ICE Bounty Hunting Aided by Geo Group’s Surveillance Work (1)

A private prison operator that’s profited by detaining immigrants in the US is rapidly shifting to offer surveillance tools, capitalizing on the government’s deportation push by selling human-tracking services.

Geo Group Inc. has evolved into US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s largest contractor, winning more than $800 million in business in 2025 alone, according to procurement records reviewed by Bloomberg News. Much of that pays for Geo Group’s prisons and detention centers being put to use for ICE.

In December, Geo Group secured a two-year $121 million contract to surveil and locate suspected undocumented immigrants and report them to ICE’s enforcement ...