Business Conduct & Ethics

The GEO Group and its worldwide subsidiaries adhere to the highest ethical and compliance standards. As a worldwide corporation, The GEO Group represents government clients around the globe and cares for offenders, detainees, and residents in safe and secure facilities across four continents. Throughout its diversified organization, The GEO Group has implemented policies and procedures that reflect high ethical standards. The GEO Group's corporate code of ethics delineates the overarching principles that guide the organization in its day to day operations and interactions with key constituency groups.

Obeying the law, both in letter and in spirit, is the foundation on which GEO's ethical standards are built. Our Code of Conduct strives to promote the following objectives:

  • Honest and ethical conduct;
  • Ethical handling of actual or apparent conflicts of interest
  • Full, fair, accurate, timely and understandable disclosure
  • Compliance with the applicable government and self-regulatory organization laws, rules and regulations
  • Promote the protection of GEO assets
  • Promote fair dealing practices
  • Prompt internal reporting of Code violations
  • Accountability for compliance with the Code

GEO's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics

Anti-bribery Corruption Training & Whistleblower Programs

The GEO Group has a number of policies, practices, and procedures which directly address Bribery and Corruption programs, Whistleblower programs and practices, among other governance areas. These distinct and comprehensive policies and practices include, but are not limited to:

  • Standards of Employee Conduct Policy Procedures
  • Anti-Retaliation Policy and Procedures
  • Anti-Bribery and Corruption Policy and Procedures
  • Violence in the Workplace Policy and Procedures
  • Prompt internal reporting of Code violations; and
  • Sexual and Workplace Harassment Policy and Procedures

Additionally, with respect to our Whistleblower program, GEO has a dedicated hotline managed by an independent, third-party provider, which is available 24/7 and which is advertised throughout the organization. These and other policies, practices, and procedures as well as the overall area of Governance is overseen by GEO’s Senior Vice President and General Counsel, which provides for managerial responsibility and accountability at the highest level of GEO’s management structure.