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

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/29/us-private-prisons-operator-paid-790m-to-hold-100-people-on-nauru-in-quiet-expansion-of-contract