrook

Gove is going but his rotten legacy remains. Photo: BBC

Selling our schools – Gove’s Trojan Horse

Ruby McGregor-Smith, chief executive, Mitie (Ed Robinson/OneRedEye)

Fail and prosper: how privatisation really works

Man, 84, dies handcuffed in hospital: UK border control by the GEO Group

Khanokporn Satjawat, a 42 year-old pharmaceutical worker from Thailand was murdered by G4S guard Clive Carter

G4S guard bludgeoned woman to death

The truth about sexual abuse in a British detention centre

Jimmy Mubenga died whilst being restrained on a British Airways plane

Jimmy Mubenga and the shame of British Airways

Who is that man in the Lord Chancellor’s seat?

A ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ to deport vulnerable children

Coalition of Liars: illegal child detention continues

When they said ‘We will end child detention,’ they meant ‘Keep on arresting babies’

How Labour’s friends are ‘securing your world’ – and making billions