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29 Mar 2012, 10:27 am by Suzanne Ito
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22 Aug 2016, 3:00 am by Jon Katz
The two largest private prison corporations — Corrections Corp of America and Geo Group Inc — did such a great job at responding to the Obama Administration’s policy shift, that the price of their publicly traded shares rebounded subsequent to dropping by one-third after the administration’s announcement. [read post]
19 Nov 2008, 12:58 pm
The Federal Bureau of Prisons and several state governments have sent thousands of inmates in recent months to prisons and detention centers run by Corrections Corp. of America, Geo Group Inc. and other private operators, as a crackdown on illegal immigration, a lengthening of mandatory sentences for certain crimes and other factors have overcrowded many government facilities. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 3:42 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
"The contract change affects 116 CEC positions at four prison units: Glossbrenner, the Halbert Unit in Burnet, the Kyle Correctional Center near Austin and the Sayle Unit near Breckenridge. [read post]
30 Jun 2012, 3:21 am by SHG
From the American Independent: The detention and treatment of sex offenders represents a growing business opportunity for GEO and its competitors, who hope to score lucrative contracts from state officials looking to keep predators off the streets. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 7:21 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Prosecuting non-criminal migrants themselves opens up such a vast new pool of incarceration possibilities that I won't be surprised to see stocks at Geo Group (GEO) and Corrections Corporation of America (CXW) jump in response.As a middle-aged man, from a purely selfish perspective, I want as many immigrants as possible here, low-waged and high, all legal, amnestied, documented, and paying into social security and Medicare, preferably, if only so there will be enough… [read post]
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]
12 Jul 2016, 8:12 am by AWoog
Bob: Well, and this is a trend that starts in the 1980s, right, where see the birth of for-profit prison corporations, notably Corrections Corporation of America and the GEO Group, which used to be called Wackenhut Corrections Corporation. [read post]
13 Jun 2018, 10:20 am by John Floyd
  The federal Bureau of Prisons currently has roughly 22,000 of its inmates housed in 12 private prisons owned and operated by three corporations: Management and Training Corporation, the GEO Group and CoreCivic, once known as Corrections Corporation of America. [read post]
28 Aug 2009, 9:23 pm
  A Texas court, earlier this year,  upheld $42.5 million in punitive damages against a private prison GEO Group Inc., formerly named Wackenhut, a multinational corrections corporation for the "horrific and gruesome death" of inmate Gregorio De La Rosa Jr. in 2001. [read post]
24 Feb 2012, 1:33 pm by Rekha Arulanantham
Private Prison Divestment Earlier this year, the United Methodist Church Board of Pension and Health Benefits withdrew all of its investments from companies that draw more than 10 percent of their profits from private prisons, including almost $1 million in stocks from the nation’s two largest private prison companies, Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group. [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 11:18 pm
The agency has hired 870 juvenile corrections officers since September 2006 to October 2007. [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]
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]
9 Mar 2012, 2:17 pm by Suzanne Ito
 The decision is also an indictment of private prisons: the decree will require juveniles to be transferred out of a hyper-violent GEO Group-run facility. [read post]
12 Dec 2020, 2:23 pm by John Floyd
If a person is arrested, regardless of the offense, “for-profit” jails need them to remain detained because their continued detention translates into more profit. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 7:49 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
Photo: State Department Of Corrections" SeattlePI.com on February 26, 2012 released the following: "Classified surveillance conducted prior to arrest By LEVI PULKKINEN Federal authorities with a secret warrant were intercepting phone calls related to a planned terrorist attack on a South Seattle military induction center well before the alleged plotters were arrested. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 7:49 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
Photo: State Department Of Corrections" SeattlePI.com on February 26, 2012 released the following: "Classified surveillance conducted prior to arrest By LEVI PULKKINEN Federal authorities with a secret warrant were intercepting phone calls related to a planned terrorist attack on a South Seattle military induction center well before the alleged plotters were arrested. [read post]