The GEO Group Announces Acquisition of 650-Bed Correctional Facility in Adelanto, California

The GEO Group (NYSE: GEO) (“GEO”) announced today the acquisition of a 650-bed Correctional Facility (the “Facility) in Adelanto, California for approximately $28.0 million. The Facility was bought from the City of the Adelanto.

GEO expects to retrofit and market the Facility to local, state, and federal correctional and detention agencies. GEO financed the acquisition of the Facility with free cash flow and borrowings available under its senior revolving credit facility.

George C. Zoley, Chairman and CEO of GEO said, “We are pleased with this important facility acquisition in Southern California. We believe there’s meaningful demand for correctional and detention bed space in this important region of the country.”

The GEO Group, Inc. ("GEO") is a world leader in the delivery of correctional, detention, and residential treatment services to federal, state, and local government agencies around the globe. GEO offers a turnkey approach that includes design, construction, financing, and operations. GEO represents government clients in the United States, Australia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. GEO’s worldwide operations include the management and/or ownership of 62 correctional and residential treatment facilities with a total design capacity of approximately 60,000 beds, including projects under development.

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding future events and future performance of GEO that involve risks and uncertainties that could materially affect actual results, including statements regarding estimated earnings, revenues and costs and our ability to maintain growth and strengthen contract relationships. Factors that could cause actual results to vary from current expectations and forward-looking statements contained in this press release include, but are not limited to: (1) GEO’s ability to successfully pursue further growth and continue to enhance shareholder value; (2) GEO’s ability to access the capital markets in the future on satisfactory terms or at all; (3) risks associated with GEO’s ability to control operating costs associated with contract start-ups; (4) GEO’s ability to timely open facilities as planned, profitably manage such facilities and successfully integrate such facilities into GEO’s operations without substantial costs; (5) GEO’s ability to win management contracts for which it has submitted proposals and to retain existing management contracts; (6) GEO’s ability to obtain future financing on acceptable terms; (7) GEO’s ability to sustain company-wide occupancy rates at its facilities; and (8) other factors contained in GEO’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including the forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K reports.