The Northwest Detention Center is a privately run, federal detention center in Tacoma. (Nicole Jennings, KIRO Radio)
(Nicole Jennings, KIRO Radio)
The company in charge of operating a Tacoma ICE detention center will have to pay out $23.2 million, stemming from a lawsuit over the facility’s alleged unfair labor practices.
ICE offers rare tour of Tacoma immigration detention center
Nearly $6 million of that money will need to be surrendered by the GEO Group — which is contracted by ICE to run the facility — as “unjust enrichment.” Another $17.3 million will be paid to over 10,000 people detained there for back wages owed.
The lawsuit dates back
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