Detainees win historic ruling on minimum wage
GENE JOHNSON The Associated Press, Seattle Times
![By Gene, Johnson, Seattle Times](https://paydaymensnetwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Minimum-wage-prisoner-large.jpg)
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.