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DISABILITY RIGHTS
United States v. Rhode Island and City of Providence

1:13-cv-00442 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: June 13, 2013

On June 13, 2013, the Disability Rights Section of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (“United States”) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island against the State of Rhode Island (“State”) and City of Providence, Rhode Island (“City”) (including the Providence Public School Department) under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12131-12134, as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 5…
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

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 defendant was the GEO Group, Inc., a for-profit corporation that operated the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC). Washington alleged two causes of action. First, they claimed defendant’s policy of paying immigrant detainees only $1 per day violated the Washington Minimum Wage Act (MWA), which set the mi…
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

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 Judge Robert J. Bryan. The plaintiff sued The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO), the for-profit corporation that operated the detention center, under state law, claiming that GEO’s policy of paying immigrant detainees involved in the federal Voluntary Work Program only $1 per day for their labor violated the Washi…
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 D. Land. The plaintiffs sued CoreCivic, Inc., a private prison corporation that owned and operated the Stewart Detention Center (“Stewart”), under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1589, 1594, and 1595. The plaintiffs, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center and pri…
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

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. District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiff sued GEO Group (GEO), a private company that owned and operated the Adelanto Facility for profit, under the Trafficking Victim Protection Act and California Minimum Wage Law. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, sought mone…
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 counsel, sued the private prison company CoreCivic, Inc. under the Federal Trafficking in Victims Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1589 (the “TPVA”). The plaintiff claimed that civil immigration detainees had been forced to work for 1-2 dollars a day or no wages under threats including solitary confinement an…
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

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 sued CoreCivic, Inc. under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and state law. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, sought declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief. The plaintiffs alleged that CoreCivic had a practice of paying detainees at the Otay Mesa Detention Center only o…
JAIL CONDITIONS
Ruelas v. County of Alameda

4:19-cv-07637 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2019

This lawsuit concerns individuals incarcerated in Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, CA, who were allegedly forced to provide uncompensated labor for Aramark Correctional Services, LLC. When this suit was filed, Santa Rita Jail held individuals awaiting trial, individuals convicted of a crime awaiting sentencing, individuals in immigration detention, and individuals convicted of crimes serving county jail or state prison sentences. At the time of the lawsuit’s filing, Aramark Correctional Servi…
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

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. District Court for the Southern District of California. The plaintiffs sued CoreCivic, a multibillion-dollar corporation that owns and operates civil detention facilities across the United States, under the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act and California state law, including California's Minimum…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Nielson v. Shinn

2:20-cv-01182 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 15, 2020

This is a case challenging the constitutionality of private prisons in Arizona. On June 6, 2020, a plaintiff who was incarcerated by the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR), filed this class action suit against the ADCRR Director David Shinn in the US District Court of Arizona. The plaintiff sued the Department under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Represented by private counsel from the public interest organization Abolish Private Prisons, the plaintiff sought declaratory jud…