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Privatised Immigration Detention Services: Challenges and Opportunities for Implementing Human Rights

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posted on 2024-06-06, 03:47 authored by Tania PenovicTania Penovic
The management of closed environments such as prisons and immigration detention facilities has traditionally been a core function of the state. The decision to outsource the management of such facilities in Australia has followed a global trend towards private delivery of government services. The management of Australia's immigration detention facilities was outsourced in 1998 and has operated under three principal contractual regimes. This article examines these regimes and considers the challenges and opportunities they have presented to the realisation of human rights. It concludes that privatisation has undermined the realisation of human rights, with the conditions of detention and treatment of detainees undermined by cost cutting, the removal of direct ministerial responsibility and insufficient transparency and monitoring.

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Journal

Law in Context

Volume

31

Pagination

10-47

ISSN

0811-5796

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Issue

1

Publisher

La Trobe University Law School

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