A major United States private prison company, Management and Training Corporation (MTC), has secured a massive $2.3 billion contract from the Australian government to operate its onshore detention facilities. MTC, which operates through its local subsidiary Secure Journeys Pty Ltd, won the massive contract on top of the lucrative deal MTC already holds to run offshore processing facilities on Nauru.
That Nauru contract was quietly expanded last year, resulting in the government paying $790 million to house just 100 people. This is a stunning development given the growing scrutiny over MTC’s history in the US.
