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A sign at the entrance of the former Baxter Detention Cent, taken in 2006. The entrance of the Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre, taken in April 2003, following closure of the Centre. This is a list of current and former Australian immigration detention facilities.
The 3 new immigration detention facilities in Lorengau on Manus Island have security and some services provided by Paladin Group under a contract worth more than $423 million. [citation needed] Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre was once operated by G4S [21] but is now operated by Serco as of April 2019. [22]
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Australia operates a number of immigration detention facilities within the country, as well as several offshore processing centres. All Australian immigration detention facilities are managed by the British services company Serco on behalf of the Australian government. Australia currently has three functioning offshore centres, and ten ...
Under Australia's tough immigration policies, those attempting to reach the country by boat have been sent to detention centres - including on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru - for so ...
At least 12 refugees and asylum seekers have died in Australian immigration detention centres on Manus and Nauru, either by murder by guards or suicide or medical neglect, according to human ...
Persons arriving by unauthorized boat to Australia by calendar year. During the 2013 federal election, the Abbott-led Coalition campaigned on a policy that, if elected to government, they would "stop the boats" and would launch Operation Sovereign Borders, combining the resources of multiple government bodies under direct control of a three star general.
A federal judge in New Jersey on Tuesday struck down the state's ban on the detention of immigrants awaiting deportation, in a legal challenge by private prison operator CoreCivic. U.S. District ...