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Fourth Circuit Holds CoreCivic Immigration Detainees in New Mexico Not “Employees” Under FLSA

Loaded on Dec. 1, 2021 published in Prison Legal News December, 2021, page 24
Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Detention - Generally. Location: New Mexico.

A panel of judges in the Fourth Circuit agreed with the dismissal of an appeal brought by former ICE detainees held by CoreCivic at their Cibola County Correctional Center in Milan, New Mexico. The ruling was released March 5, 2021 in a case first filed in 2019.

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