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justaprogressive

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Fri Feb 13, 2026, 11:56 AM Friday

ICE Boosts Income at Private Prison Company GEO Group by 800 Percent by Whitney Wimbish



Private prison company GEO Group’s net income rose 800 percent during fiscal year 2025, the company announced Thursday, thanks mainly to the Trump administration’s multibillion-dollar project to create a network of concentration camps across the country.

GEO Group’s net income for fiscal year 2025 was $254.3 million, compared to $31.9 million for the year before, executives said.

The earnings report comes as GEO Group’s stock price has plummeted by more than 60 percent after it rose sharply the day after Trump won the 2024 election. On Thursday, it fell by more than 14 percent to end trading at around $13.50 a share, partially due to fears of a backlash against Trump’s deportation surge.

But a company’s stock prices and its profits are not perfectly correlated. Stock prices can reflect that investors are confident about a company because its profits are high; they can also reflect how investors feel about a company’s activities, the tendency for some to follow trading trends or the activities of major investors, and their expectations about the future. Those factors do not necessarily have bearing on whether a company wins millions of dollars’ worth of government contracts, as GEO Group has.

Executives said they expect revenue in 2026 to hit between $2.9 billion and $3.1 billion.

GEO chief executive George Zoley said he was “pleased” with the results and that the year was “the most successful period for new business wins in our company’s history. We expect ’26 to be as active as ’25.” He noted that the company still has 6,000 idle beds that the government could use in its effort to deport one million people annually. Executives said they expect the government will increase its prisoner capacity to “100,000 or more,” and prefers to run fewer but larger facilities.


https://prospect.org/2026/02/12/ice-immigration-prison-geo-group-trump/
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ICE Boosts Income at Private Prison Company GEO Group by 800 Percent by Whitney Wimbish (Original Post) justaprogressive Friday OP
I hope they lose their collective asses when they are shut down. Ferrets are Cool Friday #1
Sadly they will not. They will just go to the next hateful endeavor provided by DJT, inc. efhmc Friday #2
The for profit private prison system alive and well following the Civil War, ramped up during Reagan's KitFox Friday #3

KitFox

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3. The for profit private prison system alive and well following the Civil War, ramped up during Reagan's
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 12:22 PM
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so called “ War on Drugs” and now burgeoning on steroids. Hopefully the communities targeted for expansion of these concentration camp style facilities will continue to resist and at least throw some sand in the gears.

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