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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