US private prisons operator to be paid $790m to hold 100 people on Nauru in quiet expansion of contract. By Sarah Basford Canales and Ben Doherty, The Guardian

At the current rate, MTC’s contract on Nauru is worth $157m a year: to hold 105 people on the island, at nearly $1.5m per person per year. If the contract does not increase further in cost before its expiry, Australian taxpayers will have paid $430,512 a day to process asylum seekers offshore.

US private prisons operator to be paid $790m to hold 100 people on Nauru in quiet expansion of contract. By Sarah Basford Canales and Ben Doherty, The Guardian