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GEO Group Expands into Mental Health Facilities for Business Growth
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2008
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2008, page 16
by David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Drug Treatment/Rehab,
Civil Commitment.
Location:
United States of America.
Since 1984, the GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections) has focused on operating private prisons as its business model. It is now finding a more lucrative niche in privatizing mental health facilities and civil commitment centers for sexual predators. The company has been able to procure multiple ...
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