210 Department of Home Affairs, Immigration Detention and Community Statistics Summary June 2024 (31 July
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211 Australian Human Rights Commission, Human rights standards for immigration detention (April 2013),
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immigration_detention.pdf>.
212 United Nations General Assembly, United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
(the Nelson Mandela Rules), A/RES/70/175 (8 January 2016), Rule 13.
213 Australian Human Rights Commission, Human rights standards for immigration detention (April 2013), Rule
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214 Information extracted from the VIDC DCC Minutes March 2024 provided to the Commission by the
Department on 14 July 2024.
215 Ibid.
216 Commonwealth Ombudsman. Access All Areas: Monitoring Places of Detention 2022-23 6th Report of the
Commonwealth National Preventive Mechanism (May 2024), 27. <https://www.ombudsman.gov.au/__data/
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217 Australian Human Rights Commission, Inspection of Perth Immigration Detention Centre: Report 21 AUGUST
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218 Engstrom, K and Ginneken, E, Ethical Prison Architecture: A Systematic Literature Review of Prison Design
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219 Ibid, 489; Jewkes, Y, and Moran, D, Should prison architecture be brutal, bland or beautiful? Scottish Justice
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220 United Nations General Assembly, United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
(the Nelson Mandela Rules), A/RES/70/175 (8 January 2016), Rule 14(a).
221 Council of Europe, European Prison Rules (2020), Rule 18.2(a)
222 European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,
Living space per prisoner in prison establishments: CPT standards (15 December 2015), 7. <https://rm.coe.
int/16806cc449>.
223 Commonwealth Ombudsman. Access All Areas: Monitoring Places of Detention 2022-23 6th Report of the
Commonwealth National Preventive Mechanism (May 2024), 25. <https://www.ombudsman.gov.au/__data/
assets/pdf_file/0010/304102/Commonwealth-NPM-Annual-Report-2022-23.pdf>.
224 Information provided to the Commission by the Department on 14 June 2024.
225 Information provided to the Commission by the Department on 14 June 2024.
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