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BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The GEO Group (NYSE: GEO) (“GEO”) announced today the activation of three company-owned facilities totaling 4,320 beds in Oklahoma, Michigan, and California.

In early June 2015, GEO began the intake of offenders at the 1,940-bed Great Plains Correctional Facility in Hinton, Oklahoma under a 10-year contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. In late June 2015, GEO also began the intake of inmates from the State of Vermont at the 1,740-bed North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin, Michigan under a five-year agreement with the Vermont Department of Corrections. Under the contract, GEO will provide comprehensive correctional management services, including the provision of industry-leading, evidence-based offender rehabilitation programs under the ‘GEO Continuum of Care.’ On July 1, 2015, GEO activated a 640-bed expansion and began the intake process at the Adelanto Detention Facility in Adelanto, California under the existing contractual structure with the City of Adelanto and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

George C. Zoley, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of GEO, said: “We are very pleased with the successful activation and the start of the intake process at our three company-owned facilities in Oklahoma, Michigan, and California. These important activations are indicative of the continued need for correctional and detention bed space across the United States as well as our company’s ability to provide tailored real estate, management, and programmatic solutions to our diversified customer base. ”

The GEO Group, Inc. (NYSE: GEO) is the first fully integrated equity real estate investment trust specializing in the design, financing, development, and operation of correctional, detention, and community reentry facilities around the globe. GEO is the world's leading provider of diversified correctional, detention, community reentry, and electronic monitoring services to government agencies worldwide with operations in the United States, Australia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. GEO's worldwide operations include the ownership and/or management of 106 facilities totaling approximately 85,500 beds, including projects under development, with a growing workforce of approximately 20,000 professionals.

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding future events and future performance of GEO that involve risks and uncertainties that could materially affect actual results, including statements regarding estimated earnings, revenues and costs and our ability to maintain growth and strengthen contract relationships. Factors that could cause actual results to vary from current expectations and forward-looking statements contained in this press release include, but are not limited to: (1) GEO’s ability to successfully pursue further growth and continue to enhance shareholder value; (2) GEO’s ability to access the capital markets in the future on satisfactory terms or at all;(3) risks associated with GEO’s ability to control operating costs associated with contract start-ups; (4) GEO’s ability to timely open facilities as planned, profitably manage such facilities and successfully integrate such facilities into GEO’s operations without substantial costs; (5) GEO’s ability to win management contracts for which it has submitted proposals and to retain existing management contracts; (6) GEO’s ability to obtain future financing on acceptable terms; (7) GEO’s ability to sustain company-wide occupancy rates at its facilities; and (8) other factors contained in GEO’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including the forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K reports.

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The GEO Group, Inc.
Pablo E. Paez, 866-301-4436
Vice President, Corporate Relations

Source: The GEO Group, Inc.