Posted on 10/31/2021 8:22:16 AM PDT by aimhigh
A federal jury has determined that The GEO Group must pay nearly $17.3 million to immigration detainees who were paid $1 a day to perform tasks such as cooking and cleaning at the company’s for-profit detention center in Washington. . . . .
GEO maintained that the detainees were not employees under the Washington Minimum Wage Act. Even if they were, the company said, it would be unlawfully discriminatory for Washington to require GEO to pay them minimum wage — now $13.69 an hour — when the state doesn’t pay minimum wage to inmates who work at its own prisons or other detention facilities. . . .
The law says residents of “a state, county, or municipal” detention facility are not entitled to minimum wage for work they perform.
The detention center, now known as the Northwest ICE Processing Center, didn’t fit that exemption because it’s a private, for-profit facility, not a “state, county or municipal” one, attorneys for the state and for the detainees argued.
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This is how they’ll spread the wealth to these ‘immigrant detainees’?
Let’s see an accounting list of the pay outs, how much and to who.
If I’m the ceo then I open the doors.
I am speechless.
Then the same is true if they are not housed in a facility in the jurisdiction in which they committed the crime. Sending an inmate to a facility out of the jurisdiction is to contract another for services. Put another way, were Washington to send a prisoner to a facility out of state because it had better security or whatever, the host facility is not acting within their jurisdiction but instead are acting as a contract service to house that convict, just like a private facility does. The fact that it is a government facility should not matter as it is not a facility with legal authority over that prisoner.
Send the tab to the jurors. Take every cent they own.
Take a deep breath. It will only get worse.
this will be appealed
detainees and families were housed, feed, provided with utilities, all of which were “part of the deal”
clearly the Democrat-appointed judge wants to bankrupt the company because it’s a private company. He wants to reduce us all to vagabonds so we have to choice but to give in to the almighty state
hunger has always been a tool of oppression for communists
He can always go to work for Nike!
“This is how they’ll spread the wealth to these ‘immigrant detainees’?”
Actually this is how they kill “for profit” companies and the free enterprise system by forcing higher costs on “for profit” companies. A center run by a leftwing non-profit social justice organization would not have been penalized. The distinction is “for profit”, i.e. free enterprise, and “non profit” i.e. socialism.
Going forward we will see more of this. “Non-profits” allied with big government, will be competing with for profit business. The non-profit operations will be government subsidized (free startup capital) and will have lower operating costs ( i.e. no taxes and lower regulation) because those costs will be directly subsidized or the non-profit will have special rules to pay employees less than a for profit as demonstrated in the story.
There’s your systemic racism by white leftists on full display.
The slaves under government run prisons do not get minimum wage. But the hispanics in the private prisons DO.
How much do States pay inmates for work?
Or, how for-profits pay their way to be in ‘the club’.
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Sounds like jury duty pay.
Forced service.
About $13/day pay.
What happened to minimum wage ($15/hr?) that the govt forces everyone else to pay?
Will that pay out to illegals be on top of the proposed $450K per person?
If they are here illegally, they are under the Executive Branch State Dept as foreign citizens, and it is illegal to aid (give wages to) and abet illegal aliens.
Immigrants will have a visa to be here.
This is a gift. Private prisons are a bad idea. They add an economic incentive to increase incarceration.
Incarceration and prisons sound good when we’re talking about violent crimes such as rape, robbery, and murder. It doesn’t sound so good when “violent” crime is redefined to include those who protest or refuse to obey a lockdown. E.g. Australia.
This is going to have a tidal wave of impact. Every prison, public or private, pays inmates the same price for work. This means everyone can sue, and I mean everyone.
“Life under Bidens Federal Judges”
These migrant detention centers spend millions on lobbying. Paul Ryan, Rubio were big recipients.. there’s big $ in open borders
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