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GEO Group Acquires CEC in $360 Million Deal by In an all-cash transaction that closed on April 6, 2017, private prison firm the GEO Group, Inc. acquired New Jersey-based Community Education Centers (CEC), a for-profit reentry and treatment provider. GEO plans to integrate CEC into its existing business operations. The …
New Report Examines “Treatment Industrial Complex” by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna As public and legislative pressure builds to reduce the number of prisoners held in state and federal correctional facilities, the private prison industry has changed gears to offer rehabilitative and treatment services – a shift criticized in a …
Publication • May 8, 2017
Kinney County, Resolution Approving Request to Consent (GEO, CEC), 2017 RESOLUTION NO. 2017- O 'J..r RESOLUTION APPROVING REQUEST TO CONSENT/ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE BY THE GEO GROUP, INC. OF ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EXISTING CEC, INC. FACILITY OPERATION & MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTS WHEREAS, it has been made known to Kinney County, …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Escape is Latest Problem at Troubled Privately-run Texas Jail by Matthew Clarke In October 2015, Phillip Henry Freeman disappeared from the Liberty County Jail near Houston, Texas. He was recaptured living in a wooded area in Arkansas in late January 2016. His escape was the latest in a slew of …
Publication • January 9, 2017
Kinney County, Addendum to 2nd Agreement (GEO, CEC), 2017 ADDENDUM TO SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED FACILITY OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT (Kinney County Detention Center) This Addendum to Second Amended and Restated Facility Operation and Management Agreement (hereinafter "Addendum") is entered into by anµ between KINNEY COUNTY, TEXAS (hereinafter "County") arid …
Escapes and Crime at New Jersey's Privately-Run Halfway Houses by Matthew Clarke New Jersey has embarked on a grand experiment – shifting state prisoners from expensive state prisons into less expensive, privately-run halfway houses. The state prison system bas less than 25,000 beds while the around two dozen halfway houses …
Article • August 23, 2016
Hurricane Sandy Facilitates Mass Escape from New Jersey's Logan Hall by Matthew Clarke Hurricane Sandy and a lack of preparation or training for unusual weather helped prisoners at the notorious Logan Hall halfway house to run rampant, including a mass escape of fifteen prisoners. Although designated a "halfway house," Logan …
Report: How Private Prison Companies Cut Corners to Generate Profit by Derek Gilna Private prison companies like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group earn hundreds of millions of dollars each year, averaging between $2,771 and $3,366 in profit per prisoner based on 2014 data. According to In …
List of major for-profit prison services and companies U.S. FOR-PROFIT PRIVATIZED CORRECTIONAL SERVICES January 2017 – Not a full listing Facility Operations CoreCivic (Corrections Corp. of America) The GEO Group Management & Training Corp. Community Education Centers LaSalle Corrections Emerald Companies Medical / Mental Health Care Corizon Health (Beecken Petty …
Article • January 1, 2016 • from PLN January, 2016
Two Suicides at Privately-operated Pennsylvania Facility by Officials in Delaware County, Pennsylvania have been tight-lipped about the recent suicides of two prisoners at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility, fearing wrongful death lawsuits. On May 26, 2015, Janene Wallace, 35, hung herself using her bra while serving time for a …
Publication • July 27, 2015
Kinney County, 1st Amendment to 2nd Amended Agreement (GEO, CEC), 2015 FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED FACILITY OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT WHEREAS, on or about April 1, 2012, KINNEY COUNTY, TEXAS (hereafter "County") and COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTERS, INC., a Delaware Corporation d/b/a CEC Intl., in the State …
Publication • March 30, 2015
Kinney County, 2nd Addendum to 2nd Agreement (GEO, CEC), 2015 SECOND ADDENDUM TO THE SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED FACILITY OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT This Second Addendum to the parties Second Amended and Restated Facility Operation and Management Agreement (hereinafter "Second Addendum") is entered into by and between KINNEY COUNTY, TEXAS …
When Halfway Houses Pose Full-Time Problems by Derek Gilna When Halfway Houses Pose Full-Time Problems by Derek Gilna A recent interest among government officials in reducing prison populations as a way to cut costs, stemming from the 2008 Great Recession that resulted in significant budget deficits, has placed renewed emphasis …
Article • August 13, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014
Private Prison Contractor Not Subject to New Jersey’s Open Records Act by Private Prison Contractor Not Subject to New Jersey’s Open Records Act On October 12, 2012, a New Jersey state superior court held that Community Education Centers (CEC), a private prison contractor, was not required to disclose its records …
Administrators Fired at Privately-Run Texas Jail by Administrators Fired at Privately-Run Texas Jail The warden and head of security at the Liberty County Jail (LCJ) in Liberty, Texas have been fired in the wake of allegations that the chief of security sexually assaulted a female prisoner at the facility. The …
Publication • February 11, 2014
Kinney County, Addendum to 2nd Agreement (GEO, CEC), 2014 ADDENDUM TO THE SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED FACILITY OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT This Addendum to the parties Second . Amended and Restated Facility Operation and Management Agreement (hereinafter "Addendum") is entered into by and between KINNEY COUNTY, TEXAS (hereinafter 11 County11) …
Article • July 13, 2013
Thirteen CEC Employees Indicted for Smuggling at Texas Private Prison by Matthew Clarke By Matthew Clarke On January 30, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had arrested twelve guards and a cook who were employed by private prison company Community Education Centers (CEC) at the Ector County …
Publication • April 16, 2012
Kinney County, 2nd Amended Agreement (GEO, CEC), 2012 SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED FACILITY OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT This Second Amended and Restated Facility Operation and Management Agreement (hereinafter "Agreement") is entered into by and between KINNEY COUNTY, TEXAS (hereinafter "County") and COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTERS, INC., (hereinafter called "Operator") to become …
Article • August 15, 2011
Community Education Centers Acquires CiviGenics by In June, 2007, Roseland, New Jersey-based Community Education Centers, Inc, (CEC), the nation’s largest private provider of re-entry and rehabilitative services combined with Marlborough, Massachusetts-based CiviGenics, Inc., the largest provider of in-prison treatment in the country and the nation’s third-largest operator of private prisons. …
Publication • October 27, 2010
Kinney County, Amended Agreement (GEO, CEC), 2010 (__ AMENDED AND RESTATED FACILITY OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT This Amended and Restated Facility Operation and Management Agreement (hereinafter "Agreement'') is entered into by and between KINNEY COUNTY, TEXAS (hereinafter "County11) and COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTERS, INC., (hereinafter called 11 0perator11) to become effective …
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