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Tenth Circuit upholds class certification of immigration detainees forced to labor
Loaded on April 16, 2018
by Matthew Clarke
Filed under:
Prison Labor,
Sanitation,
Immigration.
Locations:
Colorado,
District of Columbia,
United States of America.
On February 9, 2018, the Tenth Circuit court of appeals upheld the certification of two classes of immigration detainees who were forced by GEO Group to labor without pay or to "volunteer" to labor for $1 per day.
Nine immigration detainees held at the Aurora Detention Facility, a …
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