Wackenhut Corrections

At that time, her husband, Michael Figenshaw, owned stock in the Corrections Corporation of America and Wackenhut Corrections Corporation as part of his retirement account. Now known as CoreCivic and GEO Group, respectively, these are the country's largest prison companies, operating nearly 150 ...

A separate arm called Wackenhut Corrections was formed in 1984 to tap into the growing world of private-prison services; it landed its first federal contract three years later to manage a processing center for federal immigration detainees. In the decade that followed, the company became publicly traded as ...

Allen was originally managed by Wackenhut Corrections Corp, which in 2003 changed its name to the GEO Group. A civil rights law firm, the MacArthur Justice Center, this week sued the warden of the Allen prison for failing to respond to a public-records request for information on inmates held in solitary ...

Including the Liberty County jail, GEO Group has 25 facilities in Texas. Among them is the 3,532-bed federal prison in Big Spring. The company began in 1984 as Wackenhut Corrections Corporation, founded by current Chairman and CEO George C. Zoley. GEO acquired Correctional Services Corporation ...

In 1988, Wackenhut named Zoley president of Wackenhut Corrections Corp., which later spun off into its own publicly traded company. ... After Danish security firm Group 4 Falck bought Wackenhut Corp. in 2002, Wackenhut Corrections changed names — to GEO Group - and moved its head office to Boca.

The facility was built in 1998 by Wackenhut Corrections Corp. as a prison for juvenile offenders. It was previously owned and operated by the state, but was closed in 2005 as a cost-cutting measure. In his letter, Ryan said this closure "is expected to be permanent." When the company announced initially ...

GEO Group, which changed its name from Wackenhut Corrections Corp. in 2003, operates 16 facilities for the federal government that are labeled detention centers, according to its 2015 annual report, the most recent available. It previously ran prisons in Mississippi that faced federal scrutiny about ...

The North Lake Correctional Facility was built in the 1990s by the Wackenhut Corrections Co. (which has since become the GEO Group) for young offenders. But the prison was shuttered in 2005 and remained empty until the Vermont inmates arrived, save for a brief period in 2011 when inmates from ...

The Guadalupe Correctional Facility—a prison run by Wackenhut Corrections Corporation—opened in 1999 under Johnson's governorship and soon became the site of rampant violence; a riot involving nearly 300 prisoners resulted in the death of a prison guard that same year. Nine months before the riot, ...