The Pentagon has announced that it has awarded Britain’s Group 4 Securicor (G4S) a $118 million contract for “support” services related to the detention center at Guantanamo Bay.
The move is expected to be hugely controversial, given G4S’s checkered history and ongoing investigations by the British government’s Serious Fraud Office, which is looking into allegations of serious fraud.
The probe is related to evidence that G4S was overcharging the British government for “tagging” released criminal, charging them for people who weren’t actually tagged, and several people who were already dead.
G4S is also facing allegations of torturing prisoners in the facilities it operates in South Africa. The company has promised an internal investigation into that matter. Britain briefly banned G4S from bidding on any further government contracts, but a payment of over 100 million pounds ended the ban.
Sounds like the perfect corporate partner for the USG to keep committing atrocities. No doubt they're being rewarded for being as corrupt and criminal as the Brit and American governments like.
Makes sense- hire a British company to support an American military prison on an American military base a short flight away from Florida. Clearly, there are no American security companies who are even remotely capable of doing the job. Besides, why are we hiring more support for a prison that the President promised the nation he was going to close? Maybe repatriate the prisoners who have already been cleared, move the ones actually on trial to Leavenworth, and shut the prison down altogether and save a few million dollars a month?