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A trial over whether the GEO Group must pay minimum wage — instead of $1 a day — to immigration detainees who perform tasks like cooking and cleaning at…
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After nearly four years of litigation and pandemic-related delays, a trial is underway to determine whether the GEO Group must pay minimum wage to…
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Private prison corporation GEO Group has sued Washington state, saying a new law mandating the closure of the immigrant detention center it operates in…
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill Wednesday banning all private, for-profit prisons. The new law means the privately run Immigration and Customs…
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The Washington state Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that bans private, for-profit prison companies that contract with local, state and federal agencies…
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The Washington House of Representatives voted Tuesday to ban for-profit, private detention facilities in the state, in a move aimed at shutting down the…
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More than 200 detainees held in Tacoma by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement started a hunger strike Friday morning, activists say. Detainees at the…
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Tacoma's mayor and city manager have called Saturday's fatal shooting by police outside an ICE detention center a tragedy, and linked the death to…
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The owner of the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma plans to expand the immigrant detention facility to add more courtrooms, a training building,…
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Leaders of Tacoma, home to one of the nation's largest holding spaces for people facing deportation, plan to lobby members of Congress this week to reform…