Special Collection: Immigrant Detention Labor Issues

Common Area of the Stewart Detention Center in Georgia.

Common Area of the Stewart Detention Center in Georgia.

This special collection focuses on challenges to labor practices at immigrant detention centers across the country. Persons currently or formerly held in civil immigration detention centers sued either GEO Group or Core Civic, two private companies that operate prisons and detention centers.

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Owino v. CoreCivic

17-cv-01112 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: 2017

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ndambi v. CoreCivic

1:18-cv-03521 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Nov. 14, 2018

Closed Date: April 12, 2021

On November 14, 2018, immigrants detained at the Cibola County Correctional Center filed this putative class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. (Although the faci…

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Barrientos v. CoreCivic Inc.

4:18-cv-00070 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 17, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 27, 2023

On April 17, 2018, three current or former detained immigrants filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, where the case was assigned to Judge Clay…

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gonzalez v. CoreCivic

1:18-cv-00169 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 22, 2018

Closed Date: March 14, 2022

On February 22, 2018, a former civil immigration detainee filed a putative class action lawsuit in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas. The plaintiff, represented by private couns…

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gonzalez v. CoreCivic, Inc.

3:17-cv-02573 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 27, 2017

Case Ongoing

On December 27, 2017, five detainees in California's Otay Mesa Detention Center ("the Facility"), a for-profit civil immigration detention facility, filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. Distri…

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Novoa v. GEO Group

5:17-cv-02514 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Dec. 19, 2017

Case Ongoing

On December 19, 2017, an immigrant previously detained from 2012 through 2015 at the Adelanto Detention Center, a civil immigration detention facility, filed this putative class action in the U.S. Di…

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Chen v. GEO

3:17-cv-05769 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 26, 2017

Case Ongoing

On September 26, 2017, a former immigrant detainee of the Northwest Detention Center filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The case was assigned to Jud…

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Washington v. The GEO Group Inc.

3:17-cv-05806 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 20, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case addressed whether a Washington State minimum wage law applied to immigration detainees. The state of Washington filed suit in the Pierce County Superior Court on September 20, 2017. The def…

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Owino v. CoreCivic, Inc.

3:17-cv-01112 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: May 31, 2017

Case Ongoing

On May 31, 2017, former detainees at the Otay Mesa Detention Center filed this lawsuit as a putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The plaintiffs su…

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Menocal v. The GEO Group, Inc.

1:14-cv-02887 | U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Filed Date: Oct. 22, 2014

Case Ongoing

On October 22, 2014, current and former civil immigration detainees housed at the Aurora Detention Facility filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Th…

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