Supreme Court rules against private prison firm alleged to have forced immigrant detainees to work for $1 a day
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Key Points:
- The Supreme Court unanimously ruled against the GEO Group in a procedural decision related to a lawsuit alleging that immigration detainees in Colorado were forced to work for only $1 a day.
- The lawsuit, filed in 2014, claims detainees in Aurora performed unpaid janitorial and other jobs for minimal pay to supplement their meals, but the case is not yet resolved.
- GEO Group argued it should be immune from lawsuits as a government contractor, but the Supreme Court declined to allow a fast appeal of the lower court's ruling.
- The Florida-based GEO Group manages about 77,000 beds across 98 facilities and has faced similar lawsuits, including one in Washington state where it was ordered to pay over $23 million.
- The ruling represents a
