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.
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @08:32AM (7 children)
According to Romero's cellmates and family, authorities failed to provide Romero with painkillers despite his repeated requests.[30] In a letter written to his mother shortly before his death, Romero stated: "I'm in hell. They don't give me nothing for my pain."
What a fucking pussy.
That lucky asshole said he was in hell? He should have had my mother. My mother denied me cold medicine as a child. My mother denied me pain killers after a back injury. My mother told me I should walk with a cane for the rest of my life. Eventually I regained full range of motion, no thanks to my mother.
Fuck that guy! Free citizens have worse lives than him!
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @08:44AM (4 children)
You're the pussy. Whining about a little back pain when some people are paralyzed or have arthritis. And cold medicine don't do shit except get you high if it's DXM.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @08:58AM (3 children)
Just found the scum of the earth, and it's you.
I was paralyzed by my back injury to the degree that I couldn't walk or stand and I had to crawl to a phone to call an ambulance.
Arthritis? Arthritis?? That's nothing! You stupid presumptuous piece of shit. You have no idea how debilitating a back injury can be or how painful it is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @09:03AM (1 child)
It could not have been that bad, because you haven't died or offed yourself yet.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @09:08AM
Why should I kill myself when I haven't killed you yet?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @01:39PM
You call that difficult! You pansy! I was transformed into an unkillable single cellular organism and tortured by a sadistic planet-scale supercomputer!
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 17 2017, @09:29AM
Just from curiosity: have you killed her yet? If not, when are you planning to do so?
The rest of your replies show a strong inclination towards such actions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Tuesday April 18 2017, @09:25AM
So righteous you feel the need to post as AC, huh?
No. You're fully aware you're just being an asshole.
(I'm really no good at ignoring trolls.)