Supreme Court to hear private prison company appeal in suit over immigration detainee $1-a-day wages

The Supreme Court has agreed to perceive an entreaty from a backstage situation institution facing a suit claiming migration detainees were forced to enactment and paid a $1 a time successful Colorado

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to perceive an entreaty from a backstage situation institution facing a suit claiming migration detainees were forced to enactment and paid a $1 a time successful Colorado.

The GEO Group appealed to the precocious tribunal aft a justice refused to flip retired the 2014 suit saying the detainees had to execute some unpaid janitorial enactment and different jobs for small wage to supplement meager meals.

The institution says the lawsuits are truly a backmost doorway mode to propulsion backmost against national migration policy, and its wage rates are successful enactment with Immigration and Customs Enforcement regulations.

They accidental the migrants can’t writer due to the fact that it's moving Aurora, Colorado, installation connected behalf of the government, which is immune from specified lawsuits.

Attorneys for the migrants accidental the suit is lone astir radical being paid “almost nothing” for their work, and the declaration didn't necessitate them to wage truthful little.

A little tribunal justice allowed the suit to spell guardant and the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals recovered it couldn't reappraisal the immunity assertion earlier trial. The GEO Group argued to the Supreme Court that authorities contractors should beryllium capable to reason that contented connected entreaty quickly.

The Florida-based GEO Group is 1 of the apical backstage detention providers successful the country, with absorption oregon ownership of astir 77,000 beds astatine 98 facilities. Its contracts see a caller national migration detention halfway wherever Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested astatine a protest successful May.

Similar lawsuits person been brought connected behalf of migration detainees elsewhere, including a Washington authorities case wherever the institution was ordered to wage much than $23 million.

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Associated Press writer Mike Catalini successful Trenton, New Jersey, contributed reporting.

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