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The NHS spent nearly $3 billion last year outsourcing psychiatric care to for-profit private hospitals like Priory—where patients are dying from abuse, neglect and chemical restraint.

A government report shows Britain’s anti-slavery law isn’t stopping the rise of forced labor and trafficking. Reports, referrals and exploitation are all at record highs.

Psychiatric staff in the UK restrained, humiliated and assaulted vulnerable patients while colleagues turned a blind eye. A disturbing new study reveals just how deep the abuse goes.

“Debt bondage” victims found themselves kidnapped and enslaved on illegal cannabis farms, servicing a pot industry that is booming in the UK.

A new report reveals that staff at Cygnet Joyce Parker Hospital sadistically dragged children to put them in needless restraints—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Xylazine is a super-powerful horse tranquilizer that’s cheaper than fentanyl, and often mixed with the drug. It’s a deadly combination. 

The government spent over $1.1 million in 2023 fighting lawsuits filed by citizens for Freedom of Information Act disclosures. They are following the US tradition of secrecy. 

An English outpost of the burger chain is the unwitting enabler of a profitable racket run by a gang of Czech criminals, trapping victims into turning over their income—and their freedom.