January 28, 2022
Akerman LLP will cease representing GEO Group in a California class action over $1-a-day wages for ICE-detained immigrants, with the company's in-house counsel helming an upcoming trial instead, according to a source.
December 14, 2021
Attorneys representing Washington state in a suit accusing private prison operator giant GEO Group of paying detainees $1 a day to maintain the company's detention center will receive a $4.4 million fee, after a federal judge granted the award Tuesday.
December 08, 2021
A Washington federal court on Wednesday refused to toss out or reduce a jury verdict requiring private prison operator GEO Group to pay $17.3 million in withheld wages to detainees who were paid $1 a day to maintain their detention center.
November 12, 2021
The GEO Group asked a Washington federal judge Thursday to overturn a $17.3 million jury verdict in favor of a class of detainees at a major U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding site, arguing that there is no employer-employee relationship between a detention facility and detainees and state and federal minimum wage laws do not apply.
November 03, 2021
The GEO Group was ordered Wednesday to pay $5.9 million to the state of Washington and immediately begin paying the minimum wage to detainees at a major U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding site, just days after a class of former workers won a $17.3 million jury verdict.
October 31, 2021
A Seattle federal jury awarded $17.3 million Friday to a class of immigrant detainees after finding earlier that GEO Group broke Washington law by paying just $1 per day for their help running a major ICE detention facility.
October 27, 2021
A federal jury sided Wednesday with Washington's attorney general and thousands of immigrant detainees who said private prison giant GEO Group broke the law by paying only $1 per day for their labor at a large ICE detention site.
October 19, 2021
A Washington federal judge denied GEO Group's request that he order U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement's director to testify in the middle of a retrial over its $1-a-day wages for migrant detainees at a Tacoma holding center.
October 07, 2021
Private prison contractor GEO Group told a Washington federal court that a recent Ninth Circuit decision vindicated its practice of paying detained migrants $1 per day for work performed at its Tacoma facility, days before its retrial is due to begin.
August 20, 2021
GEO Group can't use its status as a federal government contractor to claim governmental immunity from the state of Washington's claims that the company's policy of paying immigrant detainees just $1 per day violates state wage laws, a Washington federal judge ruled.