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GEO Group Buys Out Correctional Services Corporation
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2006, page 31
In November 2005, GEO Group, the second-largest private prison company in the U.S., finalized its purchase of the Sarasota, Florida-based Correctional Services Corporation (CSC) for $6 a share -- a total of $62 million in cash -- and the assumption of $124 million of CSC's debt. GEO had previously announced …
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Esmor/CSC,
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Financing,
Settlements,
Service,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
Location:
Florida.
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