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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-137828"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GEO"
cik: "0000923796"
company_name: "GEO GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2025-06-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T17:55:05.086841+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GEO Group sells Lawton Correctional Facility to Oklahoma for $312M; expects close July 25, 2025

## Summary
- Sale price of $312M for Lawton Correctional Facility; expected close July 25, 2025.
- Net proceeds to be used to pay down debt and for general corporate purposes.
- Executive Chairman George C. Zoley calls transaction a significant deleveraging event.
- GEO owns over 52,000 beds across company-owned facilities; sale reflects intrinsic value.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-137828
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GEO
- cik: 0000923796
- company_name: GEO GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2025-06-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312525137828/0001193125-25-137828-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312525137828/d936802d8k.htm

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