North West Point Immigration Detention Centre - Wikipedia
North West Point Immigration Detention Centre, formerly Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre is an Australian immigration detention facility located on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
Report from the Christmas Island Detention Centre - ASRC
The Christmas Island detention centre holds around 30 men seeking asylum mixed in with about 200 men exiting prisons from across Australia after serving sentences of varying length for crimes of varying severity.
Immigration detention on Christmas Island - Australian Human …
Dec 1, 2012 · Christmas Island IDC, a high security detention centre used for adult males, with an operational capacity of 400 and a contingency capacity of 850. When the Commission visited, there were 975 adult men detained in the IDC.
2009 Immigration detention and offshore processing on Christmas Island
The Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre (IDC) is a high security detention centre that looks like a prison. The construction camp facility is not appropriate for unaccompanied minors or families with children.
Christmas Island detention centre has closed after 10 years
Oct 4, 2018 · For the first time in a decade, no asylum seeker or immigration detainee is imprisoned on Christmas Island.
2010 Immigration detention on Christmas Island
Three Commission staff members visited Christmas Island from 28 May to 3 June 2010. The purpose of the visit was to monitor conditions in immigration detention against internationally accepted human rights standards. The activities undertaken during the visit are set out in …
There's more to the reopening of Christmas Island's detention
Aug 5, 2020 · Immigration experts say Australia's decision to reopen the controversial immigration detention centre on Christmas Island is to keep detainees "out of sight and out of mind".
Cost blowouts and human rights concerns: Inside the Howard
A decision to build an offshore detention centre on Christmas Island was fast-tracked despite the "enormous cost" and human rights concerns, according to newly released cabinet documents.
A Letter From Christmas Island, Australia’s Forgotten ... - VICE
Mar 12, 2018 · One man had been fined by his local council for burning off in his suburban backyard during a fire ban. He’s now been in detention here on Christmas Island for two years.
The ASRC supports the Australian Human Rights Commission’s …
Jun 16, 2021 · The Commission findings conclude that Christmas Island is unsuitable for ongoing immigration detention, especially in the current pandemic – recommending that the Australian Government should urgently decommission the use of all immigration detention facilities on Christmas Island and the use of semi-permanent hotel APODs for ongoing periods ...