Detainees who earned just $1 a day are owed $17 million in back pay, a jury orders

Detainees who earned just $1 a day are owed $17 million in back pay, a jury orders
A detainee worker moves a cart of trays containing chicken fajita meals during a 2019 media tour of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Tacoma, Wash.

A federal jury in Tacoma, Wash., found that private prison contractor, the GEO Group, underpaid detainees who provided menial services in the facility

(Image credit: Ted S. Warren/AP)



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