Lawyers for a private, for-profit immigration detention center were in a federal appeals court Thursday trying to scuttle a lawsuit claiming detainees were forced to work for a few dollars a day as kitchen and maintenance help and punished if they balked, in violation of a federal law barring coerced labor.

The question before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is whether a prohibition on forced labor in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act applies to private immigration facilities such as those operated by defendant CoreCivic, which operates the Stewart Detention Center in Georgia.

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