This included divesting itself of its GEO Care subsidiary, which provided medical and mental health services through government contracts, including at some prisonsandjails.
Any entity can and has been a target, even law enforcement agencies andjailsandprisons, where inmates, correctional officers, teachers and senior staff have been caught in a variety of schemes to steal, corrupt, defraud, extort and improperly obtain or divert assets and use their influence for personal gain.
"The standards we establish today reflect the fact that sexual assault crimes committed within our correctional facilities can have devastating consequences for individual victims and for communities far beyond our jailsandprisons, " Attorney General Eric Holder said in a written statement.