GEO Group founder George Zoley's immigrant story contrasts with company's ICE detention controversies
By
Ray Sanchez
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Summary
The article examines George Zoley, founder and CEO of The GEO Group (a private prison company managing over 20 ICE detention facilities), who testified before Congress in 2020 about his immigrant background. Zoley was born in 1950 in a remote Greek village without plumbing or electricity and came to the US via Ellis Island in 1953. The article contrasts his personal immigrant success story with his company's controversial role in detaining and allegedly mistreating ICE detainees, highlighting the irony of an immigrant-founded company being accused of mistreating other immigrants.
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Zoley, the CEO and executive chairman of private prison firm The GEO Group, was born in 1950 in a house with no plumbing or electricity in the remote town of Florina in northwestern Greece
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