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Tue, 03/08/2011 - 10:28am — Bob

The GEO Group has opened its Montgomery County mental health facility, according to a press release from the company issued today:

"GEO’s wholly-owned subsidiary, GEO Care will manage the county-owned Facility under a management contract with Montgomery County, Texas (the “County”) with an initial term effective through August 31, 2011 and unlimited two-year renewal option periods. The County in turn has an Intergovernmental Agreement with the State of Texas for the housing of a mental health forensic population at the Facility. GEO expects the Facility to generate approximately $12.4 million in annualized revenues for GEO."

As we've reported, GEO's state contract to operated this mental health facility raised eyebrows and concerns from mental advocates back in 2009.  Mental health advocates were upset about what appeared to be an allocation of money behind closed doors and without Department of State Health Services requesting funding for the contract.  See our previous coverage of the issue:

And see Grits for Breakfast's excellent coverage of the issue:

  • Geo Group secretly snagged forensic psych hospital contract in budget conference committee, July 11, 2009

Comments

Wed, 03/09/2011 - 9:20am — Anonymous (not verified)

The way things are nowadays, if you want something, you have to go out and get it; sometimes at any means neccessary. That's what GEO has been doing all these years, and will continue to do in time to come. They want to grow and grow and become bigger and better. All legally of course, they go out and GET what they want, things are not just going to fall into their lap and be given to them, they must go and take it.

And that's not just for GEO, it's with anything really in life (for the most part, anyways).

So these 'mental advocates' can raise all the eyebrows they want, there is nothing they can do about it but complain and write about it on a website.

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