Private prison company loses Supreme Court appeal
AP News • • nation
Key Points:
- The Supreme Court unanimously ruled against the GEO Group, a private prison company, in a procedural decision related to a lawsuit alleging immigration detainees in Colorado were forced to work for only $1 a day.
- The lawsuit, filed in 2014, claims detainees in Aurora were required to perform unpaid janitorial and other work to supplement their minimal meals.
- GEO Group argued it was immune from lawsuits as a government contractor, but the Supreme Court declined to allow a quick appeal of the lower court's ruling.
- GEO Group operates approximately 77,000 detention beds across 98 facilities and has faced similar lawsuits, including a case in Washington state where it was ordered to pay over $23 million.
- The company’s contracts
