GEO Group

GEO Group appears in The ICE hiring boom as the private operator of the large ICE detention facility in [[FolkstonGeorgia|Folkston, Georgia]]. The source says GEO Group began operating the former state prison as an immigration detention center in 2017.

The source ties GEO Group to Private Immigration Detention through scale and contracts: the Folkston facility expanded from 1,100 beds to capacity for up to 3,000 people, while GEO Group had a $96 million federal contract and the county/city received about $1 million.

Connections

• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - federal detention customer.
• Folkston, Georgia and Charlton County - local facility and revenue context.
• Private Immigration Detention, Immigration Detention Expansion, and Detention As Local Economic Development - concepts added by the source.
• Carceral Economic Dependency - moral and economic dependency frame.