CorpWatch : Private Prison for Asylum Seekers on Pacific Island
►http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15784
by Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch Blog
September 17th, 2012
Transfield Services, an Australian logistics company that provides services to the mining and oil industry among others, has won a A$24.5 million (US$25.9 million) contract from the government of Australia to run a detention center for asylum seekers in the Pacific island nation of Nauru.
Australia’s immigration detention centers have a long and controversial history of being managed by private contractors. Australasian Correctional Management and G4S were heavily criticized for contracts won in 1997 and 2003 respectively. Recently guards for Serco, a British contractor that runs a number of detention centers and prisons in Australia, were accused of brutality including beating detainees at the Christmas Island center, as Patrick O’Keeffe reported for CorpWatch last year.
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