The GEO Group, Inc. announced that the U.S. Marshals Service has exercised the current contract option period to continue to utilize the 770-bed Western Region Detention Facility in San Diego, California, which is effective through September 30, 2023. The existing contract also has two additional two-year contract option periods, which if exercised by the USMS, would be effective through September 30, 2025 and September 30, 2027, respectively. GEO's Western Region Detention Facility contract with the USMS had been operating under a 90-day contract extension which was scheduled to end on June 30, 2022.