Segment Reporting - Additional Information (Detail)	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017 Facility Segment
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of facilities owned by government partners, managed	7
Number of Operating segments \| Segment	1
Number of properties leased to third parties and used by government agencies	12
Correctional, Detention, and Residential Reentry Facility
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of facilities owned and managed	70
Number of facilities owned by government partners, managed	7

Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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