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KUOW-FM reports about two detention centres operated by The GEO Group, Inc., formerly called the Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (ticker symbol GEO). Detainees for the centres are provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
A class action lawsuit says the company running an immigration detention center in Colorado is violating federal anti-slavery laws. It's the same company that runs the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, scene of an expanding hunger strike.
[...] Nina Disalvo is an attorney for the detainees in Colorado. She said it's illegal to pay them $1 a day.
"It's not the market wage that GEO would have to pay [...]," Disalvo said.
The Seattle Times via The News Tribune quoted a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson, concerning the hunger strike at the Tacoma facility:
"The sole detainee who is continuing to refuse meals has been allowed to remain in the general population, but the facility personnel are monitoring him closely," Kice wrote of the strike that began Monday.
Kice said about one-third of the civil detainees — who are awaiting immigration hearings or deportation — refused meals but, citing fluctuating numbers, did not provide exact numbers of those who participated in the strike. As of Friday morning, the population count at the facility was 1,401.
According to Free Speech Radio News,
In March, a federal judge approved class-action status for a lawsuit alleging at least 60,000 past and present detainees held at the Aurora ICE facility were forced to do janitorial work, clerical work, landscaping and other jobs for free or $1 a day.
Those who refuse are threatened with solitary confinement.
Additional coverage:
- Seattle Weekly
- The Seattle Times (try disabling CSS if page appears blank)
- Think Progress
- Democracy Now
- Patheos blog
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @06:09AM (5 children)
It's not slavery if you get paid. No person is bought or sold as property. Complete horseshit.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by mhajicek on Monday April 17 2017, @06:12AM (3 children)
It's slavery if you don't have a choice.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @08:04AM
Suck my cock, sex slave.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Tuesday April 18 2017, @09:23AM (1 child)
It's more subtle than that.
In a society with no welfare system 'safety net', you work or you die, but we wouldn't call that slavery exactly.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday April 18 2017, @02:08PM
Not sure if you're being deliberately obtuse. If you're physically prevented from leaving and seeking other employment it's slavery.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @01:36PM
Exactly! Arbeit macht frei!