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Exec with GEO Group, which Operates Immigration Detention Facilities, Intimidates Immigrant In-Law
Loaded on March 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2012, page 16
Thomas M. Wierdsma is the Senior Vice President for Project Development at The GEO Group, Inc., a Boca Raton, Florida-based company that, according to its 2010 annual report, operates “a broad range of correctional and detention facilities including ... prisons, immigration detention centers, minimum security detention centers and mental health ...
Filed under:
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Contractor Misconduct,
International,
Immigration.
Locations:
Colorado,
Florida,
United States of America.
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