The notorious Guantanamo Bay prison has become synonymous with the dark prison of the world, but it reflects only the tip of the iceberg of the US prison system s trampling on laws and human rights - behind the shady scenes are violence, abuse, sexual assault, corruption, and many other atrocities.
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ICE Detention Co. Can t Limit Claims In $1 Daily Wages Trial
Law360 (May 27, 2021, 5:05 PM EDT) Private prison giant GEO Group Inc. can t invoke a Washington wage law s three-year statute of limitations to limit the state s case in a jury trial on allegations that it paid $1-a-day wages to immigrant detainees, a federal judge held Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Robert J. Bryan rejected GEO Group s attempt to bar the state of Washington from bringing any claims or evidence from before 2014 in the first phase of a trial set to start June 1 over allegedly illegal wages paid to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at its Northwest Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington.
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