8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): April 27, 2017

THE GEO GROUP, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Florida	1-14260	65-0043078
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

621 NW 53rd Street, Suite 700, Boca Raton, Florida	33487
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)	(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code (561) 893-0101

N/A

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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Section 2 Financial Information

Item 2.02. Results of Operations and Financial Condition.

On May 2, 2017, The GEO Group, Inc. (“GEO” or the “Company”) issued a press release (the “Earnings Press Release”) announcing its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2017, updating its financial guidance for full year 2017 and issuing its financial guidance for the second quarter 2017. A copy of the Earnings Press Release is furnished hereto as Exhibit 99.1. GEO also held a conference call on May 2, 2017 to discuss these matters, a transcript of which is furnished hereto as Exhibit 99.2.

In the Earnings Press Release, GEO provided Net Operating Income, EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, Funds From Operations, Normalized Funds From Operations, Adjusted Funds From Operations and Adjusted Net Income for the quarter ended March 31, 2017 and the comparable prior-year period that were not calculated in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (the “Non-GAAP Information”) and are presented as supplemental disclosures. Generally, for purposes of Regulation G under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Non-GAAP Information is any numerical measure of a company’s performance, financial position, or cash flows that either excludes or includes amounts that are not normally excluded or included in the most directly comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. The Earnings Press Release presents the financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP, which is the most directly comparable to the Non-GAAP Information, with a prominence equal to or greater than its presentation of the Non-GAAP Information. The Earnings Press Release also contains a reconciliation of the Non-GAAP Information to the financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP which is the most directly comparable to the Non-GAAP Information.

Net Operating Income is defined as revenues less operating expenses, excluding depreciation and amortization expense, general and administrative expenses, real estate related operating lease expense and start-up expenses, pre-tax. Net Operating Income is calculated as net income attributable to GEO adjusted by subtracting net loss attributable to non-controlling interests, equity in earnings of affiliates, net of income tax provision, and by adding income tax (benefit) provision, interest expense, net of interest income, depreciation and amortization expense, general and administrative expenses, real estate related operating lease expense and start-up expenses, pre-tax.

EBITDA is defined as Net Operating Income adjusted by subtracting general and administrative expenses, real estate related operating lease expense, and start-up expenses, pre-tax, and by adding equity in earnings of affiliates, pre-tax. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as EBITDA adjusted for net loss/income attributable to non-controlling interests, stock-based compensation expenses, pre-tax, and certain other adjustments as defined from time to time, including for the periods presented M&A related expenses, pre-tax, start-up expenses, pre-tax, and gain on sale of real estate assets, pre-tax. Given the nature of GEO’s business as a real estate owner and operator, GEO believes that EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are helpful to investors as measures of its operational performance because they provide an indication of its ability to incur and service debt, to satisfy general operating expenses, to make capital expenditures and to fund other cash needs or reinvest cash into its business.

GEO believes that by removing the impact of its asset base (primarily depreciation and amortization) and excluding certain non-cash charges, amounts spent on interest and taxes, and certain other charges that are highly variable from year to year, EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA provide its investors with performance measures that reflect the impact to operations from trends in occupancy rates, per diem rates and operating costs, providing a perspective not immediately apparent from income from continuing operations.

The adjustments GEO makes to derive the non-GAAP measures of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA exclude items which may cause short-term fluctuations in income from continuing operations and which GEO does not consider to be the fundamental attributes or primary drivers of its business plan and they do not affect GEO’s overall long-term operating performance. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA provide disclosure on the same basis as that used by GEO’s management and provide consistency in its financial reporting, facilitate internal and external comparisons of its historical operating performance and its business units and provide continuity to investors for comparability purposes.

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Funds from Operations, or FFO, is defined in accordance with standards established by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, or NAREIT, which defines FFO as net income/loss attributable to common shareholders (computed in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), excluding real estate related depreciation and amortization, excluding gains and losses from the cumulative effects of accounting changes, extraordinary items and sales of properties, and including adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures. Normalized Funds from Operations, or Normalized FFO, is defined as FFO adjusted for certain items which by their nature are not comparable from period to period or that tend to obscure GEO’s actual operating performance, including for the periods presented M&A related expenses, net of tax, and start-up expenses, net of tax.

Adjusted Funds from Operations, or AFFO, is defined as Normalized FFO adjusted by adding non-cash expenses such as non-real estate related depreciation and amortization, stock based compensation, the amortization of debt issuance costs, discount and/or premium and other non-cash interest, and by subtracting recurring consolidated maintenance capital expenditures.

Adjusted Net Income is defined as Net Income Attributable to GEO adjusted for certain items which by their nature are not comparable from period to period or that tend to obscure GEO’s actual operating performance, including for the periods presented M&A related expenses, net of tax, and start-up expenses, net of tax.

Because of the unique design, structure and use of GEO’s correctional facilities, the Company believes that assessing the performance of its correctional facilities without the impact of depreciation or amortization is useful and meaningful to investors. Although NAREIT has published its definition of FFO, companies often modify this definition as they seek to provide financial measures that meaningfully reflect their distinctive operations. GEO has modified FFO to derive Normalized FFO and AFFO that meaningfully reflect its operations.

GEO’s assessment of its operations is focused on long-term sustainability. The adjustments GEO makes to derive the non-GAAP measures of Normalized FFO and AFFO exclude items which may cause short-term fluctuations in income from continuing operations but have no impact on GEO’s cash flows, or the Company does not consider them to be fundamental attributes or the primary drivers of GEO’s business plan and they do not affect GEO’s overall long-term operating performance. GEO may make adjustments to FFO from time to time for certain other income and expenses that do not reflect a necessary component of GEO’s operational performance on the basis discussed above, even though such items may require cash settlement. Because FFO, Normalized FFO and AFFO exclude depreciation and amortization unique to real estate as well as non-operational items and certain other charges that are highly variable from year to year, they provide GEO’s investors with performance measures that reflect the impact to operations from trends in occupancy rates, per diem rates, operating costs and interest costs, providing a perspective not immediately apparent from income from continuing operations.

GEO believes the presentation of FFO, Normalized FFO and AFFO provide useful information to investors as they provide an indication of GEO’s ability to fund capital expenditures and expand its business. FFO, Normalized FFO and AFFO provide disclosure on the same basis as that used by GEO’s management and provide consistency in its financial reporting, facilitate internal and external comparisons of its historical operating performance and its business units and provide continuity to investors for comparability purposes. Additionally, FFO, Normalized FFO and AFFO are widely recognized measures in GEO’s industry as a real estate investment trust.

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The Earnings Press Release contains reconciliation tables for Net Operating Income, EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA, Funds from Operations, Normalized Funds from Operations, Adjusted Funds from Operations and Adjusted Net Income.

GEO has presented in the Earnings Press Release certain forward-looking statements about GEO’s future financial performance that include non-GAAP financial measures, including, Net Operating Income, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Funds from Operations. The determination of the amounts that are excluded from these non-GAAP financial measures is a matter of management judgment and depends upon, among other factors, the nature of the underlying expense or income amounts recognized in a given period. While GEO has provided a high level reconciliation for the guidance ranges for full year 2017, it is unable to present a more detailed quantitative reconciliation of the forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable forward-looking GAAP financial measures because management cannot reliably predict all of the necessary components of such GAAP measures. The quantitative reconciliation of the forward-looking GAAP financial measures will be provided for completed annual and quarterly periods, as applicable, calculated in a consistent manner with the quantitative reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures previously reported for completed annual and quarterly periods.

The Non-GAAP Information should be considered in addition to results that are prepared under current accounting standards but should not be considered a consolidated substitute for, or superior to, financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. The Non-GAAP Information may differ from similarly titled measures presented by other companies. The Non-GAAP Information, as well as other information in the Earnings Press Release, should be read in conjunction with GEO’s financial statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The information set forth in Item 2.02 in this Form 8-K is being furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section. The information set forth in Item 2.02 in this Form 8-K shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Section 5 Corporate Governance and Management

Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

The GEO 2017 Annual Meeting of Shareholders was held on April 27, 2017. The following matters were voted on at the meeting: (1) the election of six directors for a term of one year and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, (2) the ratification of the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP to serve as GEO’s independent registered public accountants for the 2017 fiscal year, (3) the approval, in a non-binding advisory vote, of the compensation paid to GEO’s named executive officers, as disclosed in GEO’s Proxy Statement for the 2017 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, pursuant to Item 402 of Regulation S-K, including the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, compensation tables and narrative discussion, and (4) the non-binding advisory vote on the frequency of the advisory vote on executive compensation. The final voting results for each matter submitted to a vote of shareholders at the meeting are set forth below.

1. All of the Board’s director nominees were elected for a term of one year and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, by the votes set forth in the table below:

	Votes For		Votes Withheld		Broker Non-Votes
Clarence E. Anthony		62,577,497		392,974		7,152,862
Anne N. Foreman		62,024,113		946,358		7,152,862
Richard H. Glanton		60,138,737		2,831,734		7,152,862
Christopher C. Wheeler		62,254,377		716,094		7,152,862
Julie Myers Wood		56,571,849		6,398,622		7,152,862
George C. Zoley		60,668,006		3,302,465		7,152,862

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2. The appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as GEO’s independent registered public accountants for the 2017 fiscal year was ratified by the shareholders, by the votes set forth in the table below:

For:	69,373,715
Against:	426,885
Abstain:	322,733
Broker Non-Votes:	—

3. The shareholders approved, in a non-binding advisory vote, the compensation of GEO’s named executive officers, by the votes set forth in the table below:

For:	62,324,901
Against:	307,501
Abstain:	338,069
Broker Non-Votes:	7,152,862

4. The shareholders voted, in a non-binding advisory vote, on the frequency of the advisory vote on executive compensation, by the votes set forth in the table below:

1 Year:	52,752,347
2 Years:	219,138
3 Years:	9,697,690
Abstain:	301,296
Broker Non-Votes:	7,152,862

In line with GEO’s current practice and these voting results, GEO has determined to continue to hold future advisory votes on executive compensation on an annual basis until the Company considers the results of the next shareholder advisory vote regarding the frequency of the advisory vote on executive compensation.

Section 9 Financial Statements and Exhibits

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

Exhibit No.	Description
99.1	Press Release, dated May 2, 2017, announcing GEO’s financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2017.
99.2	Transcript of Conference Call discussing GEO’s financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2017.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

	THE GEO GROUP, INC.
05/03/2017	By:	/s/ Brian R. Evans
Date		Brian R. Evans Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)

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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.	Description
99.1	Press Release, dated May 2, 2017, announcing GEO’s financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2017.
99.2	Transcript of Conference Call discussing GEO’s financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2017.

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EX-99.1

Exhibit 99.1

NEWS RELEASE

One Park Place, Suite 700 ∎ 621 Northwest 53^rd Street ∎ Boca Raton, Florida 33487 ∎ www.geogroup.com

THE GEO GROUP REPORTS FIRST QUARTER 2017 RESULTS

Results and Guidance for all Periods is Adjusted to Reflect GEO’s 3-for-2 Stock Split

• 1Q17 Net Income Attributable to GEO of $0.35 per Diluted Share

• 1Q17 Adjusted Net Income of $0.37 per Diluted Share

• 1Q17 Normalized FFO of $0.51 per Diluted Share; 1Q17 AFFO of $0.65 per Diluted Share

• Updated Split-Adjusted FY17 Guidance for GAAP Net Income Attributable to GEO of $1.27-$1.34 per Diluted Share and Adjusted Net Income of $1.34-$1.41 per Diluted Share

• Confirmed Split-Adjusted FY17 Guidance for Normalized FFO of $1.93-$2.00 per Diluted Share and AFFO of $2.47-$2.53 per Diluted Share

Boca Raton, Fla. – May 2, 2017 — The GEO Group, Inc. (NYSE: GEO) (“GEO”), a fully integrated equity real estate investment trust (“REIT”) and a leading provider of evidence-based offender rehabilitation and community reentry services around the globe, reported today its financial results for the first quarter 2017. GEO’s financial results and guidance for all periods are presented on a split-adjusted basis to reflect the recent 3-for-2 split of GEO’s common stock.

First Quarter 2017 Highlights

• Net Income Attributable to GEO of $0.35 per Diluted Share

• Adjusted Net Income of $0.37 per Diluted Share

• Net Operating Income of $142.4 million

• Normalized FFO of $0.51 per Diluted Share

• AFFO of $0.65 per Diluted Share

GEO reported first quarter 2017 net income attributable to GEO of $40.4 million, or $0.35 per diluted share, compared to $32.4 million, or $0.29 per diluted share, for the first quarter 2016. GEO’s results for the first quarter 2017 include approximately $2.6 million, net of tax, in mergers and acquisitions related expenses and a $0.3 million gain on sale of real estate assets, net of tax. Adjusting for these items, GEO reported adjusted net income for the first quarter 2017 of $42.7 million, or $0.37 per diluted share.

GEO reported first quarter 2017 Normalized Funds From Operations (“Normalized FFO”) of $58.1 million, or $0.51 per diluted share, compared to $48.7 million, or $0.44 per diluted share, for the first quarter 2016. GEO reported first quarter 2017 Adjusted Funds From Operations (“AFFO”) of $74.0 million, or $0.65 per diluted share, compared to $62.4 million, or $0.56 per diluted share, for the first quarter 2016. GEO reported first quarter 2017 Net Operating Income (“NOI”) of $142.4 million compared to $136.3 million for the first quarter 2016.

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Contact:	Pablo E. Paez	(866) 301 4436
	Vice President, Corporate Relations

NEWS RELEASE

George C. Zoley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GEO, said, “We are pleased with our strong first quarter results, which were driven by robust financial and operational performance across our diversified platform of real estate, management and programmatic services. Our diversified platform has allowed us to provide cost-effective, high quality services for our government partners while delivering industry-leading, evidence-based rehabilitation programs to the men and women who have been entrusted to our care. We’re also pleased to have been able to confirm our split-adjusted Normalized FFO and AFFO guidance for the full-year despite our recent equity offering of 10.4 million split-adjusted shares in March of this year. We remain focused on expanding the delivery of our services and programs and on the effective allocation of capital to continue to enhance value for our shareholders.”

GEO reported total revenues for the first quarter 2017 of $550.6 million up from $510.2 million for the first quarter 2016. First quarter 2017 revenues reflect $57.2 million in construction revenues associated with the development of the 1,300-bed Ravenhall Facility in Australia (the “Ravenhall, Australia project”) compared to $40.8 million in construction revenues for the first quarter 2016.

2017 Financial Guidance

GEO updated its financial guidance for the full-year 2017 and issued financial guidance for the second quarter of 2017. GEO expects full-year 2017 total revenue to be approximately $2.28 billion, including approximately $102 million in construction revenue associated with GEO’s contract for the development and operation of the Ravenhall, Australia project. GEO updated its split-adjusted full-year 2017 guidance for Net Income Attributable to GEO in a range of $1.27 to $1.34 per diluted share and Adjusted Net Income in a range of $1.34 to $1.41 per diluted share. GEO confirmed its split-adjusted full-year 2017 guidance for Normalized FFO in a range of $1.93 to $2.00 per diluted share and AFFO in a range of $2.47 to $2.53 per diluted share.

For the second quarter 2017, GEO expects total revenues to be in a range of $581 million to $586 million, including approximately $30 million in construction revenue associated with GEO’s contract for the development and operation of the Ravenhall, Australia project. For the second quarter 2017, GEO expects Net Income Attributable to GEO to be in a range of $0.29 to $0.31 per diluted share; Adjusted Net Income to be in a range of $0.31 to $0.33 per diluted share; Normalized FFO in a range of $0.46 to $0.48 per diluted share; and AFFO in a range of $0.59 to $0.61 per diluted share.

GEO’s guidance reflects the 3-for-2 split of GEO’s common stock, which was completed on April 24, 2017; the offering of 10,350,000 shares of GEO’s common stock, on a split-adjusted basis, which closed on March 13, 2017; and the refinancing of GEO’s term loan and revolving credit facilities, which was completed on March 23, 2017.

GEO’s guidance also reflects the recent acquisition of Community Education Centers (“CEC”), which closed on April 5, 2017. As previously disclosed, GEO expects the acquisition of CEC to increase GEO’s total revenues by approximately $250 million on a fully annualized basis. In addition, GEO anticipates annual net synergies of approximately $5 million to be realized over 9 to 12 months. GEO expects the CEC acquisition to be 9-11% accretive post-synergies to GEO’s pre-acquisition Adjusted EBITDA on a fully annualized basis beginning in 2018.

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	Vice President, Corporate Relations

NEWS RELEASE

Quarterly Dividend

On April 25, 2017, GEO’s Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.47 per share. GEO’s quarterly cash dividend reflects the effect of the recent 3-for-2 split of GEO’s common stock, which began trading at the split-adjusted price on April 25, 2017. The quarterly cash dividend will be paid on May 19, 2017 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on May 9, 2017. The declaration of future quarterly cash dividends is subject to approval by GEO’s Board of Directors and to meeting the requirements of all applicable laws and regulations. GEO’s Board of Directors retains the power to modify its dividend policy as it may deem necessary or appropriate in the future.

Reconciliation Tables and Supplemental Information

GEO has made available Supplemental Information which contains reconciliation tables of Net Income Attributable to GEO to Net Operating Income, EBITDA, and Adjusted EBITDA, and Net Income Attributable to GEO to FFO, Normalized FFO and AFFO along with supplemental financial and operational information on GEO’s business segments and other important operating metrics. The reconciliation tables are also presented herein. Please see the section of this press release below titled “Note to Reconciliation Tables and Supplemental Disclosure - Important Information on GEO’s Non-GAAP Financial Measures” for information on how GEO defines these supplemental Non-GAAP financial measures and reconciles them to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. GEO’s Reconciliation Tables can be found herein and in GEO’s Supplemental Information which is available on GEO’s Investor Relations webpage at investors.geogroup.com.

Conference Call Information

GEO has scheduled a conference call and simultaneous webcast for today at 11:00 AM (Eastern Time) to discuss GEO’s first quarter financial results as well as its progress and outlook. The call-in number for the U.S. is 1-877-250-1553 and the international call-in number is 1-412-542-4145. In addition, a live audio webcast of the conference call may be accessed on the Events and Webcasts section of GEO’s investor relations webpage at investors.geogroup.com. A replay of the webcast will be available on the website for one year. A telephonic replay of the conference call will be available until May 16, 2017 at 1-877-344-7529 (U.S.) and 1-412-317-0088 (International). The participant passcode for the telephonic replay is 10106159.

About The GEO Group

The GEO Group, Inc. (NYSE: GEO) is the first fully integrated equity real estate investment trust specializing in the design, financing, development, and operation of correctional, detention, and community reentry facilities around the globe. GEO is the world’s leading provider of diversified correctional, detention, community reentry, and electronic monitoring services to government agencies worldwide with operations in the United States, Australia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. GEO’s worldwide operations include the ownership and/or management of 143 facilities totaling approximately 100,000 beds, including projects under development, with a growing workforce of approximately 23,500 professionals.

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Contact:	Pablo E. Paez	(866) 301 4436
	Vice President, Corporate Relations

NEWS RELEASE

Note to Reconciliation Tables and Supplemental Disclosure –

Important Information on GEO’s Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Net Operating Income, EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, Funds from Operations, Normalized Funds from Operations, Adjusted Funds from Operations, and Adjusted Net Income are non-GAAP financial measures that are presented as supplemental disclosures. GEO has presented herein certain forward-looking statements about GEO’s future financial performance that include non-GAAP financial measures, including, Net Operating Income, Adjusted EBITDA, FFO, Normalized FFO, and AFFO. The determination of the amounts that are excluded from these non-GAAP financial measures is a matter of management judgment and depends upon, among other factors, the nature of the underlying expense or income amounts recognized in a given period. While we have provided a high level reconciliation for the guidance ranges for full year 2017, we are unable to present a more detailed quantitative reconciliation of the forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable forward-looking GAAP financial measures because management cannot reliably predict all of the necessary components of such GAAP measures. The quantitative reconciliation of the forward-looking GAAP financial measures will be provided for completed annual and quarterly periods, as applicable, calculated in a consistent manner with the quantitative reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures previously reported for completed annual and quarterly periods.

Net Operating Income is defined as revenues less operating expenses, excluding depreciation and amortization expense, general and administrative expenses, real estate related operating lease expense, and start-up expenses, pre-tax. Net Operating Income is calculated as net income attributable to GEO adjusted by subtracting net loss attributable to non-controlling interests, equity in earnings of affiliates, net of income tax provision, and by adding income tax (benefit) provision, interest expense, net of interest income, depreciation and amortization expense, general and administrative expenses, real estate related operating lease expense, and start-up expenses, pre-tax.

EBITDA is defined as Net Operating Income adjusted by subtracting general and administrative expenses, real estate related operating lease expense, and start-up expenses, pre-tax, and by adding equity in earnings of affiliates, pre-tax. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as EBITDA adjusted for net loss/income attributable to non-controlling interests, stock-based compensation expenses, pre-tax, and certain other adjustments as defined from time to time, including for the periods presented M&A related expenses, pre-tax, start-up expenses, pre-tax, and gain on sale of real estate assets, pre-tax. Given the nature of our business as a real estate owner and operator, we believe that EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are helpful to investors as measures of our operational performance because they provide an indication of our ability to incur and service debt, to satisfy general operating expenses, to make capital expenditures and to fund other cash needs or reinvest cash into our business.

We believe that by removing the impact of our asset base (primarily depreciation and amortization) and excluding certain non-cash charges, amounts spent on interest and taxes, and certain other charges that are highly variable from year to year, EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA provide our investors with performance measures that reflect the impact to operations from trends in occupancy rates, per diem rates and operating costs, providing a perspective not immediately apparent from income from continuing operations.

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Contact:	Pablo E. Paez	(866) 301 4436
	Vice President, Corporate Relations

NEWS RELEASE

The adjustments we make to derive the non-GAAP measures of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA exclude items which may cause short-term fluctuations in income from continuing operations and which we do not consider to be the fundamental attributes or primary drivers of our business plan and they do not affect our overall long-term operating performance. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA provide disclosure on the same basis as that used by our management and provide consistency in our financial reporting, facilitate internal and external comparisons of our historical operating performance and our business units and provide continuity to investors for comparability purposes.

Funds From Operations, or FFO, is defined in accordance with standards established by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, or NAREIT, which defines FFO as net income/loss attributable to common shareholders (computed in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), excluding real estate related depreciation and amortization, excluding gains and losses from the cumulative effects of accounting changes, extraordinary items and sales of properties, and including adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures. Normalized Funds from Operations, or Normalized FFO, is defined as FFO adjusted for certain items which by their nature are not comparable from period to period or that tend to obscure GEO’s actual operating performance, including for the periods presented M&A related expenses, net of tax and start-up expenses, net of tax.

Adjusted Funds From Operations, or AFFO, is defined as Normalized FFO adjusted by adding non-cash expenses such as non-real estate related depreciation and amortization, stock based compensation expense, the amortization of debt issuance costs, discount and/or premium and other non-cash interest, and by subtracting recurring consolidated maintenance capital expenditures.

Adjusted Net Income is defined as Net Income Attributable to GEO adjusted for certain items which by their nature are not comparable from period to period or that tend to obscure GEO’s actual operating performance, including for the periods presented M&A related expenses, net of tax, start-up expenses, net of tax, and gain on sale of real estate assets, net of tax.

Because of the unique design, structure and use of our correctional facilities, we believe that assessing the performance of our correctional facilities without the impact of depreciation or amortization is useful and meaningful to investors. Although NAREIT has published its definition of FFO, companies often modify this definition as they seek to provide financial measures that meaningfully reflect their distinctive operations. We have modified FFO to derive Normalized FFO and AFFO that meaningfully reflect our operations.

Our assessment of our operations is focused on long-term sustainability. The adjustments we make to derive the non-GAAP measures of Normalized FFO and AFFO exclude items which may cause short-term fluctuations in income from continuing operations but have no impact on our cash flows, or we do not consider them to be fundamental attributes or the primary drivers of our business plan and they do not affect our overall long-term operating performance. We may make adjustments to FFO from time to time for certain other income and expenses that do not reflect a necessary component of our operational performance on the basis discussed above, even though such items may require cash settlement. Because FFO, Normalized FFO and AFFO exclude depreciation and amortization unique to real estate as well as non-operational items and certain other charges that are highly variable from year to year, they provide our investors with performance measures that reflect the impact to operations from trends in occupancy rates, per diem rates, operating costs and interest costs, providing a perspective not immediately apparent from income from continuing operations.

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Contact:	Pablo E. Paez	(866) 301 4436
	Vice President, Corporate Relations

NEWS RELEASE

We believe the presentation of FFO, Normalized FFO and AFFO provide useful information to investors as they provide an indication of our ability to fund capital expenditures and expand our business. FFO, Normalized FFO and AFFO provide disclosure on the same basis as that used by our management and provide consistency in our financial reporting, facilitate internal and external comparisons of our historical operating performance and our business units and provide continuity to investors for comparability purposes. Additionally, FFO, Normalized FFO and AFFO are widely recognized measures in our industry as a real estate investment trust.

Safe-Harbor Statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding future events and future performance of GEO that involve risks and uncertainties that could materially affect actual results, including statements regarding financial guidance for the second quarter of 2017 and full year 2017, the assumptions underlying such guidance, statements regarding the financial and operational impact of the CEC acquisition, and statements regarding future project activations and growth opportunities. Factors that could cause actual results to vary from current expectations and forward-looking statements contained in this press release include, but are not limited to: (1) GEO’s ability to meet its financial guidance for 2017 given the various risks to which its business is exposed; (2) the risk that the CEC acquisition will not be integrated successfully or that such integration may be more difficult, time-consuming, or costly than expected; (3) the risk that synergies from the CEC transaction may not be fully realized or may take longer than expected to realize; (4) the risk that the expected increased revenues and Adjusted EBITDA from CEC may not be fully realized or may take longer than expected to realize; (5) GEO’s ability to declare future quarterly cash dividends and the timing and amount of such future cash dividends; (6) GEO’s ability to successfully pursue further growth and continue to create shareholder value; (7) risks associated with GEO’s ability to control operating costs associated with contract start-ups; (8) GEO’s ability to timely open facilities as planned, profitably manage such facilities and successfully integrate such facilities into GEO’s operations without substantial costs; (9) GEO’s ability to win management contracts for which it has submitted proposals and to retain existing management contracts; (10) GEO’s ability to obtain future financing on acceptable terms; (11) GEO’s ability to sustain company-wide occupancy rates at its facilities; (12) GEO’s ability to access the capital markets in the future on satisfactory terms or at all; (13) GEO’s ability to remain qualified as a REIT; (14) the incurrence of REIT related expenses; and (15) other factors contained in GEO’s Securities and Exchange Commission periodic filings, including its Form 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K reports.

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First quarter financial tables to follow:

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations

(Unaudited)

	Q1 2017			Q1 2016
	(unaudited)			(unaudited)
Revenues	$	550,614		$	510,185
Operating expenses		414,707			388,506
Depreciation and amortization		28,949			28,451
General and administrative expenses		42,586			34,061
Operating income		64,372			59,167
Interest income		11,977			4,557
Interest expense		(35,000	)		(29,366	)
Income before income taxes and equity in earnings of affiliates		41,349			34,358
Provision for income taxes		2,470			3,151
Equity in earnings of affiliates, net of income tax provision		1,487			1,119
Net income		40,366			32,326
Less: Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interests		37			24
Net income attributable to The GEO Group, Inc.	$	40,403		$	32,350
Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding:
Basic		113,599			110,813
Diluted		114,478			111,300
Income per Common Share Attributable to The GEO Group, Inc. :
Basic:
Net income per share — basic	$	0.36		$	0.29
Diluted:
Net income per share — diluted	$	0.35		$	0.29
Regular Dividends Declared per Common Share	$	0.47		$	0.43

* all figures in ‘000s, except per share data

Reconciliation of Net Income Attributable to GEO to Adjusted Net Income

(In thousands, except per share data)(Unaudited)

Adjusted Net Income Reconciliation

	Q1 2017			Q1 2016
Net Income attributable to GEO	$	40,403		$	32,350
Add:
Start-up expenses, net of tax		—			1,190
M&A related expenses, net of tax		2,584			—
Gain on sale of real estate assets, net of tax		(261	)		—
Adjusted Net Income	$	42,726		$	33,540
Weighted average common shares outstanding - Diluted		114,478			111,300
Adjusted Net Income Per Diluted Share	$	0.37		$	0.30

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Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(Unaudited)

	As of		As of
	March 31, 2017		December 31, 2016
	(unaudited)
ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents	$	434,559	$	68,038
Restricted cash and investments		16,839		17,133
Accounts receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts		307,491		356,255
Contract receivable, current portion		237,649		224,033
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		28,992		32,210
Total current assets	$	1,025,530	$	697,669
Restricted Cash and Investments		21,678		20,848
Property and Equipment, Net		1,909,698		1,897,241
Non-Current Contract Receivable		302,836		219,783
Deferred Income Tax Assets		30,039		30,039
Intangible Assets, Net (including goodwill)		814,268		819,317
Other Non-Current Assets		62,966		64,512
Total Assets	$	4,167,015	$	3,749,409
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Accounts payable	$	84,858	$	79,637
Accrued payroll and related taxes		51,282		55,260
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities		119,908		131,096
Current portion of capital lease obligations, long-term debt, and non-recourse debt		255,123		238,065
Total current liabilities	$	511,171	$	504,058
Other Non-Current Liabilities		89,308		88,656
Capital Lease Obligations		7,098		7,431
Long-Term Debt		2,089,499		1,935,465
Non-Recourse Debt		224,291		238,842
Shareholders’ Equity		1,245,648		974,957
Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity	$	4,167,015	$	3,749,409

* all figures in ‘000s

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Reconciliation of Net Income Attributable to GEO to FFO, Normalized FFO, and AFFO

(Unaudited)

	Q1 2017			Q1 2016
	(unaudited)			(unaudited)
Net Income attributable to GEO	$	40,403		$	32,350
Add:
Real Estate Related Depreciation and Amortization		15,386			15,142
Gain on sale of real estate assets, net of tax		(261	)		—
Equals: NAREIT defined FFO	$	55,528		$	47,492
Add:
Start-up expenses, net of tax		—			1,190
M&A related expenses, net of tax		2,584			—
Equals: FFO, normalized	$	58,112		$	48,682
Add:
Non-Real Estate Related Depreciation & Amortization		13,563			13,309
Consolidated Maintenance Capital Expenditures		(6,423	)		(5,240	)
Stock Based Compensation Expenses		4,963			3,241
Amortization of debt issuance costs, discount and/or premium and other non-cash interest		3,806			2,366
Equals: AFFO	$	74,021		$	62,358
Weighted average common shares outstanding - Diluted		114,478			111,300
FFO/AFFO per Share - Diluted
Normalized FFO Per Diluted Share	$	0.51		$	0.44
AFFO Per Diluted Share	$	0.65		$	0.56
Regular Common Stock Dividends per common share	$	0.47		$	0.43

* all figures in ‘000s, except per share data    

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Reconciliation of Net Income Attributable to GEO to

Net Operating Income, EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA

(Unaudited)

	Q1 2017			Q1 2016
	(unaudited)			(unaudited)
Net Income attributable to GEO	$	40,403		$	32,350
Less
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interests		37			24
Net Income	$	40,366		$	32,326
Add (Subtract):
Equity in earnings of affiliates, net of income tax provision		(1,487	)		(1,119	)
Income tax provision		2,470			3,151
Interest expense, net of interest income		23,023			24,809
Depreciation and amortization		28,949			28,451
General and administrative expenses		42,586			34,061
Net Operating Income, net of operating lease obligations	$	135,907		$	121,679
Add:
Operating lease expense, real estate		6,483			12,681
Start-up expenses, pre-tax		—			1,939
Net Operating Income (NOI)	$	142,390		$	136,299
Subtract (Add):
General and administrative expenses		42,586			34,061
Operating lease expense, real estate		6,483			12,681
Start-up expenses, pre-tax		—			1,939
Equity in earnings of affiliates, pre-tax		(2,098	)		(1,590	)
EBITDA	$	95,419		$	89,208
Adjustments
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interests		37			24
Stock based compensation expenses, pre-tax		4,963			3,241
Start-up expenses, pre-tax		—			1,939
M&A related expenses, pre-tax		2,620			—
Gain on sale of real estate assets, pre-tax		(261	)		—
Adjusted EBITDA	$	102,778		$	94,412

* all figures in ‘000s

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2017 Outlook/Reconciliation

(In thousands, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

	FY 2017
Net Income Attributable to GEO	$	154,000		to	$	162,500
Real Estate Related Depreciation and Amortization		71,000				71,000
Funds from Operations (FFO)	$	225,000		to	$	233,500
Adjustments
M&A and Transition Related Expenses		8,000				8,000
Normalized Funds from Operations	$	233,000		to	$	241,500
Non-Real Estate Related Depreciation and Amortization		61,000				61,000
Consolidated Maintenance Capex		(26,500	)			(27,000	)
Non-Cash Stock Based Compensation and Non-Cash Interest Expense		31,000				31,000
Adjusted Funds From Operations (AFFO)	$	298,500		to	$	306,500
Net Cash Interest Expense		83,000				83,000
Consolidated Maintenance Capex		26,500				27,000
Income Taxes		20,000				20,000
Adjusted EBITDA	$	428,000		to	$	436,500
G&A Expenses		176,000				176,000
Non-Cash Stock Based Compensation		(16,000	)			(16,000	)
Equity in Earnings of Affiliates		(6,000	)			(6,000	)
M&A and Transition Related Expenses		(8,000	)			(8,000	)
Real Estate Related Operating Lease Expense		30,000				30,000
Net Operating Income	$	604,000		to	$	612,500
FFO Per Diluted Share (Normalized)	$	1.93		to	$	2.00
AFFO Per Diluted Share	$	2.47		to	$	2.53
Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding-Diluted		121,000		to		121,000

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EX-99.2

Exhibit 99.2

Participants

CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS
Pablo E. Paez Vice President-Corporate Relations, The GEO Group, Inc. George C. Zoley Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Founder & Director, The GEO Group, Inc. Brian R. Evans Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President, The GEO Group, Inc.	J. David Donahue Senior Vice President and President, U.S. Corrections and Detention, & International Operations, The GEO Group, Inc. Ann M. Schlarb Senior Vice President & President,GEO Care, The GEO Group, Inc. David J. Venturella Senior Vice President-Business Development, The GEO Group, Inc.
OTHER PARTICIPANTS
Kevin McVeigh Analyst, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. Michael B. Kodesch Analyst, Canaccord Genuity, Inc.	Tobey Sommer Analyst, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. Kevin A. McClure Analyst, Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Management Discussion Section

Operator

Hello and welcome to the GEO Group 1Q 2017 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded. I now would like to turn the conference over to Pablo Paez, Vice President of Corporate Relations. Please go ahead.

Pablo E. Paez

Vice President-Corporate Relations, The GEO Group, Inc.

Thank you, Operator. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for today’s discussion of the GEO Group’s first quarter 2017 earnings results.

With us today is George Zoley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Brian Evans, Chief Financial Officer; Ann Schlarb, President of GEO Care; David Donohue, President of GEO Corrections & Detention; and David Venturella, Senior Vice President of Business Development.

This morning, we will discuss our first quarter results and current business development activities. We will conclude the call with a question-and-answer session. This conference call is also being webcast live on our website at investors.geogroup.com.

Today, we will discuss non-GAAP basis information. A reconciliation from non-GAAP basis information to GAAP basis results is included in the press release and supplemental disclosure that were issued this morning.

Additionally, much of the information we will discuss today, including the answers we give in response to your questions, may include forward-looking statements regarding our beliefs and current expectations with respect to various matters. These forward-looking statements are intended to fall within the safe harbor provisions of the securities laws. Our actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors contained in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including the Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K reports.

With that, please allow me to turn this call over to our Chairman and CEO, George Zoley. George?

George C. Zoley

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Founder & Director, The GEO Group, Inc.

Good morning to everyone and thank you for joining us on this call. We are very pleased with our strong first quarter results, which reflect the continued growth of our diversified business units of GEO Corrections & Detention, as well as GEO Care.

Our first quarter performance was driven by higher occupancy rates across our diversified real estate portfolio, particularly throughout a number of our federal facilities. In addition, our GEO Care division continued to experience year-over-year revenue and earnings growth, driven primarily by the continued utilization of its ISAP program with ICE.

Our first quarter results reflect the activation of our company-owned 780-bed Folkston Processing Center under a fixed price intergovernmental agreement between ICE and Charlton County, Georgia, which began ramping up in January of this year. The Folkston Center is expected to generate approximately $21 million in annualized revenues.

In addition to this project activation, we’re very pleased to have been awarded a new contract by ICE in April of this year for the development and operation of a new company-owned 1,000-bed detention facility in Conroe, Texas. The new $117 million detention facility is expected to generate approximately $44 million in annualized revenues on its expected completion in the fourth quarter of 2018.

We are pleased to have been able to build on our partnership with ICE, which dates back three decades to 1986 and has helped the agency provide high-quality services in safe, humane and culturally responsive environments pursuant to the federal government’s Performance-Based National Detention Standards.

In order to continue to be in a position to meet what is expected to be increased demand for detention capacity at the federal level, we also recently acquired the 688-bed Maverick County Detention Center in Texas for approximately $15 million. The center, which is currently idle was originally built by Maverick County in 2008 and previously provided services for the U.S. Marshals Service.

To support other future capital needs, we took important steps during the first quarter to reposition our capital structure with the issuance of 10.4 million shares of our common stock on a split-adjusted basis and the refinancing of our term loan and revolving credit facilities.

Our recent equity offering and credit facility refinancing increased our liquidity by approximately $276 million and helped us lower our total net leverage ratio to approximately 4.5 times currently – EBITDA.

Following these important capital market transactions, we closed on our previously announced acquisition of Community Education Centers for $360 million in early April. CEC managed over 12,000 beds nationwide, including approximately 7,000 of the reentry beds, which we believe represents one of the largest real estate portfolios of owned and managed community reentry centers in the country. We have successfully integrated CEC in our existing business units of GEO Corrections & Detentions and GEO Care, and we expect to achieve our previously guided synergies, revenues and earnings accretion from this important acquisition.

Following the CEC acquisition, we now own or manage approximately 100,000 beds worldwide, including approximately 10,000 community reentry beds. At 100,000 beds, GEO is the largest corrections and detention provider in the private sector and, to our knowledge, the fifth largest among all unified correction organizations in the world. We believe the CEC acquisition represents a compelling strategic fit for GEO, which will allow us to continue to expand the delivery of industry-leading rehabilitation and community reentry programs through our GEO Continuum of Care.

As a socially responsible service provider, we are continuing to expand our organizational and financial commitment to be the world leader in the delivery of offender rehabilitation and community reentry programs. As we announced earlier this year, we have continued to expand our GEO Continuum of Care division by doubling our annual expenditure commitment from $5 million to $10 million beginning this year.

Our GEO Continuum of Care integrates enhanced in-prison programs, which are evidence-based and includes cognitive behavioral treatment with post-release services, including for housing, food, clothing, transportation and job placement services. We presently have 13 GEO facilities that involve more than 15,000 individuals in 9 states, which are in various stages of fully implementing the GEO Continuum of Care rehabilitation model. Additionally, in the state

of Victoria, Australia, GEO is developing the 1,300-bed Ravenhall Prison, which we believe will have the most comprehensive rehabilitation program in the world. All of these efforts underscore our continued belief that, as a company, we are at our best when helping those in our care re-enter society as productive and employable citizens.

In summary, our strong first quarter financial results have been underpinned by our company’s diversification, which has allowed us to continue to pursue quality growth through both organic projects and acquisitions. We are also actively marketing our available beds in inventory and have been encouraged by recent demand trends.

Following the CEC and Maverick County, we have approximately 5,000 idle beds and 2,000 underutilized beds at existing facilities. Combined, we have – we believe these 7,000 available beds could generate more than $60 million annually in incremental adjusted EBITDA. We believe the strength of our growth platform and our financial performance have positioned us to continuously enhance value for our shareholders.

We recently completed a 3-for-2 split of our common stock, which we believe will increase trading liquidity in our stock and should be viewed as a signal of our expectation of continued earnings and cash flow growth.

We are proud that our continued growth has allowed us to confirm our split-adjusted AFFO per share guidance for the year and our quarterly dividend payment despite our recent equity offering of 10.4 million shares on a split-adjusted basis. We are also proud to have been able to pay what is currently the highest dividend in our industry of $0.47 per share quarterly or $1.88 per share annually on a split-adjusted basis.

Now, I would like to turn the call over to our CFO, Brian Evans.

Brian R. Evans

Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President, The GEO Group, Inc.

Thank you, George, and good morning, everyone. As disclosed in our press release today, for accounting purposes, our results for both periods presented first quarter 2017 and first quarter 2016 are adjusted retroactively to reflect the effect of our recent 3-for-2 stock split.

This morning, we reported net income attributable to GEO per share or GAAP earnings per share for the first quarter 2017 of $0.35 per share, which reflects approximately $2.6 million net of tax and M&A-related expenses, which are included in our G&A expense for the quarter, and a gain on sale of real estate assets of approximately $300,000 net of tax. Excluding these items, we reported adjusted EPS of $0.37 per diluted share and adjusted funds from operations of $0.65 per diluted share.

Our revenues for the first quarter 2017 increased to approximately $551 million from $510 million a year ago. Construction revenue for the first quarter was $57 million compared to $41 million in the first quarter of 2016. As a reminder, our construction revenue is related to our Ravenhall Project in Australia and has little or no margin.

For the first quarter 2017, we reported NOI of approximately $142 million. Compared to first quarter 2016, our first quarter 2017 results reflect the activation of our company-owned 780-bed Folkston ICE Processing Center in January of this year, overall, higher utilization rates for our federal facilities under contract with ICE, as well as the ICE ISAP program and, as George mentioned, the issuance of 10.4 million shares of our common stock on a split-adjusted basis in March of this year.

Moving to our outlook for the balance of 2017. We’ve updated our guidance for the full year on a split-adjusted basis to reflect the recent 3-for-2 stock split. We expect our stock split-adjusted full year adjusted net income to be in a range of $1.34 to $1.41 per diluted share. We have confirmed our split-adjusted full year normalized FFO guidance in a range of $1.93 to $2.00 per diluted share. And we have confirmed our split-adjusted full year AFFO guidance in a range of $2.47 to $2.53. We expect full year revenue to be approximately $2.3 billion, including approximately $102 million in construction revenue related to the Ravenhall Project.

For the second quarter of 2017, we expect total revenues to be in the range of $581 million to $586 million, including approximately $30 million in construction revenue related to the Ravenhall Project. Our second quarter 2017 adjusted net income is expected to be in a range of $0.31 to $0.33 per diluted share. We expect normalized FFO to be between $0.46 and $0.48 per diluted share and AFFO to be between $0.59 and $0.61 per diluted share for the second quarter 2017.

Our guidance for 2017 reflects the following assumptions. First, our updated guidance reflects our recent equity offering of 10.4 million shares on a split-adjusted basis, as well as the recent refinancing of our term loan and revolving credit facility. The impact of our equity offering and credit facility refinancing is offset by the contribution from the CEC acquisition, which closed in April of this year and is now included in our guidance.

As previously guided, we expect the acquisition of CEC to add approximately $250 million in fully annualized revenues. We also expect annualized net synergies of approximately $5 million to be realized over a 9 to 12-month period. On a fully annualized basis beginning in 2018, we expect the acquisition to be 9% to 11% accretive post synergies to our pre-acquisition-adjusted EBITDA.

Our outlook for the year also reflects our previously announced increase in annual expenditures related to our GEO Continuum of Care from $5 million to $10 million.

With respect to the CAR 16 procurement, as we have previously announced, our guidance continues to assume that it will result in a road to profitability for GEO, given the competitive nature of the procurement.

Finally, we have not assumed any new contracts for the utilization of our 7,000 available beds, which as George discussed, could represent material upside to our guidance.

With respect to our liquidity position, we have more than $660 million in available capacity under our revolving credit facility in addition to an accordion feature of $450 million under our credit facility.

As George previously mentioned, our recent equity offering and our continued earnings and cash flow growth have resulted in a decrease in our total net leverage ratio to approximately 4.5 times post-CEC acquisition.

With respect to our uses of cash, we expect our project and growth CapEx to be approximately $120 million in 2017, of which approximately $26 million had been spent as of the end of the first quarter. We also have approximately $17 million in scheduled annual principal payments of debt. As it relates to our dividend payment, as we announced last week, our board declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.47 per share or $1.88 per share annualized on a split-adjusted basis.

We continue to expect 2017 to be a dynamic year and we will continue to evaluate our dividend on a quarterly basis consistent with our targeted minimum AFFO payout ratio of 75%.

With that, I will turn the call to Dave Donahue for a review of our GEO Corrections & Detention segment.

J. David Donahue

Senior Vice President and President, U.S. Corrections and Detention, & International Operations, The GEO Group, Inc.    

Thanks, Brian, and good morning to everyone. I’d like to give you an update on our GEO Corrections & Detention segment. As you may be aware, GEO has enjoyed a three decade long partnership with the federal government, and we currently provide services for the Federal Bureau of Prisons; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, more commonly referred to as ICE; and the U.S. Marshals Service.

Additionally, we own and/or manage correctional facilities for 10 states, including Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Vermont, Virginia and Indiana. Our business relationships with our state customers began in the mid-1980s and now involve more than 20 facilities that are almost all medium security or higher.

With respect to the international markets, GEO is the only U.S. publicly traded company providing corrections and detention services overseas. We operate in the U.K., Australia and South Africa. We’re extremely proud of our long-standing partnerships with our government customers in the U.S. and internationally.

With respect to recent facility activations during the first quarter, we completed the intake process at our company-owned 780-bed Folkston ICE Processing Center under a 5-year intergovernmental agreement between Charlton County, Georgia and ICE. This new contract is expected to generate approximately $21 million of annualized revenues for GEO.

We’re also pleased to have been recently awarded a new 10-year contract for the development and operation of a company-owned 1,000-bed detention facility in the Houston area, specifically Conroe, Texas. This important contract was awarded under solicitation issued by ICE in 2015 and which was a rebid of the ICE Houston Contract Detention Facility.

Our new $117 million facility will comply with the most recent ICE Detention Standards and provide extensive ICE offices and support areas. The project will create more than 330 full-time jobs in Montgomery County, Texas, where our company has had a long-standing presence through the management of our company-owned 1,500-bed Joe Corley Detention Facility.

The new facility in Conroe is expected to generate approximately $44 million in annualized revenues for GEO with returns on investment consistent with our company-owned facilities upon its completion in the fourth quarter of 2018.

We are proud of our extensive record of helping meet ICE’s needs with facilities that are highly rated and provide high-quality cost-effective services in safe, secure and humane residential environments. Over the last 30 years, our public/private partnership has allowed ICE to transfer services from older public jail facilities that did not meet the most up-to-date national standards to our highly rated cost-effective facilities.

As has been reported, the new administration has implemented a number of new policy directives, including ending the previous policy of catch and release and eliminating the many restrictions imposed on ICE officers to carry out the law as it relates to interior immigration enforcement. These changes may lead to an increase in apprehensions and detentions in the future.

Accordingly, the omnibus appropriations bill being considered by Congress, which will fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2017 through the end of September, includes more than an additional $1 billion for the Department of Homeland Security for border security, including funding for the hiring of new ICE personnel and more than 5,000 additional detention beds.

Moving on to the Federal Bureau of Prisons; as you know, the agency has a pending procurement known as CAR 16, which is currently sized at 3,600 beds. While decision on this solicitation is pending, the BOP also recently issued a pre-solicitation for a procurement notice CAR 19 for 9,540 beds at existing facilities. The Bureau of Prisons anticipates the CAR 19 solicitation to be issued on or about May 24, with a closing date of July 24, 2017. Combined, the CAR 16 and CAR 19 procurements total more than 13,000 beds, which is a larger number than the 10,800 beds that were contemplated under the original CAR 16 procurement. We believe this is indicative of the continued need for beds by the Bureau of Prisons.

As a reminder, our company-owned 3,500 bed, Big Spring Facility in Texas is currently being rebid under the CAR 16 procurement. The contract for our Big Spring Facility that was set to expire at the end of March was recently extended through the end of September. The 3,700-bed Reeves County-owned facility, which is comprised of two contracts between the Bureau of Prisons and the County and for which we have a management consulting agreement, is also being rebid under CAR 16. The Reeves County contracts with the BOP were recently extended through the end of June and July, respectively. We remain hopeful of retaining our contract for the GEO-owned Big Spring Facility and the county-owned Reeves Facility.

Additionally, the BOP has also recently issued a solicitation for CAR 18 for the management and operation of the government-owned Taft Correctional Facility located in Taft, California. The CAR 18 pre-solicitation notice, which was issued on April 3, provides for the facility to house a daily population of 2,355 beds under a contract term of 10 years inclusive of all option periods.

Moving to the state level; several states continue to face capacity constraints and inmate population growth and many of our state customers are facing challenges related to aging, inefficient prisons, which need to be replaced with new more cost-effective efficient facilities. For instance, in the states we currently operate, the average age of state prisons ranges from approximately 30 to 60 years. There are several states, including Oklahoma, Michigan, Kentucky, Kansas, Wisconsin and others, which have discussed the potential use of public/private partnerships to deal with the overcrowding conditions, as well as to replace older and more costly facilities.

In Michigan, the legislature passed budget language last year directing the state to explore options for the potential lease or purchase of available private correctional facilities in state to replace older, more costly facilities.

In Kansas, the Department of Corrections recently issued a solicitation for the development of a new 2,400-bed facility, which may be privately owned and state-operated, and will replace the Lansing Correctional Facility, which is in the state’s oldest prison facility.

Similarly, in Wisconsin, the legislature is considering a legislative proposal for the development of a new facility to replace one of the state’s oldest prison facilities. In states of Oklahoma and Alabama, they have discussed proposals for the development of new facilities, which may include the use of public/private partnerships to replace older infrastructure.

Finally, at the local level, Hamilton County, Tennessee had issued a public/private partnership procurement for the development of replacement jail facilities totaling approximately 1,800 beds. At this time, we believe the county is evaluating its options and may proceed with the continuation of its current private management contract arrangement in lieu of developing replacement facilities. We’re awaiting additional action from the County regarding this potential project.

With respect to our international markets, our GEO Australia subsidiary has continued to work on our project for the development and operation of the new 1,300-bed Ravenhall Prison near Melbourne. The large-scale project is expected to be completed in November of this year and will provide an unprecedented level of in-prison and post-release rehabilitation programs. The project is being developed under a public-private partnership. During the first quarter of this year, GEO made a previously scheduled investment of $87 million, with expected returns consistent with our company-owned facilities.

Also in Australia, the State of New South Wales had issued a procurement for a 1,700-bed facility known as the Grafton Prison. Unfortunately, after making the final shortlist of bidders, GEO was not the successful bidder for this project.

Finally, we are awaiting the contract award announcement potentially this quarter for the 400-bed John Morony Facility in New South Wales, which is a managed-only opportunity.

At this time, I’d like to turn the call over to Ann Schlarb for a review of our GEO Care segment. Ann?

Ann M. Schlarb

Senior Vice President & President,GEO Care, The GEO Group, Inc.

Thank you, Dave, and good morning, everyone.

As you may remember, our GEO Care segment is composed of four divisions. Following the acquisition of CEC, our GEO Reentry division now oversees 51 halfway houses totaling over 10,000 beds. Additionally, our GEO Reentry division manages more than 90 non-residential programs, including day reporting centers and in-prison treatment programs, with the ability to serve approximately 10,000 participants.

Our Youth Services division oversees 12 residential facilities with approximately 1,300 beds and 7 non-residential programs with approximately 1,200 participants. Our BI division provides services for approximately 171,000 individuals under community supervision, including more than 124,000 individuals through an array of technology products, including radio frequency, GPS, and alcohol monitoring devices. Finally, our GEO Continuum of Care division oversees the integration of our industry-leading evidence-based rehabilitation programs, both in-prison and through our community-based and post-release services.

We believe that our focus on improved rehabilitation and community reentry programs is in line with efforts being undertaken by government agencies not only in the U.S., but also internationally to invest in meaningful rehabilitation and recidivism reduction programs. We believe these efforts will continue to create opportunities for our company to partner with governments around the world.

Each of our divisions continues to pursue several new growth opportunities. Following the acquisition of CEC, our expanded GEO Reentry platform is well positioned to work with existing and prospective local and state correctional customers to leverage new opportunities in the provision of community reentry services. Those services are provided through real estate and programmatic solutions in residential settings as well as case management and support services in non-residential day reporting centers and in-prison treatment programs.

We are pursuing a number of new opportunities for residential reentry centers at the state and Federal level and for new day reporting centers, primarily at the state and local level. We estimate these new opportunities total approximately $76 million in potential annualized revenues.

Our Youth Services division continues to work towards maximizing the utilization of our existing asset base. Over the last couple of years, our Youth Services team has undertaken a number of marketing initiatives aimed at increasing the overall utilization of our existing Youth Services facilities. These important efforts have resulted in consistent and stronger sense of levels at several of our facilities as well as year-over-year earnings growth. We are pursuing additional referrals working with agencies at the Federal and local level for our Pennsylvania facilities and are exploring additional expansion opportunities of our community-based programs in Ohio and elsewhere.

Finally, our BI subsidiary continues to grow its supervision and electronic monitoring services at the local, state, and Federal level nationwide. BI is currently pursuing new business opportunities in a number of jurisdictions totaling approximately $23 million in annualized revenue potential.

With respect to our contract with the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program or ISAP, as we have updated you over the past several quarters, the utilization of this program has been increasing rapidly since the beginning of 2016. Currently, the program has approximately 70,000 average daily participants.

At this time, I’ll turn the call back to George for his closing remarks.

George C. Zoley

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Founder & Director, The GEO Group, Inc.

Thank you, Ann.

We are very pleased with our strong first quarter results and our outlook for the balance of the year, which reflect the continued growth of our diversified real estate and services platform. We have an extensive track record of capturing new organic growth projects and successfully integrating company and asset acquisitions which have created long-term value for our shareholders. And we believe that in each of our service lines, we’ve become a world leader and are recognized by our customers as best-in-class.

We are excited to have closed on our previously announced acquisition of CEC, which we believe has further solidified our position as the leading provider of evidence-based rehabilitation and community reentry services in the world. Following the acquisition of CEC, GEO now has 100,000 beds, making it the fifth largest corrections organization in the world.

We are philosophically and financially committed to maintaining what we believe is our position as the leading provider of evidence-based rehabilitation and community reentry services in the world. To this end, we have doubled our annual company commitment from $5 million to $10 million to continue to expand the delivery of our GEO Continuum of Care, providing enhanced offender rehabilitation integrated with post-release services.

We also continue to be optimistic about the demand for our diversified services and growth potential. With the acquisitions of CEC and Maverick County Detention Center, we now have approximately 7,000 available beds, which we believe could generate more than $60 million in annualized adjusted EBITDA.

As I have expressed to you in the past, it is gratifying to see GEO’s continued financial success based on its successful diversification and commitment to operational excellence. The success continues to be underpinned by our belief that, as a company, we are at our best when helping those in our care re-enter society as productive and employable citizens.

This concludes our presentation. And we would now like to open the call to your questions.

Question And Answer Section

Operator

Yes. Thank you. [Operator Instructions] And the first question comes from Kevin McVeigh with Deutsche Bank.

Kevin McVeigh

Analyst, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Great. Thanks, and thank you all for the detail. Hey, Brian, I just wanted to kind of dive into the guidance a little bit more. It looks like you took the revenue up $180 million. Can you just help us understand how much of that was CEC versus the core business and kind of maybe layer that down into the EBITDA as well?

Brian R. Evans

Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President, The GEO Group, Inc.

Well, I think that the CEC is annualized about $250 million a year in revenue. So for the 2017, it’s probably about $180 million of additional revenue. So the guidance that we’ve provided reflects the update for CEC. I don’t think we had any material change to our standalone 2017 guidance from what we already provided. So the increase really reflects the CEC transaction, which you nailed the $180 million on the head.

Kevin McVeigh

Analyst, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Got it. That’s helpful.

Brian R. Evans

Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President, The GEO Group, Inc.

And then, I think we’ve said from a annualized basis, the CEC is worth about 9% to 11% on an EBITDA basis. Pre-acquisition, GEO eats standalone EBITDA. So again, I think proportionately, it’s going to be somewhat less in 2017, because we’re working through the synergies. And I don’t – in the second quarter, there’s no material synergies from the transaction. We’ll have some transition expenses that we’ll disclose when we provide our second quarter earnings results, but it’s really going to take until the fourth quarter before we start to materially realize those synergies, transition their corporate office staff to our corporate office, complete the integration around systems, field personnel, etcetera. So we don’t really expect to realize any meaningful synergies until 2018.

Kevin McVeigh

Analyst, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Got it. But the EBITDA take-up is all around CEC as well, is that right? Is that the best way to think about it?

Brian R. Evans

Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President, The GEO Group, Inc.

Yes. I mean, compared to what our guidance was for 2017 standalone, that’s correct. So I think the way to look at it is, during the quarter we acquired CEC, we issued a significant amount of equity. We delevered the balance sheet. We positioned the company for future growth. We increased our liquidity by over $400 million to about $650 million. So that’s all of what’s transpired during the quarter and you could argue that CEC helped position the company for all that and absorbed some of that equity offering. So we’ve maintained our guidance despite issuing 10 million

additional shares. And then, next year, we would expect accretion from CEC above that. And again, as George mentioned and I think Dave mentioned, we have not included in any of our guidance any additional contracts or prospective contracts related to ICE and the BOP procurement related to CAR 19. And we think we’ve captured reasonably what we expect the outcome to be from CAR 16.

Kevin McVeigh

Analyst, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.    

Got it. That’s helpful. And then, one other one. The Maverick County – if you said this, I missed it, but was that an acquisition in the quarter? And what did you pay for that? And then, is that included in the 7,000 beds underutilized? And if it is, how much is that Maverick County Facility acquired? How much came in from kind of CEC and then, ultimately, what was the existing business?

Brian R. Evans

Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President, The GEO Group, Inc.    

So Maverick County is an idle facility currently. We’ve previously operated it and it’s been some years since we operated it as a managed-only facility. It’s about 700 beds and we acquired it for $15 million. [ph] We haven’t (37:09) included it in the idle beds, the 7,000 beds that George mentioned, but we haven’t included any upside from it. So we’ve absorbed the carrying costs, the addition – the financing costs, et cetera related to it, but we haven’t included any upside. And we would expect to target that to a Federal client.

Kevin McVeigh

Analyst, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.    

Got it. But that’s in that 7,000 underutilized beds?

Brian R. Evans

Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President, The GEO Group, Inc.    

Yes.

Kevin McVeigh

Analyst, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.    

Okay. But another point to kind of make on the guidance is the guidance was that much better because you’ve got this incremental costs now from the operations and financing that you’re not getting credit for that you didn’t anticipate. Is that a fair way to think about it?

Brian R. Evans

Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President, The GEO Group, Inc.    

Yeah. I think that’s a good synopsis.

Kevin McVeigh

Analyst, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.    

Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. And the next question comes from Michael Kodesch with Canaccord Genuity.

Michael B. Kodesch

Analyst, Canaccord Genuity, Inc.

Hey, good morning, guys. Thanks for taking my questions. I guess, maybe just first off on the Grafton Facility, I guess, kind of establishing yourself there with Ravenhall and that’s seemingly going pretty well. Just any comments on why you think Grafton didn’t – you weren’t included on the bid for Grafton?

George C. Zoley

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Founder & Director, The GEO Group, Inc.    

Well, the contract has not been signed yet. And so, therefore, there hasn’t been a debriefing for us to take advantage of. So we don’t know why.

Michael B. Kodesch

Analyst, Canaccord Genuity, Inc.    

Okay. And then, I guess, looking at the BOP, any idea why they would extend those contracts for maybe six months, but then not really have an answer, I guess, on the procurement itself? Is there a reason for the delay?

Brian R. Evans

Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President, The GEO Group, Inc.    

You’re talking about CAR 16?

Michael B. Kodesch

Analyst, Canaccord Genuity, Inc.    

Correct.

George C. Zoley

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Founder & Director, The GEO Group, Inc.    

Is there a reason for the delay? Now, we really don’t have an insight to that. Now, the procurement has been going on almost two years. So we continue to await the outcome, but I would think we’re at the very end of it and it’s very possible that awards will be made on CAR 16 by the end of this month, which begins the beginning of CAR 19.

Michael B. Kodesch

Analyst, Canaccord Genuity, Inc.    

Okay. That’s helpful. Alrighty, I guess, moving maybe just to ICE then, can you help maybe frame, I guess, in your mind what the ICE opportunity looks like with the latest budget being passed for a little over 39,000 beds being fully funded? What are you guys kind of see is now the new opportunity set?

David J. Venturella

Senior Vice President-Business Development, The GEO Group, Inc.    

Well, this is Dave Venturella. So what we see is ICE beginning to implement their Interior Enforcement Strategy. For the past 8 to 10 years, the focus has been on the border. I think everybody has seen the number of apprehensions and crossings going down. So phase 2 of that strategy is to focus in the interior.

Currently, ICE manages about 2.5 – 2 million to 3 million people, who are going through immigration removal proceedings. About half of those people, about 1 million or so, have final orders of removal. And so ICE will focus its resources based on the additional step they will get from the omnibus on those types of cases, as well as criminal aliens that they are tracking through state county and local criminal justice [indiscernible] (40:47). So we’ll start to see the benefits of that through increased apprehensions and increased detentions in the interior part of the United States, not necessarily along the southern border.

Michael B. Kodesch

Analyst, Canaccord Genuity, Inc.    

All right. Yeah. That’s helpful. How about on the ISAP side? Can you help us kind of frame the opportunity set with that? Is it meaningfully above kind of the ramp that we’ve been seeing or would you expect, I guess, electronically monitoring to continue progressing as we’ve seen over the past few quarters?

Ann M. Schlarb

Senior Vice President & President,GEO Care, The GEO Group, Inc.    

I think consistent with what Dave said, you’d see the same type of impact on ISAP as interior enforcement picks up and they begin using the contract the way they had historically. In addition, it will continue to be used as folks are coming over the border. We’re still seeing some there. So it’s averaging out at about a little over 70,000 right now and we anticipate to see it continuing at about that unless anything changes with the dynamics going on with ICE.

Michael B. Kodesch

Analyst, Canaccord Genuity, Inc.    

Great. That’s really helpful. I’ll jump back in the queue if anything else. Thanks again guys.

Operator

Thank you. And the next question comes from Tobey Sommer with SunTrust.

Tobey Sommer

Analyst, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.    

Thank you. A follow-up on your ICE commentary. Does a change or, I guess, an introduction of more answers on interior enforcement – does that change the agency’s geographic preference as far as incremental bed demand? In other words, does maybe – does incremental beds not need to be or are they not desired to be located near the border? Thank you.

David J. Venturella

Senior Vice President—Business Development, The GEO Group, Inc.    

I think as ICE deploys more resources to the larger metropolitan areas within the United States, I think the bed needs will be closer to those sources. So yes, it will be less needs along the border. If the rate of border crossings and apprehensions remain low, then the need will shift to the interior part of the United States.

Tobey Sommer

Analyst, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.    

An additional question on ICE, could you refresh us about how increased either border or interior enforcement by ICE could impact activity levels at the other two federal agencies, U.S. Marshals and the Bureau of Prisons? Thank you.

David J. Venturella

Senior Vice President—Business Development, The GEO Group, Inc.    

Well, I think any enforcement by federal law enforcement agencies could generate more prosecutions, convictions, and then eventual detention in the federal system. I think that the Attorney General’s recent announcement regarding the prosecution of criminal aliens would apply to all of the federal agencies. And so, we will monitor the impact of that new policy directive. But certainly, any increase in law enforcement activity could generate additional apprehensions and then eventually detention.

Tobey Sommer

Analyst, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.    

Thanks. And George, I’m kind of interested on your perspective relative to real estate solutions where customers – you talked about replacement of facilities as part of the prepared remarks. What do you think the prospects are now to – for the company to be able to kind of push something past the finish line this year? And how do you feel about those kind of opportunities now versus a year ago, for example? Thanks.

George C. Zoley

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Founder & Director, The GEO Group, Inc.    

Are you speaking at the federal level or at the state level?

Tobey Sommer

Analyst, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.    

Both, frankly. Just for the entire market, not one specific [ph] customer category (44:59).

George C. Zoley

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Founder & Director, The GEO Group, Inc.    

Well, at the federal level, I think the agencies, ICE in particular, are looking for modern facilities that meet their latest detention standards. Our Houston award recently is an indication of that objective where our new facility will replace an existing much older facility that’s, I think, three decades old. Our new facility is a two-story building that cost $117 million and will probably be the state-of-the-art ICE processing center for the country. At the state level, we’re seeing more state procurements that involve replacement-type facilities. David, I would defer to you on that.

David J. Venturella

Senior Vice President-Business Development, The GEO Group, Inc.    

Yes. Just to expand on that, we are seeing these opportunities increase and in this year in particular, and just looking at the age of the facilities throughout the country and the challenges, the fiscal challenges, the state budgets, we’re hopeful that additional opportunities will come out over the next couple of years.

Tobey Sommer

Analyst, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.    

And my question. Okay, go ahead.

George C. Zoley

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Founder & Director, The GEO Group, Inc.    

Also regarding interior enforcement, I think that’s going to mean often a consolidation play on the part of the federal agencies where they will desire to have newly constructed facilities in northern and eastern portions of the country where they’ve been previously been serviced by local county jails. As their detention population increases in those geographical areas, they’re going to want larger more comprehensive facilities with judge’s chambers, office space for the ICE employees. So we still see more consolidation opportunities that lead to more new facilities at the federal level in particular.

Tobey Sommer

Analyst, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.    

Thank you. Last question for me. If this continues to play out, which seems like higher demand at the federal, as well as state level and some of your available and idle capacity gets soaked up along with industry idle and available capacity, do you think that pricing in per diems could start to grow a little bit more quickly as there is kind of less available space for customers to look at? I’m curious about your perspective on the pricing over the next two, three years.

George C. Zoley

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Founder & Director, The GEO Group, Inc.    

Well, anything built in the north and the east is going to cost more than it has been costing in the south from a construction standpoint, from a wage standpoint. Remember, the federal contracts in particular carry with them a federal wage determination that’s issued by the Department of Labor and we are required to pay those wage rates and the wage rates in the north and the east are much higher than the wage rates in south, as well as construction costs. So yes, we expect the per diem rates to be triple-digit for the north and the east.

Tobey Sommer

Analyst, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.    

And do you think underlying pricing with kind of annual price changes may be more rapid rather than just commenting on sort of the revenue mix shift based on new demand in more expensive geographies?

George C. Zoley

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Founder & Director, The GEO Group, Inc.    

Well, the pricing feature I’m most pleased with is a growing number of fixed price contracts by ICE, by the BOP, by the Marshals Service. That doesn’t leave us exposed to census fluctuations.

Tobey Sommer

Analyst, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.    

Okay. Thank you very much.

George C. Zoley

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Founder & Director, The GEO Group, Inc.    

They are guaranteed on a monthly basis regardless of size.

Tobey Sommer

Analyst, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.    

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] And the next question comes from Yinyan Ibanez from Philadelphia Financial.

Yinyan Ibanez

Analyst, Philadelphia Financial

Hi, thank you. I have a follow-up question on ICE. With the incremental budget just recently passed, how should we think about that could translate into incremental bed counts from ICE and the timing of contract awards from ICE, and as well as how much monthly share you think GEO can enjoy from these incremental contract awards? Thank you.

George C. Zoley

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Founder & Director, The GEO Group, Inc.

Well, we discussed previously that the budget provides for an additional 5,000 beds. Presently, GEO is the largest provider to ICE. We have, I would say, approximately 25% of all of the detention bed capacity around the country on behalf of ICE. And we would expect to achieve at least that percentage of future opportunities.

Yinyan Ibanez

Analyst, Philadelphia Financial

Do we have any ideas of timing of the contract awards?

George C. Zoley

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Founder & Director, The GEO Group, Inc.    

I would think it would begin within the next quarter.

Yinyan Ibanez

Analyst, Philadelphia Financial

Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. And the next question comes from Kevin McClure with Wells Fargo Securities.

Kevin A. McClure

Analyst, Wells Fargo Securities LLC    

Good morning. Thanks for taking my questions. Can you remind us what percentage of detainees at your facilities would be considered new arrivals or people who are recently picked up at the border? The border patrol statistics suggest that the new administration’s immigration policies may be deterring some attempted crossings. So I’m wondering to what extent that’s being reflected in the occupancy stats in Q1 or the sequential decline in occupancy over Q4 in some regions?

George C. Zoley

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Founder & Director, The GEO Group, Inc.    

We don’t have that kind of information available to us unfortunately. I can’t answer that question.

Kevin A. McClure

Analyst, Wells Fargo Securities LLC    

Got it. Okay. And then, one follow-up on the ISAP program. How long is the average participant in that program monitored? Is it indefinite as long as they’re in the states? Or is there like a defined sunset period? Thanks.

Ann M. Schlarb

Senior Vice President & President,GEO Care, The GEO Group, Inc.    

That’s totally up to the ICE officer to make that decision about supervision. There are different levels of supervision. They can escalate and deescalate from case management to technology. And it’s all on the agent to make that decision and determine somewhat by going through that immigration court process and following the immigration court order. So the customer makes that decision.

Kevin A. McClure

Analyst, Wells Fargo Securities LLC

Got it. I appreciate the time. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. And there are no more questions at the present time. So at this time, I would like to turn the call to management for any closing comments.

George C. Zoley

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Founder & Director, The GEO Group, Inc.

Okay. Well, thank you, everyone for joining us on this call, and we look forward to addressing you in our next quarterly conference call. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. The conference has concluded. Thank you for attending today’s presentation. You may now disconnect.