January 09, 2023
Private prison giant GEO Group reached a "confidential settlement agreement" with migrant fathers and their sons who alleged the immigration detention facility operator maliciously separated them with rifles and pistols, GEO and the migrants told a Texas federal judge Monday.
December 10, 2020
Private prison operator GEO Group asked a federal judge Wednesday to throw out claims that it maliciously separated families at a Texas detention center, saying it was acting at the behest of the government and should therefore be granted immunity.
May 28, 2019
A number of immigrant fathers and sons have accused private prison contractor The GEO Group Inc. of reseparating the families at a Texas detention center and causing unnecessary trauma "with callous indifference," even after a nationwide injunction barred the government from further separating families at the border.