US firm fined for Australian immigration security failures. How much? Border force refuses to say
by Josh Butler, Ariel Bogle and Christopher Knaus from World news | The Guardian on (#75XVR)
Gavan Reynolds cites commercial-in-confidence nature of the contract' in declining to answer Greens senator's question in parliament
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The US private prison company running Australian immigration detention centres was slapped with penalties by the Australian government after allowing a dozen escapes, but the head of the Australian Border Force has declined to reveal the cost of the punishment.
Greens senator David Shoebridge was scathing of what he called a disturbing set of reports" about private prison company MTC and its local subsidiary Secure Journeys, revealed in a Guardian Australia investigation this week.
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