<P> In October 2015, the Geo Group renewed a ten - year contract with ICE . </P> <P> On August 18, 2016, the U.S. Justice Department announced that they would end privatization of federal prisons, however this would not affect detention centers of immigrants, which were 62% privately operated in 2014 compared to 8% of federal prisoners . Geo stocks declined sharply after the announcement . </P> <P> On September 20, 2017 WA State Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit against GEO Group, Inc., the private prison company that runs Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center (NWDC). The lawsuit alleges that GEO Group, Inc., the second - largest private prison provider in the country, has for years violated Washington State's minimum wage law, paying its workers $1 per day or in some instances, with snacks and extra food . "Let's be honest about what's going on," said Ferguson, speaking at a downtown Seattle news conference . "GEO has a captive population of vulnerable individuals who cannot easily advocate for themselves . This corporation is exploiting those workers for their own profits ." </P>

Who is the current warden of the northwest detention center ran by the geo group