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GEO Group Australia

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Type
  
Subsidiary

Area served
  
Australia

Owner
  
Geo Group

Founded
  
1991

Industry
  
Corrections

Website
  
www.geogroup.com.au

Headquarters
  
Sydney, Australia

Number of employees
  
1,500

Key people
  
Pieter Bezuidenhout (M.D.)

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The GEO Group Australia Pty Ltd is an Australian subsidiary of American company The GEO Group Inc., responsible for the delivery of outsourced correctional services in Australia. Its head office is on Level 18 in the National Mutual Centre in the Sydney CBD in the City of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales.

Contents

The company was founded in 1991 as Australasian Correctional Management Pty, Ltd.

Facilities

Prisons managed by GEO Group Australia include;

  • Junee Correctional Centre, under contract with Corrective Services NSW
  • Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre, under contract with Queensland Corrective Services
  • Parklea Correctional Centre, under contract with Corrective Services NSW
  • Fulham Correctional Centre, with the separate 60-inmate capacity juvenile detention facility Nalu at Fulham Correctional Centre, both under contract with Corrections Victoria
  • the 1,000 bed Ravenhall Prison in Melbourne, Victoria, under contract with Corrections Victoria, scheduled to open in late 2017

    • References

    GEO Group Australia Wikipedia
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