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16 Mar 2016, 6:43 am by Joy Waltemath
The Geo Group, Inc. dba Arizona State Prison-Florence West and Central Arizona Correctional Facility, March 14, 2016, Callahan, C.). [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 2:59 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Correct Care Recovery Solutions also provides the treatment to the “residents” of the facility (formerly the Bill Clayton Detention Center and now known as the Texas Civil Commitment Center). [read post]
16 Nov 2015, 10:13 am by Jim Caton
The Future of Our Private Prisons by Jim Caton http://photos.gograph.com/thumbs/CSP/CSP992/k12902504.jpg Hillary Clinton’s recent vow to end privatized prisons and immigrant detention centers and her renunciation of contributions from firms such as GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America amount to yet another insult added to the fatal injuries long since sustained by American liberalism. [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 9:58 am by John Floyd
The top three private prison companies in this country—Corrections Corporation of America, The Geo Group, and Management and Training Corp. [read post]
18 Aug 2014, 1:18 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The Montgomery County Commissioners Court's on-again off-again love affair with private corrections just took an odd turn.Now, after recently selling a facility next door to their own jail to the GEO Group because they couldn't maintain the terms of the phony "nonprofit" created to facilitate the deal, word comes down the county supposedly must build a new jail or spend nearly as much (around $200 million) to renovate the old one, reported the Houston Chronicle… [read post]
15 Aug 2014, 5:26 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
15 Jul 2014, 12:50 pm by Dave Maass
He is an inmate of the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) and his family maintained the page on his behalf. [read post]
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]
26 Mar 2014, 5:30 am by Kori Shafer-Stack
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]
1 Mar 2014, 4:09 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Here are a number of private prison related items that deserve Grits readers' attention:Texas Prison Bidness: Geo's Karnes County Correctional Center found out-of-compliance for overcrowding, understaffingTexas Prison Bidness: Johnson County to foot bill for expanded LaSalle Southwest Immigration detention center? [read post]
25 Feb 2014, 8:17 am
Taft Perhaps the best example of competing, side-by-side cost studies comes from the evaluation of the federal facility in Taft, California, operated by The GEO Group. [read post]
9 Feb 2014, 5:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
 McNew thinks the GEO Group is a better financial bet than Corrections Corporation of America - perhaps because of recent sweetheart deals in its home state of Florida - but Grits would point out that GEO is much more laden with debt than its biggest competitor and faces the same long-term trends described above. [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 6:11 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Last month, GEO offered the county $35 million, but the county rejected that bid. [read post]
6 May 2013, 8:23 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Thirty years later, CCA's 67 prisons and detention centers no longer include hastily-converted motels, and CCA claims to run "the highest quality adult corrections company in the United States." [read post]
3 May 2013, 1:25 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Due to sustained opposition from student groups, faith groups, the ACLU, and other civil rights organizations, for-profit prison company GEO Group announced its decision to withdraw the $6 [read post]
22 Apr 2013, 2:40 pm by Fraud Fighters
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]
4 Mar 2013, 10:56 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
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]