From The Brennan Center for Justice:
A case pending in a federal appeals court could force private prison companies that run U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers to pay the state minimum wage to detainees who voluntarily work in the facilities.
For-profit firms that manage prisons and immigration detention centers have received significant media attention since Donald Trump won the 2024 election. One of Trump’s top policy priorities centers on deporting “millions and millions” of undocumented individuals, and already, ICE detention centers are now at 109 percent capacity.
Less attention has been paid to an important legal battle involving private prison company and federal contractor GEO Group, which is appealing a decision finding that it should have paid civil detainees in immigration detention facilities it operated minimum wage for doing voluntary work during their confinement. Continue reading >>>
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