GEO Group
The GEO Group Inc specializes in detention facilities and community reentry centers. It operates in four segments: U.S. Secure Services, which mainly encompasses U.S.-based secure services business; Electronic Monitoring and Supervision Services, which conducts its services in the United States, represents services provided to adults for monitoring services and evidence-based supervision and treatment programs for community-based parolees, probationers, and pretrial defendants; Reentry Services conducts its services in the United States represents services provided to adults for residential and non-residential treatment, educational and community-based programs, pre-release and half-way house programs; and International Services.www.geogroup.com
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Oct 4, 2026
Molly LinhorstGUEST
So Delaney Hall is an immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey.
Molly LinhorstGUEST
It is run by a private prison company called GEO Group.
Molly LinhorstGUEST
Um, so these are folks who are held in what is supposed to be civil detention, non-punitive detention.
Molly LinhorstGUEST
Um, but Delaney Hall, from, that we've heard from so many different people inside and their family members, it has rampantly horrible conditions, uh, inhumane conditions, lack of medical care, really m- medical neglect, of food that people find to be inedible, abuse by guards, horrible sanitation.
Chris DeBelloHOST
They're, they're, they're attempting to hide, and they don't, and they hope that the deaths don't reveal what they're trying to hide.
Chris DeBelloHOST
We're talking with Molly Lynghorst, who is Staff Attorney with the ACLU of New Jersey, aclu-nj.org, their website, and you're listening to Issues & Ideas.
Chris DeBelloHOST
You made mention too that Delaney Hall is owned and operated by GEO Group, who is one of the handful of groups making a ton of money off of these operations, with another one back on the planning stage in Roxbury, New Jersey.
Chris DeBelloHOST
Who has legal responsibilities for these, for these facilities? Is it the owner-operator, or is it the ICE or ICE staffing who are, are they just trying to claim, "Hey, we just work here.
Jacob SoboroffHOST
So let's go back and talk more about why they're starting in Atalanta.
Jacob SoboroffHOST
The detention center is run by the GEO Group.
Jacob SoboroffHOST
As they said, a controversial private prison company.
Jacob SoboroffHOST
According to ICE's own data, about 1800 people are being held there as of July.
Thomas FreemanHOST
Bail bond companies which collect non-refundable fees from defendants awaiting trial have been estimated at around $2 billion a year in premiums.
Thomas FreemanHOST
Private prison operators such as CoreCivic and the GEO Group hold a share of the incarcerated population, roughly 8% nationally, and far higher in some states.
Thomas FreemanHOST
Prison telephone and commissary contractors earn from the families of those inside.
Thomas FreemanHOST
Courts and probation departments in many jurisdictions are funded in part by the fines and fees they collect from defendants.
Chris PlanteHOST
You don't wanna, you know, uh, uh, make this a part of your everyday life, I don't think.
Chris PlanteHOST
But Strada, the, uh, the head botcher, uh, Strada began serving as the deputy director for the Arizona Department of Corrections in January of 2020 after serving as the director of operations for private prison operator, the GEO Group.
Chris PlanteHOST
I worked for the GEO Group, uh, according to his LinkedIn page, he works for the GEO Group.
Chris PlanteHOST
Uh, according to the Death Penalty Information Center...
David FeldmanHOST
She was conducting a or attempting to conduct a surprise inspection.
David FeldmanHOST
In May of 2025, a surprise inspection of Delaney Hall, that's the notorious ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey, which the private prison corporation Geo Group is being paid $1 billion to run.
David FeldmanHOST
My sister is out there all the time protesting.
David FeldmanHOST
It's a tragedy what they're doing to these families.
Hayes DavenportHOST
Hmm.
Antonia CereijidoHOST
Um, when she reached out to the GEO Group that owns and operates Adelanto, they told her that, "Based on our records, the water delivered by the city of Adelanto's public water system meets drinking water requirements, and we have not received complaints regarding the quality of water delivered by the public water system to consumers in the Adelanto service area." So basically they're like, "Everyone drinks this water," um, and if everyone in Adelanto can drink it, then so can-
Julia TurnerPANELIST
Our detainees
Antonia CereijidoHOST
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Evan KruegelCORRESPONDENT
interpretation of Hudson's zoning code is correct.
Evan KruegelCORRESPONDENT
It's worth noting a separate lawsuit from Democratic Attorney General Phil Weiser was filed yesterday claiming the federal government skipped some required environmental reviews when agreeing to the half billion dollar contract with Geo Group.
Evan KruegelCORRESPONDENT
So multiple lawsuits are happening at the same time.
Evan KruegelCORRESPONDENT
I did reach out to the town's planning director, who's listed in that letter, the mayor and every single town council member today.
Brian LehrerHOST
Do you know any specifics about his investments in that sector?
Mike HayesGUEST
no brian i couldn't find anything and few people have been looking at kane's investments harder than me um you know plenty of ai investments plenty of things like data center companies i couldn't find any investments specifically in like geo group and core civic those giant private prison companies i will say um those companies have given millions of dollars to uh donald trump's pack which is now, we learned last week, going to throw about $3 million Tom Kane's way in the closing of this race.
Mike HayesGUEST
So you could draw kind of a
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Mike HayesGUEST
Yeah, absolutely.
Mike HayesGUEST
I mean, that's what happened at Delaney Hall in New York.
Mike HayesGUEST
I mentioned Geo Group.
Mike HayesGUEST
I believe it's a subsidiary of Geo Group that's doing the work there.
Kurt HackbarthHOST
Don't hear them talking a lot about ICE.
Kurt HackbarthHOST
Don't hear them talking a lot about the hunger strikes at places like Delaney Hall in Newark and other of the private detention centers run by GEO Group and CoreCivic.
Kurt HackbarthHOST
They don't have a lot to say about that, right? In the case of Los Angeles, oh, they don't represent us at all.
Kurt HackbarthHOST
And now, all of a sudden, you see them crying crocodile tears about the migrant community.
ChristinaHOST
... any worse, they just did.
ChristinaHOST
Because now Geo Group has been given more money to have rolling detention centers.
VeronicaHOST
This goes on all over, man
ChristinaHOST
... rolling concentration camps.
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