AUGUST 26, 2020 — 97 LAYOFFS AFTER EARLY CONTACT TERMINATION
The company has announced that it will be laying off 97 employees who work at its McFarland Female Reentry Facility located in McFarland, California due to an “unexpected early termination of its State of California contract.
DECEMBER 23, 2019 — TRUMP ADMINISTRATION VERSUS CALIFORNIA. REVERSES DETENTION CENTER CLOSURE.
In direct opposition to the wishes of California Governor Gavin Newsom, the GEO Group has beEn awarded two five-year extensions — one to operate the detention center in Adelanto, with capacity for 2,690 beds, and another to run the facility in Bakersfield, with capacity for 1,800 beds.
The two contracts are estimated to be worth more than $3.7 billion and would provide more than $200 million in annual revenue and 1,200 jobs according to a GEO spokesperson.
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Boca Raton, Florida-based GEO Group, supplying contractual privatized corrections, detention, and mental health treatment has announced that it will be laying off 130 employees on or around November 14, 2019. The largest work category to be laid off includes 84 correctional officers and 46 administrative and program employees located at the 700-bed McFarland, California private detention center. The proximate cause for the layoff was California Governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to inform the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that the state would be phasing out the use of private prisons. According to a state spokesperson, the need for such facilities has declined along with a more enlightened prison management system that is steadily reducing the state’s prison population.
It is also likely that the company may experience other layoffs at its California detention facilities as the State of California continues to battle ICE over the detention of illegal aliens.
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