Washington– Washington (AFP) – supreme court A court ruled Wednesday against a private prison company facing a lawsuit alleging immigration detainees were forced to work and paid just $1 a day in Colorado.
The unanimous ruling is a procedural defeat for GEO Group, but it is not a final decision. The company faces a lawsuit from 2014 alleging that detainees at Aurora were forced to perform unpaid guard work and other jobs for little pay to supplement meager meals.
GEO defended its practices and said the case should be dismissed because it is immune from lawsuits as a government contractor.
After a judge disagreed, the company asked the Supreme Court to allow it to quickly appeal the ruling. But the judges refused.
Florida-based GEO Group is one of the nation’s top providers of private detention services, managing or owning about 77,000 beds in 98 facilities. Its contracts include the construction of a new federal immigration detention center where the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, is located Ras Baraka He was arrested in protest In May 2025, before the lawsuit against the Democrat was dropped.
Similar lawsuits have been filed on behalf of immigration detainees elsewhere, including… Case in Washington stateThe company was ordered to pay more than $23 million.
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