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Immigration detention is a booming business in the U.S., mostly run by private, for-profit contractors. A new bill in Congress aims to phase out these private facilities, including the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. “One thing I am 100 percent confident of is that there is a cheaper, more humane [...]

Sept. 20, 2017 AG Ferguson sues operator of the Northwest Detention Center for wage violations Multi-billion dollar company pays detainees in snacks or $1 per day for labor TACOMA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced a lawsuit against The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO), the second-largest private prison provider in [...]

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program freed hundreds of thousands of young people from the fear of being deported to countries which many of them don’t remember and where they would be in danger. It also gave them the ability to work legally and get an education. I [...]