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As of August 12, 2010, Cornell Companies Inc. was acquired by The GEO Group, Inc. Cornell Companies, Inc. provides correctional, detention, educational, rehabilitation, and treatment services outsourced by federal, state, county, and local government agencies for adults and juveniles in the United States. It operates in three divisions: Adult Secure Services, Abraxas Youth and Family Services, and Adult Community-Based Services. The Adult Secure Services division offers security incarceration and detention services; confinement of juveniles adjudicated as adults; facility design, construction, and operation; education courses; healthcare services, including medical, dental, vision, psychiatr...

As of August 12, 2010, Cornell Companies Inc. was acquired by The GEO Group, Inc. Cornell Companies, Inc. provides correctional, detention, educational, rehabilitation, and treatment services outsourced by federal, state, county, and local government agencies for adults and juveniles in the United States. It operates in three divisions: Adult Secure Services, Abraxas Youth and Family Services, and Adult Community-Based Services. The Adult Secure Services division offers security incarceration and detention services; confinement of juveniles adjudicated as adults; facility design, construction, and operation; education courses; healthcare services, including medical, dental, vision, psychiatric, and individual and group counseling services; substance abuse counseling; life skills training; religious opportunities and culturally sensitive programs; food and laundry services; and recreational activities, including exercise programs. The Abraxas Youth and Family Services division provides residential, detention, shelter care, and community-based services, as well as educational, rehabilitation, and treatment programs to juveniles between the ages of 10 and 18. The Adult Community-Based Services division offers community-based services, including temporary housing, employment assistance, anger management instruction, personal finance management training, academic opportunities, vocational training, and substance abuse or addiction counseling to parolees and probationers. It also provides community-based treatment services, such as short-term and long-term residential care, counseling, HIV/AIDS testing, counseling and prevention education, substance abuse and addiction testing, detoxification, and methadone maintenance. Cornell Companies, Inc. was formerly known as Cornell Corrections, Inc. and changed its name to Cornell Companies, Inc. in May 2000. The company was incorporated in 1991 and is based in Houston, Texas.

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