Supreme Court to hear private prison company appeal in suit over immigration detainee $1-a-day wages
June 2, 2025
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from a private prison company facing a lawsuit claiming immigration detainees were forced to work and paid a $1 a day in Colorado. The high court took up the case Monday. The GEO Group appealed to the high court after a judge refused to toss out the 2014 lawsuit. The company says the lawsuits are really a back door way to push back against federal immigration policy and its pay rates are in line with Immigration and Customs Enforcement regulations. They say the immigrants can’t sue because they’re running the facilities on behalf of the government, which is immune from such lawsuits.
