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

Supreme Court allows lawsuit against private prison company to proceed, rejecting GEO Group's immunity claim over alleged forced labor practices.

A sign marks the entrance to the Moshannon Valley Processing Center, a former prison repurposed as an immigration detention facility operated by the GEO Group under contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, on July 27, 2023. (Reuters/Quinn Glabicki/File Photo)

GEO has defended its labor program and argued that, as a federal contractor, it should be immune from such lawsuits because they were carrying out government instructions.

A surveillance camera sits outside of Delaney Hall, a 1,000-person detention center operated by GEO Group for ICE, in Newark, New Jersey, on May 10, 2025. (Reuters/Bing Guan/File Photo)

Similar lawsuits have been filed in other states. In Washington, a court previously ordered GEO to pay more than $23 million in a case involving detainee labor practices.

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The Colorado case will now continue in a lower court.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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