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10 Aug 2007, 7:28 am
So let's get this straight: Just a week ago the Director of the Idaho Department of Corrections visited the Geo Group private prison facility in Del Rio and pronounced it a "pleasant surprise" compared to what he'd expected. [read post]
4 Mar 2013, 10:56 am
On February 20, a user named Abraham Cohen rewrote the page, replacing the "Controversies" section (which previously described deaths, denials of medical care, and prisoner uprisings at GEO prisons) with quotes from GEO's annual report, and rewriting the first paragraph of the article to describe GEO as "the world's leading provider of correctional, detention, and community reentry services." [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 7:49 am
An other-than-serious violation is one that has a direct relationship to job safety and health, but probably would not cause death or serious physical harm.The GEO Group Inc. is a correctional and detention organization with approximately 80,000 beds and 116 facilities located in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and South Africa. [read post]
25 Aug 2012, 10:03 am
First, the media seems to have finally caught on to a trend this blog prophesied six years ago in a post titled "The Coming Immigration Detention Boom. [read post]
26 Mar 2014, 5:30 am
Department of Labor that requires the company to implement comprehensive procedures and policies to better safeguard its employees from the hazards of workplace violence in every correctional and adult detention facility that it manages in the nation. [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 4:58 am
The rest are housed at eight centers operated by the immigration agency and seven private facilities run by companies such as the Corrections Corp. of America and the GEO Group.While Wall Street sees profit in the policy, at least for private prison vendors, reliance on private contractors brings with it its own problems, starting with expensive lawsuits resulting from systemic abuse. [read post]
3 Oct 2016, 7:15 am
And most of DHS’s contracts are with the same three private prison companies that the Justice Department condemned in its report — Corrections Corporation of America, GEO Group, and the Management and Training Corporation. [read post]
13 Nov 2011, 8:10 am
"The report also documents the impact of expanded federal immigration detention practices which has been a hobby horse of this blog for many years. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 10:30 am
For example, at one GEO-run immigration detention facility in Colorado, Evalin Ali-Mandza, a 46-year-old immigrant from Gabon, died of a heart attack after medical staff waited nearly an hour to call an ambulance. [read post]
8 Apr 2020, 8:11 am
He was released on March 26 from the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center, a private facility run by the GEO Group in Washington, following a suit filed by the ACLU and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. [read post]
15 Aug 2014, 5:26 am
Don Hutto is the site of a protest24-year-old immigrant dies after being held at GEO Group detention center in LaredoInvestigation underway in Diboll roof collapseFamily detention will return to Texas at the Karnes Detention Center, southeast of San AntonioRep. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 10:00 am
On April 13, private prison company GEO Group announced its first new contract to detain immigrants under the Trump administration: a 1,000-bed detention center that will be built in Conroe, Texas, just north of Houston and next door to an existing GEO Group detention center. [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 10:00 am
The news has already jolted prison profiteers: In the wake of the announcement, the stock prices of private prison giants Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group dropped precipitously. [read post]
28 May 2014, 11:30 am
That “convict lease” system was the historical antecedent to the modern private prison industry – and to the ICE detainee labor program profiled in the Times this week, which helps make immigration detention profitable for the private prison companies that run most detention facilities, like the Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 2:59 pm
Today CCA and the GEO Group are the nation’s “largest private prison companies. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 8:22 am
“I think I started at GEO, our stock price … got down to $12.50. [read post]
12 Aug 2007, 3:19 pm
By e-mail from Grits for Breakfast, your Texas-based source for Idaho corrections news: "Mysterious illness" afflicting inmates at private Del Rio prison that Idaho corrections director called a "pleasant surprise"So let's get this straight: Just a week ago the Director of the Idaho Department of Corrections visited the Geo Group private prison facility in Del Rio and pronounced it a "pleasant surprise" compared to what he'd… [read post]
11 Dec 2010, 4:26 am
California’s contract with GEO is worth a reported 60-million per year to the private detention management services company. [read post]
11 Dec 2010, 4:45 am
California’s contract with GEO is worth a reported 60-million per year to the private detention management services company. [read post]
22 Apr 2013, 2:40 pm
The two largest and most influential prison companies in the United States are the GEO Group (formerly part of Wackenhut) and Corrections Corporation of America (“CCA”). [read post]
