Corporation · est. 1984
The GEO Group
The other major for-profit prison and detention operator in the convict-leasing-to-private-prison line.
← Follow the MoneyFormed 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
The web
Connections to other moments, systems, and investigations — the links rarely drawn together.
- profited from·ThreadMass Incarceration
GEO Group profits from prisons and detention labor.
- builds on·ThreadConvict Leasing & Debt Peonage
For-profit detention is the heir of convict leasing.