Serco, who run the Yarls Wood detention centre in the UK (Bedfordshire) are potentially looking to open and run a new detention centre designed to hold families including children near the U.S. Mexican border. They also run the Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre which again seems to have had problems. It concerns me that there is a position of locking people up who have committed no crime and also that I believe that Serco are interesting in profiting from and enlarging this market.
The article below states that housing people in less restrictive settings is a more cost effective way of ensuring that they attend their immigration court hearings.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/09/texas-mexico-detention-center-serco-obama-administration
Article about the reality of
Article about the reality of life in Nauru detention centre, not run by Serco but another company called Broadspectrum.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/20/the-worst-ive-seen-trauma-expert-lifts-lid-on-atrocity-of-australias-detention-regime