Design – Construction – Operations
GOLDEN VALLEY, Ariz. — Arizona Department of Corrections (DOC) officials received approval from a legislative committee in June to purchase the Arizona State Prison-Kingman, located in Golden Valley, from GEO Group of Boca Raton, Fla., for upwards of $137 million. GEO Group has a contract to operate the facility through 2023.
Read moreBOCA RATON, Fla. — The Geo Group of Boca Raton, Fla., announced on Dec. 30 that it has signed contracts with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for the continued management of both the Moshannon Valley Correctional Center in Phillipsburg, Pa., and for the reactivation of the Great Plains Correctional Facility in Hinton, Okla.
Read moreADELANTO, Calif. — Though Californians just passed Proposition 47, which is in part intended to reduce prison crowding, the community of Adelanto, Calif., is embracing more correctional construction. Facing potential bankruptcy, city council members on Nov. 20 tentatively approved construction of two new private prisons. The deal will reportedly introduce new revenue to the city through the creation of 1,000 new temporary and permanent employment opportunities and will add six new deputies to the city’s police force.
Read moreBOCA RATON, Fla. — On Feb. 1 the GEO Group assumed management of three Florida correctional facilities under a contract with the state’s Department of Management Services. The private correctional administrator will now operate the 985-bed Moore Haven Correctional Facility, the 985-bed Bay Correctional Facility in Panama City, and the 1,884-bed Graceville Correctional Facility.
Read moreBOULDER, Colo. — The California Department of Corrections and the Division of Adult Parole Operations has hired Geo Community Reentry Services, a division of Boca Raton, Fla.-based The Geo Group, to operate four intensive parolee reentry centers.
The centers, located in San Diego, Santa Ana, Pomona and French Camp, will serve more than 1,000 inmates annually.
Read moreWASHINGTON — The Institute for Defense & Government Advancement (IDGA) Prisons & Correctional Facilities Summit on Dec. 3-5, 2012, in Alexandria, Va., will showcase high-level government and private correctional executives, capability requirements and acquisition priorities for 2013 and beyond.
Read moreNew York — While public employees in the prison sector are sweating it out, hoping they don’t lose the perpetual game of budget bingo being played out across the country, the private prison industry that houses illegal immigrants has been flourishing.
Read moreBOCA RATON, Fla. — The Geo Group announced that it has received a letter from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation rescinding the previous notice of termination regarding Geo’s management contract for the 625-bed Golden State Correctional Facility in McFarland, Calif.
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