Overview
Towards Justice fights to end labor trafficking whether in the form of individualized cruelty or systemic, structural coercion. In 2014, together with co-counsel, Towards Justice filed a class-action lawsuit against the GEO Group, Inc. (GEO), which operates a 1,500-bed immigrant detention facility in Aurora, CO. The suit, brought by civil detainees who worked for GEO for either $1 per day or for no wages at all and under threat of solitary confinement, alleges that GEO violated state law and federal prohibitions against forced labor. Towards Justice represents the plaintiffs with co-counsel Outten & Golden LLP, The Kelman Buescher Firm, Milstein Law Office, Law Office of R. Andrew Free, and The Meyer Law Office, PC.
Case Documents
Press Releases
Press Coverage
- 4/4/2018 When Migrants Are Treated Like Slaves
- 11/30/2017 New Report Questions Detainee Labor Compensation at Private Prisons
- 11/21/2017 Big Money As Private Immigrant Jails Boom
- 6/22/2017 Ex-detainees: Detention center's practices border on slavery
- 6/9/2017 The Use of Forced Labor in Private Immigration Detention Centers
- 4/11/2017 Lawsuit May Set Precedent On Forced Immigrant Labor In Private Prisons
- 4/3/2017 How a Private Prison Company Used Detained Immigrants for Free Labor
- 3/7/2017 Can for-profit prisons force detained immigrants to work?
- 3/5/2017 Thousands of ICE detainees claim they were forced into labor, a violation of anti-slavery laws
- 3/3/2017 About 60,000people now involved in lawsuit claiming forced labor at Aurora immigration detention center
- 3/2/2017 Class action suit: Immigrants held in Aurora required to work for $1 a day, threatened with solitary if refused
- 3/1/2017 Forced to work? 60,000 undocumented immigrants may sue detention center
- 2/28/2017 Prison Slavery: Over 50,000 Detainees Claim Forced Labor, Sue Private Prison Company
- 2/28/2017 Forced labor dispute: Detained immigrants suing a private prison company over forced labor move forward with groundbreaking class action
- 2/27/2017 Detainees Sue Private Prison for 'Forced Labor'
- 2/27/2017 Judge OKs Class of 50K Detainees In TVPA Suit Against GEO
- 8/5/2015 Prison Co. Seeks Reconsideration In Detainee Labor Suit
- 7/23/2015 At Low Pay, Government Hires Immigrants Held At Detention Centers
- 7/15/2015 Judge OKs forced labor lawsuit against detention center contractor
- 7/10/2015 Private Prison Company Forced Immigrants To Work For Free, Lawsuit Says
- 7/8/2015 GEO Lawsuit Alleging Forced Labor of Immigrant Detainees Moves Forward
- 10/31/2014 Detention Center Forced Immigrants To Work For $1 Per Day Or Face Solitary Confinement Lawsuit Says
- 10/23/2014 Lawsuit Accuses Aurora private prison of paying immigrants $1 a day
- 10/23/2014 GEO Sued for Minimum Wage and Forced Labor Law Violations, and Unjust Enrichment
- 10/23/2014 Lawsuit accuses Aurora immigrant jail of forcing inmates to work
- Spanish Press Coverage: 7/24/2015 Dan luz verde a demanda contra centro de detencion GEO en Aurora
- Spanish Press Coverage: Immigrants sue GEO detention center