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Court rejects GEO Group’s effort to reduce settlement won by immigrants forced to work for $1 a day

There are few greater pleasures in life than watching GEO Group continue to lose in court. The private prison profiteer had sought to greatly reduce, and even throw out, the millions of dollars a …

Sat Dec 11, 2021

Private prison profiteer GEO Group has another bad day in court, and that's a good thing

Private prison profiteer GEO Group has had yet another bad day in court. U.S. District Judge Robert Bryan ruled it must pay the state of Washington nearly $6 million “in unjust enrichment gained” …

Wed Nov 3, 2021

'Years of work on the ground made this happen': Immigrants finally moved from notorious ICE facility

Immigrants are no longer being detained at the notorious Georgia facility currently the focus of a federal investigation for medical abuses against detained women. While Department of Homeland …

Wed Sep 8, 2021

ICE and private prison company GEO Group continue to endanger immigrants through use of pesticides

Both private prison profiteer GEO Group and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continue to endanger the lives of detained immigrants through the irresponsible use of pesticides. The Counter …

Fri Aug 13, 2021