Geo Group
| The GEO Group, Inc.
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| legal form | Inc. |
| ISIN | US36162J1060 |
| founding | 1984 (as Wackenhut Corrections (WCC)) |
| Seat |
Boca Raton , FL , United States
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| management | George C. Zoley (Chairman & CEO) |
| Number of employees | 22,000 |
| sales | 2.33 bn dollars |
| Branch | Prison industry |
| Website | www.geogroup.com |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
GEO Group is an American company based in Boca Raton , Florida that specializes in the operation and management of private prisons and mental health facilities.
The company operates in the United States, Canada , the United Kingdom and South Africa and currently operates over 118 facilities worldwide. In these institutions around 81,000 inmates are currently cared for by over 17,000 employees. The company was founded in 1984 and, along with the Management and Training Corporation and CoreCivic , is one of the largest American service providers in the prison industry . In 2010, GEO acquired competitor Cornell Companies , which was one of the largest prison operators in the United States with sales of around $ 400 million.
Web links
literature
- Reinhard Berkau, Irene Stratenwerth. Me versus America: A German lawyer in the clutches of the US judiciary. Rowohlt, 2010 ISBN 3-499-62654-3
- Bryan Stevenson. Without mercy: police violence and arbitrariness in the United States. Piper, 2015. ISBN 3-492-05722-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geo Group: SEC-Filing Form 10-K , accessed on May 12, 2019
- ↑ businesswire.com: The GEO Group and Cornell Companies Announce $ 685 Million Merger , accessed May 12, 2019