Detainees win historic ruling on minimum wage

GENE JOHNSON The Associated Press, Seattle Times

In an historic ruling, a US federal jury has determined that The GEO Group must pay minimum wage — rather than $1 a day — to immigration detainees who perform tasks like cooking and cleaning at its for-profit detention center in Washington state. This was achieved through hard campaigning inclusing by La Resistencia that has been demanding to close the North West Detention Center near Tacoma.