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Date: 10-30-2021
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Judge: Robert Bryan
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Washington (Pierce County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: Washington Attorney General's Office
Defendant's Attorney: Unknown
Description: Tacoma, WA: Employment law lawyers represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendant for failing to pay minimum wages to them for working in a immigrant detention facility.
The Plaintiffs in this case were immigrant detainees who worked at a detention facility located in Washington state.
The State of Washington claimed that the GEO Group unjustly profited by running the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma — now known as the Northwest ICE Processing Center — on the backs of captive workers.
GEO Group paid the detainees $1 a day.
“Immigrants held in GEO’s for-profit facilities are not criminals and should not be beholden to enriching the corporation’s bottom line,” according to one lawyer who represented the victims individually.
Outcome: Judgement in favor of Plaintiff for $17.3 million.
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