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Serco runs four prisons, a Young Offenders Institution and a Secure Training Centre. [78] It has operated two Immigration Removal Centres since 2007. [79] [80] Serco is responsible for the contracted-out court escort services in the south-east area, formerly a role undertaken by HM Prison Service. [81]
Villawood Immigration Detention Centre: Operational: Maximum: Serco [16] 1981: 510; [190] Villawood, New South Wales Wickham Point Immigration Detention Centre: Closed: Maximum: Department of Immigration and Border Protection: 8 December 2011: July 2016: 1,000: Wickham, Northern Territory: Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre ...
Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) is an Australian immigration detention centre in the Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows. It was built on part of the Maygar Barracks site. It is operated by Serco under contract to the Australian Border Force .
The design of the centre is modelled on a high security, Category B criminal prison with wings running into a central area. Each cell is designed to hold two detainees. There is a toilet built into the cell. [citation needed] The centre is operated by Mitie who also operate Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre.
Brook House Immigration Removal Centre is a privately managed detention centre in England, operated by Serco on behalf of the Home Office. It is in the grounds of Gatwick Airport, Crawley, West Sussex. Brook House opened in March 2009 [1] as a newly built facility with a capacity of 448 detainees, which increased to 508 in 2017.
The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 formally changed the name of "detention centres" to "removal centres". Both operation centres ran by G4S Group (as of 2018. Since 2020 both centres have been run by Serco) are located near Gatwick Airport :
Tinsley House is managed by security firm Serco on behalf of Border Force. [2] [3] When Tinsley House was established in 1996, it was the UK's first purpose-built detention centre. [4] Since then, the UK's detention estate has expanded substantially and there are now nine immigration removal centres.
Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre is a detention centre for foreign nationals prior to their deportation from the United Kingdom, one of 10 such centres currently in the UK. [1] It is located near Milton Ernest in Bedfordshire , England, and is operated by Serco , [ 2 ] which describes the place as "a fully contained residential centre ...