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Ankle bracelets and curfews on former immigration detainees will be stripped, with Australia’s highest court ruling them invalid. The measures stemmed from a High Court decision that ruled indefinite detention was illegal and resulted in 215 immigration detainees being released as of October 18, 2024. Of those, 143 have electronic monitoring bracelets and 126 are subject to a curfew after the federal government passed emergency legislation to add extra restrictions to the cohort.
Neither curfew nor electronic monitoring applied to 64 people — 56 of whom previously had at least one of the restrictions, which has cost the taxpayer more than $73 million. But the removal of restrictions includes 28 people being taken into police custody. Of the 215, there are 12 people convicted of murder or attempted murder, 66 for sexual offences, 97 for assault, 15 for serious drug offences, 15 for domestic violence, five for people smuggling and five had low-level or no offences.
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