The mission of the Metropolitan Detention Center is to protect the public and provide a safe and secure environment of both inmates and staff under the Principles of Direct Supervision and in accordance with the American Correctional Association (ACA) standards.
Villawood Detention Centre is located in Sydney, N.S.W. Human rights have been violently breached in the Villawood Detention Centre. Private security guards employed by Australian Correction Management's deportation service section have used batons and electric cattle prods against detainees, causing injuries among the men, women and children.
As of 2002 it held 426 detainees in basic conditions. Residents regulary stage protests in the hope that their conditions may be improved.
Silverwater Correctional Centre is a minimum security Australian male prison facility, located in Holker St, Silverwater, 21km west of the Sydney central business district in New South Wales, Australia.
Australia is the only Western country with a policy of mandatory detention of asylum seekers, who can be locked up for years while their claims for refugee status are processed.
The centre in Maribyrnong detains up to 80 people at any one time. This site provides information for anyone interested in visiting detainees to offer their friendship.
The Federal Government is tenaciously standing by the whole apparatus of its Pacific Solution, despite the revelations that it's costing $4 million a year to keep the Manus Island detention centre open to house just one man.
Challenged on that multi-million dollar cost of keeping just one detainee at the Island centre, the Immigration Minister, Amanda Vanstone defended it as valid spending on border protection.
The 25-year-old Palestinian man who's been the sole occupant of the Manus Island facility for six months has been declared to be a refugee. Senator Vanstone says offshore processing is the most effective deterrent to people-smugglers that the government has found.
There are 332 refugees imprisoned in Baxter detention centre; 173 are awaiting deportation. The detention centre is 10 kilometres out of Port Augusta, past an army base and inside two tall and imposing electric fences.
A former guard at South Australia's Woomera Detention Centre has spoken out about the extent of violence inside and how it has taken its toll on detainees and staff.
The Port Augusta detention centre is for detainee women, girls and boys up to 18 years of age. It is separate from the main detention centre, Baxter. Not all women and children live at Port Augusta, since they do not want to be separated from their husbands or fathers. Detainee males over 18 years of age are not permitted to stay there, but can visit.
The Nauru detention centre is an asylum seeker detention and processing centre on the tiny island nation of Nauru. It is fully funded by the Australian government, and has housed people detained under the Pacific Solution since the Tampa affair in 2001.
The detention centre on Nauru was based on a Statement of Principles, signed on 10 September 2001 by the President of Nauru, René Harris, and the Minister for Defence of Australia, at the time Peter Reith. The statement opened the way to establish a detention centre for up to 800 people and was accompanied by a pledge of $20 million in development activities.
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