Workers accuse new company managing Australia’s immigration detention centres of running them ‘like a prison’. By Ariel Bogle and Christopher Knaus, The Guardian

Australia’s new onshore immigration detention operator has been accused by workers and their union of unsafe and “deliberate” levels of understaffing, as the number of critical incidents increase in the centres.

The US private prison company Management & Training Corporation – which has played a key role in the US immigration crackdown – has operated Australia’s onshore detention network since March 2025.

Workers accuse new company managing Australia’s immigration detention centres of running them ‘like a prison’. By Ariel Bogle and Christopher Knaus, The Guardian