Investigations
A Story of Cover-ups and Corporate Neglect
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When private companies assume control over people’s lives and build their business on managing them, they carry a heightened responsibility to ensure that their operations are conducted with integrity and care. This obligation is especially pressing for Allied Universal, the world’s largest private security company, which in 2021 acquired G4S, a firm already implicated in several serious human rights violations. The Another Dead Prisoner project casts a stark light on conditions inside the G4S-run Mangaung Correctional Facility in South Africa. It was here that Danish citizen Peter Frederiksen lost his life in 2024. Multiple inmates have alleged that Frederiksen was subjected to violent treatment by staff, including electric shocks from the guard’s electrified shields.

