Denham Sadler

After raking in $7.6bn over 15 years, Serco's reign over Australia's immigration detention network will soon be over. Across this time, the system has been transformed into one of the world's "most extreme and secretive". My story for @SatPaper: https://t.co/tUNFkzCZZq

One boy being held at Canberra's only youth prison has not been allowde to hug a family member for two years. The facility is the only in the country to have a blanket ban on any physical contact during visitations. https://t.co/BQYr1nJfDl

RT @7ampodcast: On Nauru, there are close to 100 asylum seekers who have been released from detention but are forbidden to work and are sur…

RT @ReintegrationAu: Good to hear that the Minister will soon announce a trial prison healthcare service delivered by an Aboriginal communi…

RT @SatPaper: Asylum seekers released from detention on Nauru last month are living in the community but are struggling to afford food, wat…

The Victorian government is considering a trial of an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation directly providing healthcare to First Nations people in prison, based on a similar trial in the ACT. https://t.co/DhJ00DWz6g

I spoke with a number of people on Nauru who attempted to seek asylum in Australia and are now living in the community, unable to leave or work. They told me they are unable to afford basic necessities like food and water. My story for @SatPaper: https://t.co/roD4a9PwNW

RT @SatPaper: Asylum seekers released from detention on Nauru last month are living in the community but are struggling to afford food, wat…

My story for @crikey_news on the impact of indefinite immigration detention on the South Sudanese community in Australia and the @ASRC1’s class action challenging the legality of it. https://t.co/8mdWVBsCjM

My story in the latest issue of About Time, Australia's national prison newspaper, on how states and territories around the country are providing access to laptops and tablets in prisons, and the push for greater access to technology. https://t.co/hljbG9JEf4

This from Australia's "progressive" party.

Paul Karp @Paul_Karp

#breaking Labor introduces bill for Oz to pay a third country to offer a visa to non-citizens released from immigration detention, triggering bridging visa cancellation, and possible REDETENTION OF THE 200+ PEOPLE RELEASED AS A RESULT OF NZYQ decision. https://t.co/lUDYmc0Fa2

This is the company the Victorian government has selected to run two prisons in the state and deliver healthcare across all men's public prisons.

Vacro @ReintegrationAu

GEO Group was the first corporation to make a maximum donation to the Trump campaign. Its stock has soared bc the market expects Trump to boost GEO’s global private prison & immigration detention business. That business includes two prisons here in VIC: Ravenhall and Fulham. https://t.co/VsQgwWYJLg

The Victorian government has announced it will subsidise the cost of prison phone calls "in the short term", but is yet to reveal how much these calls will now cost and when this will come into effect. https://t.co/qYUbQXFkt6

My story in the latest issue of About Time, Australia's national prison newspaper, on Queensland becoming the first state to make painkillers more accessible in prisons, and whether others will follow suit. https://t.co/DRicv6lyJx

The prison disciplinary process is extremely opaque, unjust and lacking in procedural fairness. And in Australia's two largest states there is no way to appeal or review these decisions, which can have huge ramifications. https://t.co/cKODTX2RDI

After a number of deaths in custody, Scotland has successfully gotten all children out of its prisons. After a number of deaths in custody, Australia is moving in the other direction. https://t.co/bh2dbTvsOE

RT @OzRefugeeCounc: Flaws in Australia’s refugee laws means asylum seekers in the country on so-called fast-track visas are barred from uni…