The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving private prison operator GEO Group, which seeks to appeal a lower court's decision denying it governmental immunity in a class action lawsuit alleging forced labor at an immigration detention center in Aurora, Colorado.
The lawsuit, originally filed in 2014, claims that GEO violated federal anti-trafficking laws by threatening detainees with solitary confinement if they refused to work for $1 per day.
