Professor Jacqueline Stevens | Photo courtesy of polisci.northwestern.edu
How do private prison firms force individuals in custody under immigration laws to work for $1 per day or no pay at all? What effect could a Colorado federal court decision to allow immigrants to sue GEO prison firm in Aurora, Colorado, have on this issue?
On Wednesday, March 22, the Political Science Department and the Center for Values and Social Policy in the Department of Philosophy are co-sponsoring a public talk by Professor Jackie Stevens titled "One Dollar Per Day: The Slaving Wages of Immigration Detention."
Stevens, a professor of political science at Northwestern University (NU), will discuss how private prisons effectively force those detained under immigration laws to work at slave wages, as well as explain the labor and other laws these actions violate.
She also will discuss a recent Colorado federal court decision allowing immigrants to sue The GEO Group prison firm in Aurora. She is coming to Colorado as part of her ongoing lawsuit against ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) regarding its exploitation of detainee labor at the GEO Aurora ICE processing center, officially named the Denver Contract Detention Facility.
What: "One Dollar Per Day: The Slaving Wages of Immigration Detention" with Jackie Stevens
When: Wednesday, March 22, 5:30 p.m.
Where: Hellems Arts and Sciences, room 199
Visit The Washington Post online to read more about the lawsuit and her work.
The professor, who also is the director of the Deportation Research Clinic at the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at NU, has been a recent guest on Charlie Rose, NPR's The Takeaway and To the Point. Stevens received her PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993.
This talk is open to the general public and will be accessible to undergraduates and nonspecialists.
