Full-Time
Psychologist
The GEO Group
5,001-10,000 employees
Operator of private prisons and facilities
Compensation Overview
$180k/yr
Golden Valley, AZ, USA
In Person
PhD
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- A PhD or PsyD in Psychology from an accredited university is required.
- A current Psychology license in the state where the facility is located, or licensure or certification in accordance with contract requirements, is required.
- A current Psychology license or certification must be maintained on file at the facility.
- Evaluate and diagnose inmates, detainees, and residents for mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders.
- Coordinate mental health functions, including supervising and training staff members.
- Examine and treat detainees and inmates referred by nursing or professional staff to support injury care, disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.
- Provide psychotherapy or counseling for psychological disorders or mental illness.
- Make appropriate referrals to a psychiatrist as necessary.
- Evaluate the mental status and symptoms of inmates, detainees, and residents to determine the need for transfer or observation due to suicide risk.
- Refer inmates, detainees, and residents to the appropriate professional when they exhibit side effects.
- Document services provided and comprehensive notes in patient medical records.
- Instruct staff and officers in recognizing suicide risk factors.
- Provide in-service education for medical and correctional staff as required.
- Frequently lift or carry up to 10 pounds and walk, stand, bend, stoop, and sit.
- Occasionally lift, carry, push, or pull up to 40 pounds; climb; reach above shoulder level; and work with machinery.
- Two years of correctional work experience is preferred.
The GEO Group owns and operates private prisons, mental health facilities, and related detention services, and also manages government-owned facilities under contract, plus electronic monitoring and community-based programs. It runs these services through facilities and contracts with government agencies, including residential treatment and monitoring as part of its offerings. It differentiates itself by being the largest prison operator in the United States and by offering a diversified mix of custody, behavioral-health, and monitoring services developed through strategic acquisitions. Its goal is to provide secure, well-managed correctional and behavioral-health services across a broad geographic footprint by owning, operating, and contracting facilities for government clients.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Boca Raton, Florida
Founded
1984
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- GEO raised 2026 revenue guidance to $2.95-$3.10 billion on May 6.
- July 29 Rivers contract adds about $80 million annual revenue starting in 2026.
- ICE populations at GEO facilities rose 20% in six weeks, supporting utilization and pricing.
What critics are saying
- New Jersey's August 7 probe targets Delaney Hall deaths, medical neglect, and civil-rights violations.
- June 2 lawsuit seeks to force full inspections; an injunction could disrupt operations.
- Citizens Bank exited GEO credit facilities July 17, tightening financing and amplifying reputational damage.
What makes The GEO Group unique
- GEO owns detention real estate and sells long-duration ICE support contracts.
- 2025 wins added $520 million annualized revenue across ICE, USMS, and monitoring.
- Rivers and Delaney Hall show GEO monetizes idle facilities quickly.
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↑ 7%America's two largest private prison companies, CoreCivic and GEO Group, reported combined quarterly revenue of $1.4 billion for April through June as immigration detention nears record levels. CoreCivic's revenue rose 27% to $684.9 million, whilst GEO Group's increased 15% to $732.1 million compared to the same period last year. The figures exclude $1.6 billion in net proceeds from CoreCivic's recent sale of four facilities to the Department of Homeland Security at approximately $307,000 per bed. The US currently holds almost 66,000 people in immigration detention. Both companies are expanding revenue streams through ankle monitors for immigrants, particularly following the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians. GEO Group also generates income from transportation and deportation flight contracts with the government.
NJ AG launches probe of alleged Delaney Hall civil rights violations. NorthJersey.com Aug. 8, 2026, 10:18 a.m. ET The New Jersey Attorney General's Office has launched an investigation into potential civil rights violations by GEO Group, the private operator of Delaney Hall in Newark, in response to reports of poor conditions and recent deaths at the immigration detention center. Attorney General Jennifer Davenport announced the investigation on Friday, Aug. 7, saying she had issued investigative subpoenas through the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights. The investigation, she said, will focus on whether any inaction or action by GEO Group employees violated rights of detainees. "New Jersey has both a legal and a moral duty to stand up for the civil rights of people within our state," said Davenport. "For people who are held involuntarily, including by a private corporation like GEO Group, those rights include the right to humane treatment and adequate medical care. "We will take every action available under law to safeguard these core legal principles," she said. Story continues below photo gallery Davenport asked that anyone with relevant information contact the division's Affirmative Enforcement Unit at [email protected]. Gov. Mikie Sherrill called the investigation "the right and necessary course of action," saying that the GEO Group is "stonewalling efforts for real oversight" and would be held accountable. "We've heard the reports of disturbing conditions and have been heartbroken by recent deaths of detainees at the facility," Sherrill said in a statement. "ICE and The GEO Group have continued to block our efforts for a full health inspection and there are now reports that visitations have been stopped. We will not tolerate a facility that abdicates any transparency and accountability." GEO Group declined to comment. The company is the largest for-profit operator of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities in the country. It opened Delaney Hall in May 2025 under a 15-year, $1 billion contract. Alleged spoiled food, medical neglect, abuse, deaths. The 1,000-bed detention center has sparked complaints over living conditions, including alleged spoiled food, medical neglect and abuse. GEO Group and ICE disputed allegations, saying they meet health and safety standards in the care they provide to detainees. In May, dozens of detainees joined a labor and hunger strike. In June, the attorney general sued GEO Group on behalf of the Department of Health, seeking a court order requiring GEO Group to grant the agency full access to Delaney Hall to conduct health inspections. Since its opening, Delaney Hall has faced reports of at least three deaths of people in its custody. On Aug. 1, Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo died after falling ill. His family, who said that he did not get proper medical care, demanded at a press conference that the attorney general open an independent investigation into his death and medical care at the facility. The attorney general's announcement comes one day after all nine Democratic members of the New Jersey House delegation in Congress wrote to the heads of ICE and the Department of Homeland Security seeing information about reports of abuse and neglect. They asked for an accounting of deaths connected to Delaney Hall, including timelines, medical care provided and any corrective action taken. They also asked for inspections, mortality reviews, audits, staffing assessments and internal communications concerning medical care. They also demanded that members of Congress and New Jersey health officials be given full access to inspect Delaney Hall. DHS and ICE, which have defended care and conditions at Delaney Hall, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. "Three deaths, repeated allegations of medical neglect, restricted oversight, and less public transparency are a terrible track record of care for individuals in your custody," wrote the lawmakers. "At this point, the question is no longer whether ICE knows what is happening inside Delaney Hall. It is, 'Why does ICE continue to allow the GEO Group to put lives at risk?'"
The GEO Group reported second-quarter 2026 earnings driven by the normalisation of 2025 contract wins worth approximately $520 million in annual revenue. ICE populations at GEO facilities increased 20% over the last six weeks following the Secure America Act's restoration of baseline appropriations. The company is shifting towards a support services model, planning to sell facility real estate to the government whilst retaining long-term operational management contracts. GEO currently houses over one-third of the national ICE population. Guidance was raised to reflect first-half strength. Management expects total capital expenditures to decline below $100 million in 2027 as the current reactivation cycle for idle facilities concludes. The company repurchased 1.6 million shares for $37 million in the second quarter. Net leverage has fallen below three times adjusted EBITDA.
New Jersey congressional democrats lead letter to DHS demanding accountability for medical neglect, deaths connected to Delaney Hall. By Insider NJ | August 6, 2026, 5:21 pm | in Caucus Room All nine Democratic members of the New Jersey House delegation - Reps. Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Analilia Mejia (NJ-11), Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), LaMonica McIver (NJ-10), Robert Menendez (NJ-08), Nellie Pou (NJ-09), Donald Norcross (NJ-01), Herb Conaway (NJ-03), and Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) - today sent a letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Acting ICE Director David J. Venturella demanding immediate answers and accountability following the third death connected to Delaney Hall Immigration Detention Facility in less than a year. For months, Members of Congress, New Jersey officials, medical advocates, attorneys, and former detainees have documented disturbing allegations of abuse and neglect inside Delaney Hall: delayed emergency care, denied prescription medications, untreated chronic illness, infectious disease outbreaks, and inadequate care for medically vulnerable detainees. The delegation's June oversight visit was meant to determine whether these were isolated incidents or signs of a deeper, systemic failure. Instead of reform, the facility has now seen a third death in less than a year. "Three deaths, repeated allegations of medical neglect, restricted oversight, and less public transparency are a terrible track record of care for individuals in your custody," wrote the lawmakers. "At this point, the question is no longer whether ICE knows what is happening inside Delaney Hall. It is, 'why does ICE continue to allow the GEO Group to put lives at risk?'" The letter states ICE quietly rescinded a longstanding policy requiring public reporting and congressional notification when a person dies within 30 days of being released from ICE custody - a change the delegation says was a deliberate rollback of transparency that makes it easier to obscure the government's responsibility for deaths connected to time spent in federal custody. The letter also highlights that the State of New Jersey was forced to sue after its own health inspectors were repeatedly denied full access to Delaney Hall, even as ICE's own inspections identified multiple deficiencies in detainee care and safety. The delegation is requesting, no later than August 12, 2026, that DHS and ICE: * Provide a complete accounting of all three deaths connected to Delaney Hall since GEO Group assumed operations, including timelines, medical care provided, mortality reviews, and any corrective action taken * Explain ICE's current policy on detainee death reporting, including when a death is no longer considered a death in ICE custody, and identify any deaths connected to Delaney Hall excluded from public reporting under that policy * Produce all inspections, mortality reviews, audits, staffing assessments, corrective action plans, and internal communications concerning medical care at Delaney Hall since GEO Group assumed operations * Describe every contractual, financial, or administrative action ICE has taken against GEO Group in response to repeated allegations of inadequate medical care and the three deaths connected to Delaney Hall * Commit to granting members of Congress and New Jersey health officials full, unencumbered access to Delaney Hall, including housing units, medical facilities, records, surveillance footage, and relevant personnel Article Tags:
Immigration News today: increased ICE-TSA collaboration drives immigration arrests at airports nationwide. Around the U.S. Increased ICE-TSA collaboration drives immigration arrests at airports nationwide: Former acting ICE director John Sandweg said the agency is "mining" TSA data to "pad" arrest statistics, in an interview transcript and clip CNN sent to Early Arrival yesterday. - | CNN, Truthout, ABC7, CBS News Immigration News, Curated Sign up to get its curation of news, insights on big stories, job announcements, and events happening in immigration. ICE's new detention center contracts say state laws "shall not apply," federal documents show: One day after a judge ordered a Tacoma ICE jail to open its doors to state health inspectors, ICE published new language for detention contracts saying that state and local laws would not apply to facilities. - WIRED ICE admits it missed 800 doses of medication for detainees in Indiana detention center in April: Acting ICE Director David Venturella said in a letter, published days after an IndyStar investigation exposed the facility's subpar medical conditions, that 750 doses were missed because individuals "refused to come to the pill line." - IPM, IndyStar [Paywall] Geo Group inks deal with ICE to create 1,300-bed facility in North Carolina: The detention center, which will be one of the largest on the East Coast, is expected to generate $80 million in its first year of operations, according to estimates from the private prison contractor. - WUNC, The Carolina Journal New York. Support grows among New York Dems to abolish ICE: A mix of 143 state and local officials signed a letter to U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both Democrats, calling on them to "leverage" their positions and work to "defund and dismantle" the agency. - City&State, | Letter Deportations, detentions rise in Upstate New York in 2025, data shows: There was a 2.6-fold increase in deportations in the region last year, and while time in detentions dropped compared to 2024, shuffling between different facilities became more frequent. - WAMC Washington, D.C. Trump's mandatory detention policy loses for fifth and sixth time in appeals courts: The Seventh and Ninth Circuits, issuing rulings on the same day, have joined four other appeals courts in opposing the federal government's policy of refusing bond hearings to individuals in detention. - The New Republic Thousands of migrant children set to lose legal representation as contract expires: Contracts that have been funded by the Department of Health and Human Services since 2003 are set to expire today, potentially cutting off some 24,000 migrant children facing deportation from nonprofit legal access. - El País, LA Times [Paywall] Trump admin.'s new $100 asylum fee is speeding up deportations, attorneys and advocates say: Asylum seekers are reportedly receiving late notifications to make a payment, or are not receiving notification at all, increasing fears that their applications will be automatically denied. - POLITICO [Explainer] How the Trump admin. has undercut the asylum program, in charts: Amid a broad attack on the asylum system, approvals have hit a historic low of 2% in 2026. - NPR Trump's mandatory detention policy loses for fifth and sixth time in appeals courts: The Seventh and Ninth Circuits, issuing rulings on the same day, have joined four other appeals courts in opposing the federal government's policy of refusing bond hearings to individuals in detention. - The New Republic Thousands of migrant children set to lose legal representation as contract expires: Contracts that have been funded by the Department of Health and Human Services since 2003 are set to expire today, potentially cutting off some 24,000 migrant children facing deportation from nonprofit legal access. - El País, LA Times [Paywall] Trump admin.'s new $100 asylum fee is speeding up deportations, attorneys and advocates say: Asylum seekers are reportedly receiving late notifications to make a payment, or are not receiving notification at all, increasing fears that their applications will be automatically denied. - POLITICO [Explainer] How the Trump admin. has undercut the asylum program, in charts: Amid a broad attack on the asylum system, approvals have hit a historic low of 2% in 2026. - NPR