Private prison companies served with lawsuits over using detainee labor

[TygrBright]

via The Guardian, US Edition

Class action lawsuit brought by detainees in New Mexico accuses CoreCivic and Geo Group of violating minimum wage laws

For $0.50 or less per hour, detainees such as Mbah Emmanuel Abi and Desmond Ndambi, who have since been granted political asylum, cooked meals for their fellow inmates and worked in the facility library.

Their experience is not unique: for $1 a day – and sometimes less – migrants prepare meals, clean facilities and do laundry at privately run immigration detention centers across the country.

The practice has been compared to slave labor and has brought a pile of lawsuits to the doorsteps of the country’s two biggest private prison companies, CoreCivic and Geo Group, which in 2017 had a combined $4bn in revenue.

In a recently filed class-action lawsuit, Abi, Ndambi and one other man who fled Cameroon in 2017, brought wage theft claims against CoreCivic’s Cibola county correctional center in New Mexico.

I just can't even...

wearily,
Bright

[mucifer]

1. these corporations donated a lot of money to trump

[Thomas Hurt]

5. I imagine they are still drooling over the immigrant internment camps they are hoping for...

[malaise]

2. All private prisons should be shut down

On he one hand, they were set up to facilitate slave labor; on the other hand they are national security threats in more ways than one.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Oh you are so right on.

My last Career was with a multinational Service Corporation,and,all Divisions would receive the same Glossy Slick annual Report . The Private Prison portion was a total Brag about how much of the Corporate Balance Sheet was dependent on this division . And how all of our other divisions were integrated into the Prison Division.

When one read the footnotes,you fully understood how the CEO used his Political Influence with both State and Federal Agencies as a guaranteed income stream for this on going operation. And when that CEO sits on the Board of Directors of Bank of New York Mellon,what can go wrong.

You end up with Trump and a bottomless bag of money.

[pecosbob]

4. There are lots of giveaways to these companies in the new criminal justice 'reform' bill

[TwistOneUp]

6. All owned by GOP voters, 'natch.

Prisons, like health care, should ONLY be run by the government. Some things should never be privatized.