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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 .
In September 2005 Manuel Bravo, an asylum seeker from Angola, hanged himself while in detention awaiting deportation with his 13-year-old son following a dawn raid at his home in Leeds. [30] In March 2014, 40-year-old Christine Case from Jamaica died at the centre from a massive pulmonary thrombo-embolism. The family were only told of her death ...
Serco subcontractors mss security: April 2010 (reopened) September 2014: 1,500: RAAF Curtin, Western Australia: Darwin Alternative Place of Detention: Opening [2] Medium: Department of Immigration and Border Protection: 585: Darwin Airport, Northern Territory: Inverbrackie Alternative Place of Detention: Closed: Medium: Serco: 18 December 2010 ...
Rishi Sunak’s plan to cut hotel use for asylum seekers by making them share rooms puts the safety of vulnerable people at risk, MPs have warned in a scathing report.. The cross-party group said ...
In March 2023, according to a Commons Library report, around 42% of people in receipt of asylum support were in hotel accommodation – 47,500 people in total.
A council has said it is doing "all it can" to reopen a hotel used to accommodate asylum seekers after it was declared unsafe. Leominster's Talbot Hotel had taken in families since August amid ...
DIBP confirmed that following this arrest seven individuals made threats of self-harm and four committed self-harm. Ten mothers were placed on "guided supportive and monitoring engagement" under the PSP, requiring 24-hour surveillance by a Serco officer. [9] On 9 November 2015, a riot began at the centre after the death of an asylum seeker. [10]
In 1976 a small section of the hostel was converted to provide security accommodation for persons awaiting deportation. This new section was named the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre. [3] [5] In 2001 the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre was the subject of controversy when 40 asylum seekers escaped.