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State of Washington v. The GEO Group Inc

  1. July 16, 2021

    GEO Bulks Up Legal Team Ahead Of $1-A-Day Wage Retrial

    GEO Group Inc. has added prominent conservative lawyer Charles J. Cooper to its defense team for a retrial on claims that it paid detained immigrant workers just $1 per day, a proceeding slated to begin in October after a mistrial last month.

  2. June 25, 2021

    Wash. State Says Retrial In GEO $1-A-Day Wage Suit Is Urgent

    Washington state's attorney general asked a federal court Thursday to set retrial for as soon as possible in its suit over $1-a-day wages for detained immigrant workers, saying a recent mistrial shouldn't justify letting an ongoing injustice "linger without resolution."

  3. June 17, 2021

    Mistrial Declared In GEO $1-A-Day Wage Suit

    A Washington federal judge ordered a mistrial Thursday after a jury deliberating for over two days could not agree on whether GEO Group wrongly denied minimum wage to thousands of detained immigrants paid $1 a day.

  4. June 15, 2021

    GEO Put Profits Before Labor Laws, Jury Hears In Closings

    The state of Washington made its final argument to a jury Tuesday that GEO Group took advantage of detained immigrants as a captive workforce of nearly free labor because the private prison giant felt it was "answerable only to shareholders," not to state law.

  5. June 14, 2021

    Prison Co. Exec Says ICE Approval Needed To Pay Min. Wage

    GEO Group rested in a wage trial Monday after its compliance czar testified that although U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement doesn't block it from paying detainees more than $1 a day, the private prison company feels federal approval would be necessary to make a "material change" in operations like paying them minimum wage.

  6. June 11, 2021

    Low Wage Is Fine When State Is Paying, GEO Witness Says

    GEO Group sought Friday to bolster its claim that Washington state's trial over immigrant wages at a detention center it runs is hypocritical, bringing a witness who testified that the state itself pays just a couple of dollars an hour for resident work at a different non-criminal commitment facility.

  7. June 10, 2021

    GEO Hints At Banned Email As $1 Wage Defense Begins

    GEO Group began its trial defense Thursday in a class action claiming it grossly underpaid immigrants who filled important work shifts at a Washington Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detention facility, drawing numerous objections as it asked a state employee questions related to an email banned from trial in which she said detainees aren't eligible for minimum wage.

  8. June 08, 2021

    Detainees' 'Payroll' Line Item Isn't Payroll, Jury Told

    Jurors in a trial over $1 daily wages for ICE detainees heard Tuesday that site operator GEO Group listed detainees' work shifts as 'payroll' because that's how ICE kept track of things, not because the detainees were doing actual work subject to minimum-wage laws.

  9. 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.

  10. 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."

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