TAG / UNITED KINGDOM

A broken system. A public call to fix it. As the UK reels from rising trafficking cases, officials look to victims and frontline workers for answers.

She drew her children into crime and flooded her community with cocaine. Now Deborah Mason is trading Gucci for a prison cell.

Fourteen police chiefs warn that today’s turbocharged cannabis is fueling psychosis, crime and death and are demanding it be reclassified as one of Britain’s most dangerous drugs.

As a jury convicts the guilty over a young woman’s preventable death, the deeper scandal is now impossible to deny: Psychiatric “care” in Britain isn’t failing—it’s functioning exactly as designed.

Tempted by high rent offers, landlords unwittingly become hosts to criminal drug operations that put entire communities at risk.

More than 40 kids as young as 12 were used to smuggle drugs in a network whose ringleaders were sent to jail.

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.