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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday against a private prison company facing a lawsuit alleging immigration detainees were forced to work and pay just $1 a day in Colorado.
The unanimous ruling is a procedural defeat for GEO Group, but it is not a final decision. The company faces a lawsuit from 2014 alleging that detainees at Aurora were forced to perform unpaid guard work and other jobs for little pay to supplement meager meals.
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GEO defended its practices and said the case should be dismissed because it is immune from lawsuits as a government contractor.
After a judge disagreed, the company asked the Supreme Court to allow it to quickly appeal the ruling. But the judges refused.
Florida-based GEO Group is one of the nation’s top providers of private detention services, managing or owning about 77,000 beds in 98 facilities. Its contracts include a new federal immigration detention center where Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested during a protest in May 2025, before the case against the Democrat was dropped.
Similar lawsuits have been filed on behalf of immigration detainees elsewhere, including a case in Washington state, where the company was ordered to pay more than $23 million.
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