Washington state detention center owes detainees minimum wage

A federal jury determined that immigrant detainees at one of the country’s biggest for-profit detention centers should be getting minimum wage for the work they do inside the prison. The Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, currently pays detainees $1 — now they must increase that to $13 an hour. It’s a fight years in the making for immigrant rights advocates and current and former detainees — who would also qualify for back pay. The World’s Daisy Contreras has more.

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