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The company recruited ex-FBI chief [[Clarence M. Kelley]], ex-Secret Service [[James J. Rowley]], [[Frank C. Carlucci]], former defense secretary and former CIA deputy director, according to the New York Times. [[William J. Casey]] was Wackenhut's outside legal counsel before [[Ronald Reagan]] appointed him director of central intelligence. Such connections 'fuelled speculation that the company was working with the CIA, a relationship that Mr. Wackenhut denied'. ...
 
The company recruited ex-FBI chief [[Clarence M. Kelley]], ex-Secret Service [[James J. Rowley]], [[Frank C. Carlucci]], former defense secretary and former CIA deputy director, according to the New York Times. [[William J. Casey]] was Wackenhut's outside legal counsel before [[Ronald Reagan]] appointed him director of central intelligence. Such connections 'fuelled speculation that the company was working with the CIA, a relationship that Mr. Wackenhut denied'. ...
 
In 2002, on George Wackenhut's retirement, [[Group 4 Falck]] bought The Wackenhut Corporation, including a majority stake in its prisons business (the Wackenhut Corrections Corporation). The following year, the prisons business, headed by [[George Zoley]], bought its shares back from Group 4 Falck, and relaunched itself as the GEO Group.
 
In 2002, on George Wackenhut's retirement, [[Group 4 Falck]] bought The Wackenhut Corporation, including a majority stake in its prisons business (the Wackenhut Corrections Corporation). The following year, the prisons business, headed by [[George Zoley]], bought its shares back from Group 4 Falck, and relaunched itself as the GEO Group.
The Wackenhut Corporation remained in Group 4 Falck's hands as [[Group 4]] merged with [[Securicor]], creating [[G4S]]. In 2010 G4S dropped the Wackenhut name (it wasn't helpful). And The Wackenhut Corporation was born again — as [[G4S Secure Solutions (USA) Inc]].”<ref>[https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/clare-sambrook/man-84-dies-handcuffed-in-hospital-uk-border-control-by-geo-group  
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The Wackenhut Corporation remained in Group 4 Falck's hands as [[Group 4]] merged with [[Securicor]], creating [[G4S]]. In 2010 G4S dropped the Wackenhut name (it wasn't helpful). And The Wackenhut Corporation was born again — as [[G4S Secure Solutions (USA) Inc]].”<ref>Clare Sambrook, [https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/clare-sambrook/man-84-dies-handcuffed-in-hospital-uk-border-control-by-geo-group  
Man, 84, dies handcuffed in hospital: UK border control by the GEO Group],openDemocracy, accessed 9 November 2015.</ref>
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Man, 84, dies handcuffed in hospital: UK border control by the GEO Group], accessed 9 November 2015.</ref>
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Revision as of 12:39, 12 November 2015

The Geo Group UK was set up by Walter MacGowan and Colin Dobell between 2004 and 2005 as a subsidiary of the American private prison giant the Geo Group Inc.

Geo Group UK won the Home Office contract to run Campsfield IRC from May 2006 to May 2011. In December 2008, it became the Home Office's preferred bidder for Harmondsworth IRC, which it ran from June 2009 until September 2014. It has also won a Home Office contract to run Dungavel IRC, which it still operates.

Directors

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Company history

According to journalist Clare Sambrook: “The GEO Group was spawned by The Wackenhut Corporation, founded by George R Wackenhut. A former FBI agent, Wackenhut started a three-man detective agency in Miami in 1954, providing security services to stay afloat, according to his 2005 obituary in the New York Times. To impress commercial clients, Wackenhut dressed his guards in helmets and paratrooper boots. He recruited former members of the CIA, the FBI and elite military forces to join his management team and the company's board, the New York Times reported. The Wackenhut Corporation gathered intelligence on individuals, 'both to run background checks for their clients and as an outgrowth of George Wackenhut’s anti-communist views', according to the New York University Digital Archive that holds some of those papers. By 1971 Wackenhut held files on 2.5 million individuals. The company recruited ex-FBI chief Clarence M. Kelley, ex-Secret Service James J. Rowley, Frank C. Carlucci, former defense secretary and former CIA deputy director, according to the New York Times. William J. Casey was Wackenhut's outside legal counsel before Ronald Reagan appointed him director of central intelligence. Such connections 'fuelled speculation that the company was working with the CIA, a relationship that Mr. Wackenhut denied'. ... In 2002, on George Wackenhut's retirement, Group 4 Falck bought The Wackenhut Corporation, including a majority stake in its prisons business (the Wackenhut Corrections Corporation). The following year, the prisons business, headed by George Zoley, bought its shares back from Group 4 Falck, and relaunched itself as the GEO Group. The Wackenhut Corporation remained in Group 4 Falck's hands as Group 4 merged with Securicor, creating G4S. In 2010 G4S dropped the Wackenhut name (it wasn't helpful). And The Wackenhut Corporation was born again — as G4S Secure Solutions (USA) Inc.”[1]

Notes

  1. Clare Sambrook, [https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/clare-sambrook/man-84-dies-handcuffed-in-hospital-uk-border-control-by-geo-group Man, 84, dies handcuffed in hospital: UK border control by the GEO Group], accessed 9 November 2015.