and its subsidiaries engage in the development and management of privatized correctional, detention, and mental health services facilities.
The company operates various correctional and detention facilities that include immigration detention centers, minimum security detention centers, and mental health facilities, as well as maximum, medium, and minimum security prisons.
Its correctional and detention management services involve the provision of security, administrative, rehabilitation, education, health, and food services, primarily at adult male correctional and detention facilities.
The company’s mental health facilities management services primarily involve the provision of acute mental health and related administrative services to mentally ill patients that have been placed under public sector supervision and care.
It also develops new facilities based on contract awards.
As of January 2, 2005, the company operated 43 correctional, detention, and mental health facilities and had approximately 35,266 beds under management.
GEO Group primarily offers its services to governmental agencies responsible for local, state, and federal correctional facilities in the United States and governmental agencies responsible for correctional facilities in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Other primary customers include local agencies in the U.
S. responsible for mental health facilities, and other foreign governmental agencies.
The company was founded in 1984 and was formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections Corporation.
It changed its name to The GEO Group, Inc.
in 2003.
Geo Group is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.
