Corporation · est. 1984

The GEO Group

The other major for-profit prison and detention operator in the convict-leasing-to-private-prison line.

Formed as Wackenhut Corrections in 1984, the GEO Group runs prisons and immigration-detention centers and has been found liable for paying detained workers as little as a dollar a day — the modern face of profiting from captive labor.

Documentation

Websites·1

Website

GEO Group — corporate profile

AFSC Investigate

GEO Group's detention labor record.

The web

Connections to other moments, systems, and investigations — the links rarely drawn together.

profited from·Thread
Mass Incarceration
GEO Group profits from prisons and detention labor.
builds on·Thread
Convict Leasing & Debt Peonage
For-profit detention is the heir of convict leasing.