This year, we continued our commitment and working with the Webb County, TX Commissioners Court and awarding $25,000 in scholarships to students from Laredo ISD, United ISD, Webb Consolidated ISD, St. Augustine High School, Harmony School of Excellence and Hector…
In April 2021, the GEO Group presented the GEO Game Changer Award to Arizona’s Dakota Jones. The GEO Game Changer Award honors individuals who are committed to changing behavior and changing lives. Dakota Jones told us he had one goal:…
In honor of Memorial Day, we worked in coordination with the Jerry Ambrose Veterans Council and provided Richard, a homeless Vietnam veteran, with a new home. It was truly a hands-on task as our staff and inmates from our vocational…
Kourtney Stafford, our Idaho Transitional Housing Manager, conducted an interview on the Victory Over Sin radio show. She did an excellent job informing Idahoans about our work in the state to standardize sober housing provider care and educate returning citizens…
Last month, Idaho Governor Brad Little visited the recently-opened New Connection and Intervention Station in Boise, a reentry facility managed by GEO Care. He participated in a group discussion with participants in the reentry program to learn more about their…
Today, The GEO Group issued a statement about VICE News refusing to include extensive information provided by our company in a so-called ‘documentary’ on government contractors in corrections and immigration services, which aired on Showtime on Sunday, April 11, 2021:…
Derrick Schofield, Executive Vice President of Continuum of Care and Reentry for The GEO Group, Inc., highlights how The GEO Group supports Florida’s correctional system by improving quality of life for inmates and reducing recidivism rates in a recent op-ed…
An op-ed published in Inside Sources from journalist Randall Bloomquist highlights how President Biden’s executive order on the elimination of private prisons fails to establish a solid plan in improving correctional programming across the U.S. While President Biden’s intentions to…
By Elmo Golden – Inside Sources My name is Elmo Golden, and I live in Tampa. But for 17 years, my home was the GEO Group’s correctional facility in South Bay, Florida. I’ve been out for almost two years now. I’m…