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Northern Immigration Detention Centre is a facility operated by the Australian
Department of Immigration Website
Prisons in the Northern Territory Immigration detention centres and prisons of Australia Buildings and structures in Darwin, Northern Territory {{NorthernTerritory-stub
Northern Immigration Detention Centre is a facility operated by the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection
The Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) was a department of the Government of Australia that was responsible for immigration, citizenship and border control (including visa issuance). It has now been subsumed into the Depart ...
to house people and process their applications concerning immigration detention. It is located at Coonawarra, an outer Darwin suburb and is described as primarily accommodating illegal foreign fishers. It has an operating capacity of 554 people.
In 2009, it was managed by G4S
G4S is a British Multinational corporation, multinational private security company headquartered in London, England. The company was set up in 2004 when London-based Securicor amalgamated with Danish firm Group 4 Falck. The company offers a ran ...
, a private company, but this is no longer the case.
On 30 August 2010 100 detainees staged a riot and climbed on the roofs of buildings in the facility. The following day 90 Afghan inmates escaped and staged a peaceful protest along the side of the Stuart Highway
Stuart Highway is a major Australia, Australian highway. It runs from Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin, in the Northern Territory, via Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, to Port Augusta in South Australia; a distance of . Its northern and sou ...
nearby.
See also
*List of Australian immigration detention facilities
This is a list of current and former Australian immigration detention facilities. Immigration detention facilities are used to house people in immigration detention, and people detained under the Pacific Solution, and Operation Sovereign Borde ...
References
External links
Department of Immigration Website
Prisons in the Northern Territory Immigration detention centres and prisons of Australia Buildings and structures in Darwin, Northern Territory {{NorthernTerritory-stub