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World 1ST QUARTER 2016 A GEO Publication for Employees and their Families. GEO Assumes Management of 3,400-Bed Arizona State Prison in Kingman Chairman’s Letter George C. Zoley, Chairman, CEO and Founder These important projects and new is expected to generate approximately contracts allowed us to cap a very $73 million in gross annualized successful year, which was marked by the revenues. The total gross revenues activation of six projects totaling close include approximately $24 million for to 9,000 beds, including more than 5,300 debt service payments, resulting in owned beds as well as the integration of net annualized revenues to GEO of 6,500 owned beds at eight correctional approximately $49 million. and detention facilities acquired from Also in early December, we completed LCS Corrections during the first quarter To the GEO Family, the development of a $32 million expan- of 2015. sion to our company-owned Karnes County Residential Center, increasing During the fourth quarter of 2015, we the Center’s capacity to 1,158 beds. completed the respective transition and The Karnes County Residential Center These important projects and activation of two important projects was designed as the first residential, new contracts allowed us to cap totaling more than 4,000 beds. civil center under new and enhanced a very successful year, which First on December 1st, we assumed detention standards, which were issued was marked by the activation management of the 3,400-bed Arizona by the federal government in 2009. of six projects totaling close to State Prison in Kingman, Arizona under a The Center was then reprogrammed 9,000 beds, including more than managed-only contract with the Arizona in 2014 to house families consistent 5,300 owned beds as well as with the federal government’s family Department of Corrections effective the integration of 6,500 owned residential standards and under direct through February 2023. At the time of beds at eight correctional and the transition, the facility housed approxi- oversight from U.S. Immigration and detention facilities acquired from mately 1,700 inmates and is expected to Customs Enforcement. LCS Corrections during the first ramp up through end of the first quarter In addition to these project activations, of 2016. quarter of 2015. GEO Care was awarded a new five-year Prior to assuming operation of the Facility contract to provide community-based on December 1st, we had a mobilization case management services under a team onsite to ensure a smooth transition new pilot program by Department of All of these milestones are indicative of from the previous operator. This impor- Homeland Security for families going the continued need for cost effective, tant contract award is a testament to our through the immigration review process. quality services across the entire decade-long partnership with the Arizona This significant contract award, which corrections spectrum and validate our Department of Corrections and is also is expected to generate approximately company’s diversification strategy which indicative of the high quality of services $11 million in annualized revenues, is has enabled our company to provide offered by GEO. representative of GEO Care’s leadership tailored real estate, management, and in the provision of community based and programmatic solutions to our customers The Facility, which plays an important case management programs through around the world. role in helping meet the need for cost- our comprehensive ‘GEO Continuum efficient correctional bed space in Arizona, of Care.’ World Table Of Contents 09 1506 04 26 1ST QUARTER 2016 Cover Story Features Volume 22 Issue 1 02 GEO Assumes Management 04 Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for The GEO of 3,400-Bed Arizona State Group Eye Gaze and Speech Center Prison in Kingman Assistive technology that allows a disabled person EDITORIAL STAFF to communicate by just using his or her eyes, will Editor In Chief soon be available to the clients of The Arc of Palm Articles Esther D. Patton Beach County. [email protected] 04 U.S. Corrections & Detention 24 GEO’s Kutama Centre Donates Water Co-Editor Borehole for Local Pre-School Sydney M. March 24 International Services Kutama Sinthumule Correctional Centre (KSCC) donated a water borehole to the Waterval Pre- Contributors School which caters for over one hundred children. GEO Care George C. Zoley 30 Pablo E. Paez 33 Sheffield-Abraxas Co-op Gives Unique Insight to Sportsillustrated.com The Sheffield-Abraxas co-op has become not only an inspiration for the football program, but one for the community as well. COVER STORY GEO Assumes Management of 3,400-Bed Arizona State Prison in Kingman On December 1, 2015, GEO took over the operation of ASP- Kingman under a managed-only contract with the Arizona Department of Corrections effective through February 2023. 2 Cover Story GEO World 1Q2016 Building on its decade-long partnership treatment programs for sex with the State of Arizona, GEO offenders, focused on assessment, assumed management of the 3,400- psycho-education, and relapse bed Arizona State Prison in Kingman, prevention as well as life skills, Arizona (“ASP-Kingman”) on substance abuse education, December 1, 2015. GEO took over individual/group counseling, anger/ the operation of ASP-Kingman from stress management, and work skills the facility’s previous operator under programs. Arizona State Prison - Florence West a managed-only contract with the GEO also manages the 750-bed Arizona Department of Corrections The award of the management Arizona State Prison-Florence West effective through February 2023. and the 500-bed Arizona State contract at ASP-Kingman is At the time of the transition, the Prison-Phoenix which primarily pro- indicative of GEO’s ability facility housed approximately 1,700 vide treatment programs for Return to provide tailored real inmates and is expected to ramp up to Custody and Driving Under the estate, management, and through end of the first quarter of Influence (DUI) offenders. Both programmatic solutions to 2016. ASP-Kingman, which opened in facilities offer programs focused its customers through long- 2002, contains two separate units - the on employability skills, parenting, Cerbat Facility, a minimum security substance abuse education and standing public-private level facility and the Hualapai Facility, a counseling, nutrition/diet education, partnerships. medium security level facility. Prior to GED classes, Adult Basic Education assuming operations on December 1, (ABE) classes, case management, 2015, GEO had a mobilization team individual/group counseling, anger/ onsite to ensure a smooth transition stress management, work skills from the previous operator. programs and job placement. ASP-Kingman offers academic courses The award of the management con- such as ABE and GED as well as tract at ASP-Kingman is indicative of vocational courses including Carpentry, GEO’s ability to provide tailored real HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing, Culinary estate, management, and program- Arts, and industry programs; the facility matic solutions to its customers plays an important role in helping meet through long-standing public- the need for cost-efficient correctional private partnerships. These impor- bed space in Arizona. tant partnerships with the State of Arizona and other states around the The award of this important contract Central Arizona Correctional Facility country entail not only the delivery is a testament to GEO’s successful, of high quality services in correc- decade-long partnership with the tional and detention management, State of Arizona. In addition to ASP- but also the provision of industry- Kingman, GEO manages three other leading, evidence-based rehabilita- facilities totaling more than 2,500 beds tion programs aimed at reducing in Arizona. recidivism and helping offenders In Florence, GEO manages the 1,280- successfully reintegrate into society bed Central Arizona Correctional through a comprehensive ‘GEO Arizona State Prison - Phoenix West Facility which provides comprehensive Continuum of Care’. GEO World 1Q2016 Cover Story 3 RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY FOR THE GEO Group Eye Gaze and Speech Center Written By Michelle Brown, Arc of Palm Beach County Press Release Assistive technology that allows a “This amazing technology families, through services, other children speak publicly disabled person to communicate is calibrated to the specific education and advocacy,” said on behalf of the needs of the by just using his or her eyes, user, and can be programmed George C. Zoley, Chairman developmentally disabled. will soon be available to the according to his or her level of the Board, Chief Executive clients of The Arc of Palm Beach of functional communica- Officer and Founder of The The Arc of Palm Beach County, thanks to a local execu- tion,” said The Arc President GEO Group, Inc. “Through County offers an array of tive and his family, who under- and CEO Kimberly McCarten. our foundation, The GEO programs and services for stand the need all too well. “The availability of this device Group similarly is commit- children and adults with will enable the students at ted to making a difference developmental disabilities. On November 24, 2015, The Arc our Potentials Charter School in the lives of people in the Through Potentials Charter staff unveiled The GEO Group to communicate in ways communities in which we School, The Arc serves Eye Gaze and Speech Center never before possible. It is serve. We’re honored to have children from Pre-K through during a formal dedication