The Albanese Government’s new $2.3 billion deal with the US private prison operator, Management and Training Corporation (MTC), to run Australia’s onshore immigration detention network marks a troubling departure from its promise that “detention will occur in a government-run immigration detention centre."
Australia: “We’re going to be proud of our forefathers who were forced to serve their prison sentence here by creating our own for-profit prison system! Now we can finally play with the big boys USA and China.”
It’s not like they had a lot to choose from (though they could have tried not outsourcing at all…) as the other big names here like Serco, Wilsons and G4 have proven themselves even worse.
honoring the tradition