Legal Opinion
Barrientos v. Corecivic, Inc.
District Court, M.D. Georgia
Decided August 17, 2018No. CASE NO. 4:18-CV-70 (CDL)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLAY D. LAND, CHIEF U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE
Stewart Detention Center ("Stewart") is an immigration detention facility in Stewart County, Georgia operated by CoreCivic, Inc. Plaintiffs Wilhen Barrientos, Margarito Velazquez-Galicia, and Shoaib Ahmed are current and former Stewart detainees. They bring this class action, asserting claims against CoreCivic under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act ("TVPA"), as amended, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1589, 1594 - 95, and under Georgia law. They allege that CoreCivic operates a "deprivation scheme" in which it forces detainees to work through threats of…
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