A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that The GEO Group, a Florida-based private prison operator, must pay more than $23 million for paying working immigrant detainees at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma as little as $1 per day.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied The GEO Group's request to rehear the case or escalate it further, siding with lower courts that found the company violated Washington state minimum wage law.
