The GEO Group is a U.S.-based private corrections company that designs, builds, and operates privatized prisons, immigration detention centers, mental-health and substance-abuse treatment facilities, electronic monitoring programs, and community reentry services under contract to federal, state, local and international governments.
Advocates for policies that expand public–private contracting in corrections and detention, increased use of contracted immigration detention and electronic monitoring, funding for detention infrastructure and reentry and rehabilitation programs, and regulatory frameworks favorable to contracting with government law‑enforcement and immigration agencies.
Primarily funded by government contracts and fee‑for‑service payments from federal, state and local agencies (including immigration and corrections agencies), supplemented by revenue from services and capital markets/investor financing.
Subsidiaries and business units such as GEO Care and BI Incorporated (electronic monitoring); long‑time company executive and founder George C. Zoley is a high‑profile individual associated with the organization.
Private company (publicly traded corrections and detention contractor)
