GEO Group Settles Aurora Forced-Labor Lawsuit the Day Trial Was Set to Begin

GEO Group settled Menocal v. GEO, the forced-labor lawsuit brought by former detainees at its Aurora ICE Processing Center, on November 2, the day trial was to begin in federal court in Denver. The terms were not disclosed. The suit, filed in 2014, alleged that six randomly chosen detainees per housing unit had to clean or face solitary confinement, and that GEO unjustly enriched itself through a “voluntary work program” paying $1 a day.