GEO Group, Inc is a publicly traded C corporation that invests in private prisons and mental health facilities in North America, Australia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
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27 Facts About GEO Group
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GEO Group has developed several programs to reduce recidivism by assisting prisoners in returning to civilian life by providing therapy, life skills courses, job training, and housing assistance.
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GEO Group sold CSC's juvenile services division to James Slattery, CSC's former CEO, for $3.
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In February 2011, GEO Group acquired BI Incorporated, provider of electronic offender-tracking equipment and services, founded in 1978 and based in Boulder, Colorado, for $415 million.
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In 2015, GEO Group launched its Continuum of Care program to assist prisoners in returning to society.
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In 2018, GEO Group entered into a collaboration with the National Federation of Federal Employees called Reentry Success DC, designed to enhance "GEO Group's pre- and post-release services by connecting returning citizens to gainful employment".
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When ICE had renewed its contract for ten years in 2015, GEO Group estimated the center would receive $57 million each year, operating at full capacity.
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Internationally, in 2010, GEO Group operated a total of another 10 facilities in Australia, England, South Africa, and Cuba.
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GEO Group is contracted to the deportation of migrants, operating the Migrant Operations Center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from 2006 to 2012.
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GEO Group denied claims of separating families or housing unaccompanied minors,.
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International services segment primarily consists of GEO Group's privatized corrections and detention operations in South Africa, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
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GEO Group said that the donation was made by a subsidiary, GEO Corrections Holdings Inc, which has no contracts with any governmental agency, rather than directly from GEO Group itself.
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GEO Group operated the Parklea prison from 2009 to 2018, when the government ended the contract and excluded GEO Group from bidding on the new contract, while allowing industry competitors to do so.
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GEO Group has developed several programs to reduce recidivism by assisting prisoners in returning to civilian life.
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In 2015, GEO Group launched its Continuum of Care program, which "uses cognitive behavioral treatment — an approach based on the idea that you can change a person's behavior by changing how they think and feel — to prepare inmates for life after prison".
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In 2018, GEO Group entered into a collaboration with the National Federation of Federal Employees called Reentry Success DC, designed to enhance "GEO Group's pre- and post-release services by connecting returning citizens to gainful employment".
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In other philanthropic work, beginning in 2007, GEO Group annually awarded scholarships to students in Webb County, Texas, in support of their efforts to attend college.
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In return, the GEO Group received naming rights to the university's football stadium.
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Public relations firm Edelman supported GEO Group and was characterized by one source as helping in "laundering the reputation of private US concentration camps" in July 2019.
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In 2009, GEO Group appealed the court's decision; the appeals court reduced the damages to $42.
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Between 2005 and 2009, at least eight people died at the GEO Group-operated George W Hill Correctional Facility, Pennsylvania's only privately-run jail.
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In 2007, the Texas Youth Commission fired seven employees responsible for monitoring prison conditions after discovering that the GEO Group-run Coke County Juvenile Justice Center had "deplorable conditions".
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The settlement required the state to end its contract with GEO Group, and put operations at the facility under a federal court monitor.
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In September 2012, U S Congressman Ted Deutch of Pompano Beach wrote a letter to ICE regarding the contract under which GEO operates the facility, requesting a case-by-case investigation.
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GEO Group was imprisoned at the Aurora contract facility, where he died 16 days later from cardiac arrest.
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An investigation of Mandza's death found GEO Group employees did not know how to use an EKG machine and procrastinated in calling an ambulance.
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GEO Group was among the for-profit prison management companies named in this suit.
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