The Geo Group
Jose A. Medina
Professor
Cassandra Garrett
Monroe College of Criminal Justice
Fall 2015
Abstract
The research is concentrate on the GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) formally known as Wackenhut Corrections Corporations, founded by former FBI agent George R. Wackenhut. The GEO Group is a corporation that specializes in providing correctional, detention and community reentry services. For more than 30 years the GEO Group has profited billions of dollars from federal and state policies that have in concert increased incarceration and detention in the United States; half of the prisoners in the GEO Group’s privatized prisons are non-violent offenders for drug offences, the Geo Group have recently began expansion in immigration detention. …show more content…
The cost cutting business practices has cost more than millions of dollars in law suits that includes rape, murder and violations of their client’s human rights. The common critiques that for profit prisons faces are the industries goals of maximizing profits and not the traditional goal of the criminal justice system. Such as providing rehabilitations programs to reduce recidivism and educational programs to relieve the idleness of prisoners. The under cutting measures have created an atmosphere of violence that are due to the inadequate training, low pay and high turnover rates of the correctional staff and understaffing. LeTisha Tapia, while incarcerated in the Val Verde County Jail committed suicide shortly after she reported that she was raped and assaulted by male inmates who were housed in the same cell block. Ms. Tapia was also sexually humiliated by a GEO guard after she reported to the warden that guards allowed the inmates to have sex, Ms. Tapia’s family filed a civil lawsuit against the Geo Group and several of its guards, in march of 2007 the Geo Group reportedly settled with the Tapia’s family for 200,000 (Huges, 2006). The GEO Group, Inc. also settled allegations of sexual, physical, and mental abuse of female juveniles for $1.5 million dollars after several young women sued the Geo Group after they were allegedly sexually, physically, and mentally abused by employees of Geo Group owned and operated Coke County Juvenile Justice Center in Texas. The claims were settled in mediation for $1,500,000, according to an appeal filed to enjoin enforcement of the settlement agreement. (TOON v. WACKENHUT CORRECTIONS CORPORATION,
Jose A. Medina
Professor
Cassandra Garrett
Monroe College of Criminal Justice
Fall 2015
Abstract
The research is concentrate on the GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) formally known as Wackenhut Corrections Corporations, founded by former FBI agent George R. Wackenhut. The GEO Group is a corporation that specializes in providing correctional, detention and community reentry services. For more than 30 years the GEO Group has profited billions of dollars from federal and state policies that have in concert increased incarceration and detention in the United States; half of the prisoners in the GEO Group’s privatized prisons are non-violent offenders for drug offences, the Geo Group have recently began expansion in immigration detention. …show more content…
The cost cutting business practices has cost more than millions of dollars in law suits that includes rape, murder and violations of their client’s human rights. The common critiques that for profit prisons faces are the industries goals of maximizing profits and not the traditional goal of the criminal justice system. Such as providing rehabilitations programs to reduce recidivism and educational programs to relieve the idleness of prisoners. The under cutting measures have created an atmosphere of violence that are due to the inadequate training, low pay and high turnover rates of the correctional staff and understaffing. LeTisha Tapia, while incarcerated in the Val Verde County Jail committed suicide shortly after she reported that she was raped and assaulted by male inmates who were housed in the same cell block. Ms. Tapia was also sexually humiliated by a GEO guard after she reported to the warden that guards allowed the inmates to have sex, Ms. Tapia’s family filed a civil lawsuit against the Geo Group and several of its guards, in march of 2007 the Geo Group reportedly settled with the Tapia’s family for 200,000 (Huges, 2006). The GEO Group, Inc. also settled allegations of sexual, physical, and mental abuse of female juveniles for $1.5 million dollars after several young women sued the Geo Group after they were allegedly sexually, physically, and mentally abused by employees of Geo Group owned and operated Coke County Juvenile Justice Center in Texas. The claims were settled in mediation for $1,500,000, according to an appeal filed to enjoin enforcement of the settlement agreement. (TOON v. WACKENHUT CORRECTIONS CORPORATION,