Videos

​The GEO Group Australia has been selected, as part of the GEO Consortium, to finance, design, build, maintain and operate the new Ravenhall Prison in Melbourne, Victoria. In this video members of the GEO Consortium speak about this world-leading and innovative correctional project, and how Ravenhall Prison will represent a step-change in how correctional facilities contribute to reducing reoffending.

Interested in becoming a correctional officer? GEO's latest video explains it custodial recruitment and selection process. 

Junee Correctional Centre Inmates Graduate
The GEO Group Australia operates Junee Correctional Centre in New South Wales, Australia. Almost 40 inmates graduated from a variety of TAFE courses last week. Hear how student of the year spent his time at Junee learning barista skills to help him gain employment after release. 

Polyfest Celebration at Junee Correctional Centre
The GEO Group Australia operates Junee Correctional Centre in New South Wales, Australia. The annual PolyFest, a celebration of Polynesia culture and heritage, is one of the many cultural events held at Junee Correctional Centre. Prisoner's at Junee learn about, and celebrate their culture, which combined with positive cultural role models, works to break the cycle of reoffending.

What Makes a Man a Man in Contemporary Australia
The GEO Group Australia is working with psychologist and University of Sydney senior lecturer Agi O'Hara to create a 'virtual' mentoring project for men titled What Makes a Man a Man in Contemporary Australia. The project comprises a series of interviews and multi-media resources featuring prominent Australian men. It provides access to the wisdom and experience of these respected public figures and is an ideal resource for those who have not been fortunate enough to have male mentors in their lives. The interviews will be used to develop an innovative mentoring program for prisoners, with GEO tracking its effectiveness in reducing re-offending. This interview on Sunrise explores the development of the project and the inspiration behind it.

A Career in Corrections with GEO
Many GEO employees started their working lives in other industries and had not even considered a career in corrections before applying. For many people correctional work remains a mysterious and somewhat daunting proposition, their perception based largely on TV and film depictions. The reality is somewhat different. In this video GEO people talk about how they became involved in corrections and what a typical working day in a correctional centre is like. Corrections is a challenging, but immensely varied and rewarding field of work. GEO offers the opportunity of a lifelong career, delivering a critical public service with real social value.

Workplace Health and Safety 
Providing correctional services is a demanding and occasionally high-risk activity. In striving to deliver better corrections to support safer communities GEO applies robust and effective work health and safety practices to minimise risk to staff, prisoners and visitors to the correctional centre we operate.

In this video presentation GEO outlines our unique approach to work health and safety; and approach that results in a safe work environment through a common and shared obligation to workplace safety by all persons.

Junee Correctional Centre Welcomes Collingwood’s Andrew Krakouer
GEO Group Australia operates Junee Correctional Centre in New South Wales, Australia. In this episode of Fox Footy the GEO-operated Junee Correctional Centre hosts a visit from Collingwood forward Andrew Krakouer to launch an innovative program aimed at helping Indigenous prisoners break free from the cycle of crime.

Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre working with the RSPCA
GEO Group Australia operates Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre in Queensland, Australia. This media report details Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre's inspiring partnership with the RSPCA which involves prisoners helping the RSPCA in its vital work by training and supporting hard-to-place dogs.

Who is GEO looking for? 
The GEO Group Australia’s Director Employee and Industrial Relations, Pierre Langford, discusses the attributes GEO seek when it recruits and the skills required to work in the demanding corrections environment. The GEO Group Australia has a workforce of more than 1500 people across a wide range of custodial and non-custodial positions. For more information and to view current vacancies and apply online, visit the Careers section of this website.

What's it like to work for GEO?
The GEO Group Australia’s Director Employee and Industrial Relations, Pierre Langford, discusses the challenges and rewards involved in working for GEO, and the culture every new employee experiences when they join the GEO team. 
The GEO Group Australia has a workforce of over 1,500 staff working across a wide range of professions and disciplines. 

Governance - the GEO approach
Keith Ketheeswaran - Director Governance and Performance Assurance for The GEO Group Australia discusses the expectations on GEO to keep the community, its staff and the prisoners in its care safe and secure, and the governance arrangements that deliver on this promise. The GEO Group Australia is the largest provider of outsourced correctional facilities in Australia, with facilities across New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria

Risk - the GEO approach
Keith Ketheeswaran - Director Governance and Performance Assurance for The GEO Group Australia discusses the unique risks posed by the correctional environment, and how GEO leads the world through its unique and automated customised management of correctional risk. The GEO Group Australia is the largest provider of outsourced correctional facilities in Australia, with facilities across New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. 

Performance Measurement - the GEO approach
Keith Ketheeswaran - Director Governance and Performance Assurance for The GEO Group Australia discusses how GEO measures its performance, and the benefits of a sound and reliable performance measurement mechanism. The GEO Group Australia is the largest provider of outsourced correctional facilities in Australia, with facilities across New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. 

Junee Correctional Centre Wagga City Rugby Male Choir 
Junee welcomed the Wagga City Rugby Male Choir into its outstanding cultural centre for a series of singing workshops with the correctional centre's offenders. In this media report, choir members, offenders and Junee Correctional Centre staff talk about this innovative initiative, and how it is helping change attitudes amongst its participants.

Junee Correctional Centre welcomes new recruits
GEO Group Australia operates Junee Correctional Centre in New South Wales, Australia. Junee recently welcomed 14 newly qualified correctional officer recruits upon completion of their nine-week pre-service training course. This media report includes interviews with recruits, trainers and senior Junee staff. GEO offers employment opportunities in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland and recruits from diverse backgrounds including those both with and without experience in the criminal justice sector. 

Fulham Correctional Centre Horse Drawn Hearse
GEO Group Australia operates Fulham Correctional Centre in Victoria, Australia. This TV News broadcast shows the work undertaken by prisoners to build a horse drawn hearse. This project was completed as part of the prison's educational program, with several prisoners gaining TAFE qualifications. 

Fulham Correctional Centre Prisoner Career Expo
A trade and career expo has been held at Fulham Correctional Centre to help prisoners connect with training providers and employers to ready themselves for a life beyond the bars. Finding and holding down a job is recognised as being crucial in a released prisoner's chances of avoiding re-offending, and Fulham Correctional Centre provides a range of training, education and work opportunities to support this. In this ABC photo-documentary interviews with Fulham Correctional Centre's Industries Manager Ian Riley, and Janice Miller Program Manager at Wise Employment sheds light on the work that goes on in the correctional centre to get prisoners into work and the role that the trade and career expo plays in this.

Fulham Correctional Centre Furniture for Gippsland Hospital 
GEO Group Australia operates Fulham Correctional Centre in Victoria, Australia. This TV News broadcast shows the work undertaken by prisoners to build six outdoor dining tables, which were donated to the local Gippsland Hospital. Prisoners built the outdoor furniture as part of their education program.
The partnership between Fulham Correctional Centre and Gippsland Hospital is one of the many partnerships GEO Group Australia has formed with local community groups. Partnerships such as these allow the prisoners to learn new skills, give back to their community, and break the cycle of re-offending.

Junee Correctional Centre Education and Training
Inmates at Junee Correctional Centre have the opportunity to complete their secondary education then continue with tertiary studies. This WIN television news report features an interview with a current inmate who recently completed his Year 10 Certificate equivalent and is now working towards tertiary building qualifications to help him find work upon release. Education assists inmates to make a positive change in their lives and is important in breaking the cycle of re-offending.

What Makes a Man a Man in Contemporary Australia
The GEO Group Australia is working with psychologist and University of Sydney senior lecturer Agi O'Hara to create a 'virtual' mentoring project for men titled What Makes a Man a Man in Contemporary Australia. The project comprises a series of interviews and multi-media resources featuring prominent Australian men. It provides access to the wisdom and experience of these respected public figures and is an ideal resource for those who have not been fortunate enough to have male mentors in their lives. The interviews will be used to develop an innovative mentoring program for prisoners, with GEO tracking its effectiveness in reducing re-offending. This video features excerpts from eight interviews including the thoughts of restorative justice advocate Terry O'Connell, Mad Bastards lead actor Dean Daley-Jones and sports commentator and media personality Peter Fitzsimons.

Junee Correctional Centre Cystic Fibrosis Charity Rally 
GEO Group Australia operates Junee Correctional Centre in New South Wales, Australia. This TV News broadcast shows the work undertaken by prisoners to repair and paint a damaged Holden for use in the Cystic Fibrosis Charity Rally. The Centre aims to raise $20,000 for the charity

Social Finance Forum
GEO Group Australia sponsored and presented a keynote speech at the inaugural Social Finance Forum, hosted by UNSW's The Centre for Social Impact. GEO's Executive General Manager, Risk and Compliance Keith Ketheeswaran discusses "Designing Outcomes: Opportunities and Risks", and highlights some of GEO's innovations and results in lowering recidivism. 

Junee Correctional Centre Habitat for Humanity
GEO Group Australia operates Junee Correctional Centre in New South Wales, Australia. In this TV media report prisoners talk about Junee's innovative partnership with Habitat for Humanity which sees offenders constructing houses for under-privileged families at the correctional centre.

Junee Correctional Centre Colourful Dreaming
 GEO Group Australia operates Junee Correctional Centre in New South Wales, Australia. In this TV media report Junee's innovative partnership with Shine for Kids is examined which sees Aboriginal art and culture used as a vehicle to reconnect incarcerated fathers with their children through the Colourful Dreaming program.

Junee Colour in Your Life
Junee welcomed host Graeme Stevenson and the team of the TV series Colour in Your Life into the correctional centre to film an episode of the show. Inmates had the opportunity to learn water colour art techniques from Graeme, acrylic techniques from artist Manny Petravakis, and colour experimentation from artist Mealie Batchelor. Held in Junee's outstanding cultural centre with inmate artwork as a backdrop the initiative was one of the many innovative ways in which GEO is seeking to address inmates' offending behaviour and support local communities through reparation.

Social Benefit Bonds New South Wales I 
GEO Group Australia have been selected by the NSW Government to run Australia's first Social Benefit Bond. Working with Mission Australia and Social Finance GEO will provide services to reduce recidivism by an agreed amount. These services will be paid for by private investors who will only see a return on their investment if recidivism is lowered by the agreed amount. Payment comes from part of the savings made by Government. Here NSW Treasurer Mike Baird describes the Social Benefit Bond concept

BI Day Reporting Centre Madera County USA 
GEO Group Australia. BI operates a Day Reporting Centre in Madera County for offenders on probation. Offering a highly cost effective solution with a proven ability to reduce recidivism, BI, Madera County Probation staff and offenders talk about their experiences of the program.

Fulham Correctional Centre Together We Are Strong 
GEO Group Australia. Fulham Correctional Centre. Together We Are Strong (2006) is an animated and live action short film made in collaboration with Vietnamese Australian male prisoners at Fulham Correctional Centre. It warns of the dangers of IV drug use and Hepatitis C upon entering and leaving prison. The story follows a single character from a village in Vietnam through a drug bust in Springvale, incarceration and release.

BI Day Reporting Centre Napa County USA 
GEO Group Australia. BI operates a Day Reporting Centre in Napa County for offenders on probation and a jail program. Offering a highly cost effective solution with a proven ability to reduce recidivism, BI, Napa County Probation staff and offenders talk about their experiences of the program

Junee Correctional Centre Habitat for Humanity
GEO Group Australia operates Junee Correctional Centre in New South Wales, Australia. In this TV media report Trevor Coles, Junee's Offender Services Manager, talks about Junee's innovative partnership with Habitat for Humanity which sees offenders constructing houses for under-privileged families at the correctional centre.

BI Day Reporting Centres Reduce Prison Overcrowding 
GEO Group Australia. BI operates Day Reporting Centres that provide innovative, robust and effective alternatives to prison. Offering a highly cost effective solution with a proven ability to reduce recidivism, reduce demand for prison spaces, and reduce construction costs, customers, staff and offenders talk about their experiences of BI's Day Reporting Centres

BI Cognitive Behavioural Programs 
BI deliver a range of cognitive behavioural programs of proven effectiveness in reducing re-offending. In this video offenders who have participated in the programs talk about their experiences and their aspirations for the future

BI Re-Entry Centres Reduce Re-Offending 
BI operates Re-Entry Centres, providing transitional support for offenders released from prison. With a proven ability to reduce recidivism by over 40% through robust compliance technologies allied to resettlement support, customers, staff and offenders talk about their experiences of BI's Re-Entry Centres

Junee Correctional Centre Habitat for Humanity AUDIO ONLY
GEO Group Australia operates Junee Correctional Centre in New South Wales, Australia. In this media report prisoners talk about Junee's innovative partnership with Habitat for Humanity which sees offenders constructing houses for under-privileged families at the correctional centre.

"We have had a huge boost thanks to The GEO Group who will be providing between 12 to 15 mentors from Junee Correctional facility for some of the education programs which is just fantastic" Department of Education and Communities.