Mealey's (November 17, 2021, 9:26 AM EST) -- TACOMA, Wash. — A class of immigration detainees awarded more than $17 million by a federal jury in October on claims that The GEO Group Inc.’s voluntary work program failed to pay them minimum wage filed a response on Nov. 15 in a federal court in Washington to GEO’s motion to stay, opposing it only to the extent that it sought to stay an injunction while GEO filed a response the same day arguing that the class is not entitled to prejudgment interest....