Jury selection begins in detainees’ forced labor trial against ICE contractor

Source Scout · Courthouse News Service reports: A class of immigrants who were detained from 2004 to 2014 at the Denver Contract Detention Facility say the GEO Group forced them to work for $1 per day or face solitary confinement. DENVER (CN) — Selection for an advisory jury began Monday to aid a federal judge in determining whether the GEO Group violated federal law by requiring detainees at the Denver Contract Detention Facility to work for $1 per day while being held at the facility. The federal contractor for-profit GEO Group runs the facility in Aurora, Colorado, for U.S.

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