aid: geo-group
name: The GEO Group
description: >-
  The GEO Group, Inc. (NYSE: GEO) is a publicly traded private corrections and
  community supervision company headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. Founded
  in 1984 as Wackenhut Corrections Corporation and rebranded in 2004, it is the
  largest private prison operator in the United States and a primary
  contractor to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U.S.
  Marshals Service, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and numerous state
  departments of corrections. As of 2024 the company owned or managed
  approximately 80,000 beds across roughly 99 facilities and reported
  $2.424 billion in revenue. Its wholly owned subsidiary BI Incorporated
  operates the federal Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP) and
  builds the ankle monitors, GPS trackers, voice-verification systems and
  SmartLINK smartphone app used to monitor people in immigration proceedings
  and community supervision. GEO Group publishes no public developer API and
  has no GitHub presence; the only "platform" surfaces it exposes are
  customer-facing operational systems (BI TotalAccess for officers, BI
  SmartLINK for supervised individuals) used inside its own contracts. This
  repository documents the corporate footprint, the technology subsidiary,
  and the public-record controversies surrounding the firm under the second
  Trump administration's 2025+ ICE detention expansion, for purposes of the
  API Evangelist network's coverage of API absence in sensitive sectors.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
position: Consumer
tags:
  - Corrections
  - Private Prisons
  - Immigration Detention
  - Electronic Monitoring
  - Surveillance
  - Public Company
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/geo-group/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: geo-group:geo-secure-services
    name: GEO Secure Services
    humanURL: https://www.geogroup.com
    description: >-
      GEO Secure Services designs, builds, finances and operates secure
      correctional and ICE detention facilities under contracts with federal,
      state and international government agencies. No public developer API,
      OpenAPI spec, data feed, or inmate-locator API is published; all
      facility-level information flows are private contract integrations with
      the contracting agency.
    tags:
      - Corrections
      - Private Prisons
      - Immigration Detention
    properties:
      - type: Website
        url: https://www.geogroup.com
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.geogroup.com/About-Us
      - type: Customers
        url: https://www.geogroup.com/Services
  - aid: geo-group:geo-care
    name: GEO Care
    humanURL: https://www.geogroup.com
    description: >-
      GEO Care delivers community-based reentry, residential treatment,
      cognitive behavioral programming, substance-abuse treatment and
      non-residential supervision through GEO Reentry Services and partner
      facilities. Reported scale on the corporate website is roughly 31,500
      daily participants in evidence-based programs. No public developer API
      is published.
    tags:
      - Corrections
      - Reentry
      - Behavioral Health
    properties:
      - type: Website
        url: https://www.geogroup.com
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.geogroup.com/Services
  - aid: geo-group:geo-transport
    name: GEO Transport
    humanURL: https://www.geogroup.com
    description: >-
      GEO Transport Inc. provides secure transportation services for detainees
      and inmates between facilities, courts and removal flights, primarily
      under federal contract. No public developer API is published.
    tags:
      - Corrections
      - Transportation
    properties:
      - type: Website
        url: https://www.geogroup.com
  - aid: geo-group:bi-incorporated
    name: BI Incorporated
    humanURL: https://bi.com
    description: >-
      BI Incorporated, acquired by GEO Group in 2011, is the technology
      subsidiary that builds and operates the electronic monitoring stack used
      across community supervision and ICE's Intensive Supervision Appearance
      Program (ISAP). Product line includes BI VeriWatch 2 (wrist-worn GPS),
      BI SmartLINK (smartphone monitoring app with facial-recognition
      check-in), BI SmartBAND 1.0 (Bluetooth Low Energy wearable paired with
      SmartLINK), BI HomeGuard 20|20 (RF home monitoring), BI SoberTech
      (handheld breathalyzer), BI TotalAccess (officer case-management
      platform consolidating monitoring data), and BI Agency Assist
      (centralized administrative support for probation and parole agencies).
      None of these products expose a documented public developer API; data
      flows are private integrations with the contracting government
      supervision agency.
    tags:
      - Electronic Monitoring
      - GPS Tracking
      - Surveillance
      - Immigration
    properties:
      - type: Website
        url: https://bi.com
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://bi.com
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://bi.com
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.geogroup.com
  - type: Customers
    url: https://www.geogroup.com/Services
  - type: Careers
    url: https://www.geogroup.com/Careers
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-geo-group-inc-
  - type: Newsroom
    url: https://www.geogroup.com/Newsroom
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com