Australasian Correctional Management

Australasian Correctional Management (ACM) was a private Australian company that existed from 1991 to 2003 and was owned by Wackenhut, a subsidiary of multinational security giant Group 4 Securicor.

History

From 1998 until 2003 ACM was responsible for running at least six Immigration detention centres in Australia. ACM also ran the Auckland Central Remand Prison (ACRP)[1] in New Zealand from its opening in July 2000 until control reverted to the Public Prisons Service in July 2005 due to the passing of the Corrections Bill 2005.[2]

ACM attracted strong criticism from the Australian left for alleged abuses of asylum seekers detained in its facilities.[3] This climaxed with a protest in Easter 2002 at the Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre. This became part of the inspiration for the video game Escape From Woomera.[4]

ACM handed over the running of these centres to its parent company Group 4 Falck (now Group 4 Securicor) in 2003. It also changed the name of its New Zealand wing to Global Expertise in Outsourcing NZ ltd (GEO) while it was still running ACRP.

Detention Centres formerly run by ACM
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References
  1. "Corrections Department NZ - Auckland Central Remand Prison". Archived from the original on 15 April 2004. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
  2. "NEW ZEALAND: First to legislate against private prisons". Prison Privatisation Report International. Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU), University of Greenwich (54). April 2003. Archived from the original on 8 June 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  3. Atkinson, Chris (20 March 2002). "Corporate Scumbag: Abusing refugees and prisoners: Australasian Correctional Management". Green Left Weekly. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  4. Tan, ABC Arts: Teresa (26 October 2018). "Close-up of Escape From Woomera on laptop". ABC News. Retrieved 23 January 2020.


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