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  1. June 07, 2021

    Detainee's No-Work Status No Problem For GEO, Jury Hears

    A former ICE detainee held in a GEO Group facility testified Monday that it didn't make sense that she was put to work doing laundry in the building after she had been detained for having no work authorization.

  2. June 03, 2021

    $1-A-Day GEO Work Was Real Job, Ex-Detainee Testifies

    An immigrant who worked serving food to fellow ICE detainees while being held at a GEO Group facility testified Thursday that his work wasn't just volunteering, which doesn't fall under minimum-wage protections, and said if he hadn't been getting paid he would simply "read a book."

  3. June 02, 2021

    GEO Exploited Detainees To Run Large ICE Site, AG Tells Jury

    Private prison giant GEO Group kept a large U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-contracted immigration holding site running by hiring detainees to cook meals and wash clothes for just $1 per day, a lawyer for the Washington attorney general told jurors at the start of trial on Wednesday.

  4. June 01, 2021

    ​​​​​​​Prison Co. Wants Detainee Class Tossed In $1 Wage Suit

    A private prison contractor is once again attempting to winnow a class of detained migrants who say it violated Washington state labor laws by paying them wages as low as $1 a day, saying the remaining lead plaintiff's claims aren't common enough to sustain the class.

  5. May 27, 2021

    ICE Detention Co. Can't Limit Claims In $1 Daily Wages Trial

    Private prison giant GEO Group Inc. can't invoke a Washington wage law's three-year statute of limitations to limit the state's case in a jury trial on allegations that it paid $1-a-day wages to immigrant detainees, a federal judge held Wednesday.

  6. April 26, 2021

    ICE Contractor Cites Chauvin Case In Push For In-Person Trial

    A private prison company accused of violating Washington labor laws by paying immigration detainees wages of $1 per day wants its trial to be held primarily in-person, citing the trial of Derek Chauvin as proof that such proceedings can be safe.

  7. March 31, 2021

    GEO Group Fights Zoom Trial Over Detainees' $1 Daily Wages

    Private prison giant GEO Group Inc. fought back against having to mount a virtual defense against allegations of paying $1-a-day wages to immigrant detainees, telling a Washington state federal judge that issues of procedural fairness will "hang heavy over the trial."

  8. March 16, 2021

    ICE Contractor Trial Over Dollar-A-Day Wages Set For June

    Private prison giant GEO Group must face a June virtual trial on class and government claims it paid abominably low wages to detained immigrant workers, a Washington federal court ruled Tuesday, saying that despite GEO's objections, trial backlogs necessitate getting the show on the road.

  9. April 08, 2020

    Judge Says It's Unclear If ICE Detainees Are Employees

    A prison contractor for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can't escape class allegations that it paid detainees below minimum wage in a work program after a Washington federal judge said it was unclear whether the detainees meet the definition of employees.

  10. January 08, 2020

    Detainees Say ICE Prison Contractor's $1-A-Day Pay Is Illegal

    A class of immigrant detainees has urged a Washington federal judge to find that prison operator GEO Group violated a state wage law by paying them $1 a day, accusing the company of trying to hide behind its government contract.

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