Detention:
Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma tries to keep from paying higher wages to detained immigrants. A federal judge is considering whether to throw out two lawsuits, including one by the state of Washington, that seek to force one of the nation’s largest privately run immigration-detention centers to pay minimum wage, rather than $1 per day, for work done by detainees. “This is detention. It’s not a competitive work environment,” GEO attorney Joan Mell told the judge during arguments Monday.