Mealey's (March 24, 2022, 12:47 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Federal immigration detainees involved in The GEO Group Inc.’s voluntary work program are not owed minimum wages as determined in a $17 million class jury verdict as Washington law does not require that result and GEO Group is entitled to derivative sovereign immunity, the for-profit company that has owned and operated the detention facility since 2005 argues in its appellant brief filed March 21 in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....