A Private Prison Company Just Lost a Major Battle Over $1-Per-Day Wages for Immigrant Workers
28 October 2021
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28 October 2021
The people locked up in one for-profit immigration detention center are in line for one hell of a raise. For years, the GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison companies, has been able to keep labor costs low in its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers by relying on the people it locks up to do the work. Rather than hiring employees from the surrounding community to cook, clean, and perform maintenance, it enlists detainees for these essential tasks, compensating laborers in its “voluntary work program” with around $1 per day—or, as some detainees have alleged, the ...
A private prison company just lost a major battle over $1-per-day wages
The GEO Group could be on the hook for millions in damages.
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