A federal lawsuit accuses jail officials of forcing detainees to do labor against their will and paying them nothing.
Aleksey Ruderman swept and mopped the floors of McHenry County jail, wiped tables, and cleaned the showers and the toilets — all against his will and without being paid a dime, he says.
Sheriff’s Chief James Popovits said deputies didn’t force the detainees to do anything; they worked of their own will.The federal suit is part of a wave of litigation nationwide claiming that immigrant detainees were made to work in violation of the, which prohibits labor compelled by force or physical restraint.
Labor behinds bars is common in the United States. The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, allows both as punishment for crime. But the 13th Amendment exception applies to those convicted of crimes. That’s why the recent spate of lawsuits alleging forced labor has focused instead on immigrant detainees, who generally are accused of civil violations, not crimes, and are awaiting a court ruling on whether they could stay in the United States legally or would face deportation.Since 2003, McHenry County had a contract to hold detainees for what is now U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
Six detainees are named as plaintiffs in the suit. Some have been released, some have returned to the countries they leftAleksey Ruderman near his Milwaukee home on April 25, 2022., which made it easier for some people in former parts of the Soviet Union to emigrate. Ruderman, the son of a political activist in Belarus, said he was trying to get away from antisemitic persecution by neo-Nazi and pro-Russian forces in his country.as she walked along a road at 2 a.m.
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