GEO Group Wikipedia Page Controversy Erased After Football Stadium Naming Deal
Posted in: Today's ChiliGEO Group Inc., the nation’s second-largest private prison conglomerate, has until now mostly kept its brand far from the law-abiding public’s consciousness.
But this week, as the company donated $6 million as part of a naming rights deal for a college football stadium in Florida, brand image apparently became an elevated concern. Following reports in Deadspin, The Huffington Post and the New York Times on the stadium deal between GEO Group and Florida Atlantic University, a page about the company on Wikipedia suddenly came in for an extreme makeover, with all negative references excised.
A section on the Wikipedia page entitled “controversies,” which listed state and federal investigations and lawsuits claiming mistreatment of prisoners in GEO facilities, had disappeared. In its place was a new section, headlined “Quality of Operations,” which duplicated language in company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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