Canstruct loses lucrative Nauru offshore processing contract to US prisons operator with controversial record

Management and Training Corporation is set to take over running Australia's immigration regime on the island

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Canstruct has lost the lucrative contract to run Australia's offshore immigration regime on Nauru with the Brisbane firm to be replaced by a US-headquartered private prisons operator that has a controversial past.

Sources have told the Guardian that Canstruct's current contract, set to end on 30 September, will not be renewed and from 1 October facilities, garrison, transferee arrivals and reception services" will be run by Management and Training Corporation (MTC) Australia.

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