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Supreme Court intervenes in case where private ICE contractor forced detainees to clean common areas

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to shield a major private prison company from a lawsuit alleging immigration detainees in Colorado were forced to work for little or no pay.In a unanimous procedural ruling, the justices rejected an appeal from the Florida-based GEO Group, which sought to quickly overturn a lower court decision allowing the case to proceed.The ruling does not decide the merits of the lawsuit but clears the way for it to continue. If GEO Group loses the case, it can file its appeal then.The lawsuit, first filed in 2014, alleges that detainees at a facility in Aurora were r...

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