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Aurora ICE Detention Center
Jamie Jackson
Jamie Jackson worked for GEO Group,
the company that runs the notorious
Aurora ICE Detention Center
Jamie Jackson's employer managed the Aurora ICE Detention Center during the Trump Administration.
During Trump's Family Separation.
Get the facts...
GEO Group has operated Aurora’s ICE detention center since 1986. For four decades, this corporation has expanded its capacity, filled its beds, and profited from the people locked inside: our neighbors and community members.
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously refused to let GEO Group hide behind federal contractor immunity. The case was brought by Alejandro Menocal and fellow Aurora detainees who were forced to perform janitorial work for free or face 72 hours of solitary confinement. Others were paid $1 a day. The forced labor they endured began in 2014.
GEO Group’s defense: They were just following orders from ICE.
That lawsuit has been working its way through the courts for over a decade. During every one of those years — during the protests, the wrongful death lawsuits, the ACLU’s 2019 report exposing Aurora’s facility for “cashing in on cruelty,” the COVID-19 mismanagement that trapped sick people inside without masks or tests — Jamie Jackson was on GEO Group’s payroll.
Rep. Jamie Jackson was a GEO Group manager in Denver from 2014 through 2021. She started the same year Menocal was being forced to scrub floors for free in Aurora.
She was still there when TIME Magazine and the ACLU covered their abuses. She was still there when Aurora activists set up an encampment outside the facility.
She left in 2021; one year after the City of Denver ended its re-entry contracts with GEO Group...
... Jackson was appointed to the Colorado House of Representatives last year by a vacancy committee, not elected by voters. She was presented to House District 41 Democrats as a criminal justice activist. GEO Group’s lobbyists have since contributed to her 2026 campaign.
The primary election on June 30 is House District 41’s first real vote on this question: should a former GEO Group regional manager represent a community still fighting GEO Group in federal court?
Jackson now says she didn’t know how bad GEO was. Seven years as a rising regional manager, and she didn’t know. The forced labor lawsuit that started on her watch? She didn’t know. The wrongful deaths, the protest encampments, the national news coverage? She didn’t know. That claim isn’t credible. At best, it describes willful ignorance of the corporation she was helping run.
The Supreme Court just cleared the way for the case against GEO to proceed. The people who were harmed deserve a representative who was on their side, not on the payroll."
As City Council Member Alison Combs wrote in the Sentinel:
At this facility:
Forced labor
Solitary confinement
A man beaten for being gay
Another, dead from negligence
READ THE ACLU
REPORT HERE.
Under Jamie Jackson's watch.