Good morning and welcome to the GEO Group Second Quarter 2016 Earnings Conference Call [Operator Instructions]. I would now like to turn the conference over to Pablo Paez, Vice President of Corporate Relations. Please go ahead.

Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us for today's discussion of the GEO Group's second quarter 2016 earnings results. With us today is George Zoley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Brian Evans, Chief Financial Officer; Ann Schlarb, President of GEO Care; and David Donahue, President of GEO Corrections & Detention. This morning we will discuss our second quarter results and current business development activities. We will conclude the call with a question-and-answer session. This conference call is also being webcast live on our website at www.geogroup.com. Today we will discuss non-GAAP basis information. A reconciliation from non-GAAP basis information to GAAP basis results is included in the press release and supplemental disclosure we issued this morning. Additionally, much of the information we will discuss today, including the answers we give in response to your questions, may include forward-looking statements regarding our beliefs and current expectations with respect to various matters. These forward-looking statements are intended to fall within the Safe Harbor provisions under securities laws. Our actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors contained in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including the Form 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K reports. With that, please allow me to turn this call over to our Chairman and CEO George Zoley. George?

Good morning to everyone and thank you for joining us on this call. We are very pleased with our strong second quarter results and outlook for the balance of the year. Our robust financial performance reflects continued growth in our diversified business segments as well as improved occupancy in a number of our facilities, which is reflective of the ongoing demand across our real estate portfolio. Our year-over-year growth has been driven by the activation of several important projects by our business units of GEO Corrections and Detention in GEO Care. Over the past year GEO Corrections and Detention has activated more than 8,000 beds at five facilities across five different states. These projects include the reactivation of two company owned facilities in Oklahoma in Michigan. The opening of two company owned expansions in California and Texas and the assumption of the management at the Kingman Prison in Arizona. Our GEO Care business unit has also experienced significant growth over the last year with our reentry in community supervision divisions, growing their existing market shares. Additionally, over the last several quarters, GEO Care has implemented a new program under partnership with the Department of Homeland Security for the provision of community based case management services for families going through the immigration review process. This program is represented of GEO Care’s leadership in the provision of community based and case management services through our comprehensive GEO Continuum of Care. Internationally, we’re continuing to develop the $650 million Ravenhall Correctional Facility for the State of Victoria in Australia, which as we have discussed in the past will include an $88 million investment by GEO. The facility remains on schedule for reactivation in the fourth quarter of 2017, and we will begin operating the facility under a 25-year contract following its completion. Once operational, the Ravenhall facility is expected to generate approximately $75 million in annual revenues and will be the premier GEO Continuum of Care offender rehabilitation facility in the world. All of these projects underscore the diversified nature of our services and our ability to deliver real estate and programmatic solutions across the entire spectrum of corrections, detention, community reentry, and offender rehabilitation services. As the world's largest provider of detention in correctional services in prison as well as in the community, we remain focused on combining investments in government infrastructure with best-in-class social services. Our financial performance continues to be underpinned by our company's diversified platform of real estate and programmatic services, which has allowed us to capture growth opportunities across multiple market segments. The strength of this platform has positioned us to continuously enhance value for our shareholders. We are proud that our continued earnings and cash flow growth has allowed us to grow our diversified dividend payments to currently pay the highest dividend in our industry of $2.60 per share on an annualized basis. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Brian Evans.

Thank you, George, and good morning to everyone. As disclosed in our press release today, we reported adjusted funds from operations for the second quarter of 2016 of $0.91 per share, which represents a 17% year-over-year increase. We reported adjusted EPS for the second quarter 2016 of $0.53 per share, which represents a 23% year-over-year increase. Our adjusted EPS excludes a loss on extinguishment of debt associated with our April bond offering and the tender offer for our 6.58 senior notes, which we’re due in 2021. Our revenues for the second quarter of 2016 increased to approximately $548 million from $446 million a year ago. Our construction revenue for the second quarter 2016 was approximately $72 million. As a reminder, our construction revenue is related to our Ravenhall project in Australia and has a little or no margin. For the second quarter of 2016, we reported NOI of approximately $138 million or a 14% year-over-year increase. Compared to second quarter of 2015, our second quarter 2016 results reflect the reactivation of the 1940-bed Great Plains and the 1748-bed North Lake Correctional Facilities in June of 2015. The activation of the 640-bed expansion of the Adelanto detention facility in July of 2015, the activation of the 626-bed expansion of the Karnes residential center in December 2015, the assumption of operations at the 3,400-bed Kingman Arizona prison in December 2015, the new GEO Care contract with the Department of Homeland Security for case management services in November 2015, and $72 million in construction revenue compared to $20 million in construction revenue for the second quarter of 2015. These revenues for both periods are associated with our Ravenhall Prison Project in Australia. Moving to our outlook for the balance of the year, we have increased our full-year AFFO guidance to a range of…

Thanks, Brian, and good morning to everyone. I’d like to address recent project activations, major contract rebuilds, and select publicly known business development opportunities. GEO is the largest detention operator for the U.S. Federal Government agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, more commonly referred to as ICE and the U.S. Marshal Service. Our business relationship with these three federal agencies now spans three decades. Additionally, we own and/or manage correctional facilities for 10 states including Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Vermont, Virginia, and Indiana. Our business relationships with our state customers began in the mid-1980s and now involve more than 20 facilities that are almost all medium security or higher. With respect to international business, GEO is the only U.S. publicly traded company providing corrections and detention services overseas. We presently operate in the U.K., Australia, and South Africa. As it relates to our recent project activations, during the first half of the year, we completed the activation and ramp-up of the 3400-bed Arizona state prison in Kingman under a seven-year managed-only contract with the Arizona Department of Corrections. At full occupancy, the facility is expected to generate net annualized revenues to GEO of approximately $49 million. Moving to our company-owned Karnes ICE Residential Center for which we completed a $32 million expansion in the fourth quarter of last year. As you may remember, the center began operating with the new fixed monthly payment under a new five-year contract, which was effective on November 1st of last year, resulting in approximately $57 million in annualized revenues. As we have updated you during prior calls, we had previously submitted an application to the State of Texas for the licensing of a facility as a family residential center. During the month of May,…

Thank you, Dave, and good morning everyone. As you may remember, our GEO Care segment is comprised of four divisions. Our GEO reentry division manages 21 halfway houses totaling over 3,000 beds and over 60-day reporting centers nationwide with the ability to serve approximately 4,000 participants. Our youth services division oversees 12 residential facilities with approximately 1,300 beds and seven non-residential programs with approximately 1,200 participants. Our BI division monitors approximately a 142,000 offenders under community supervision, including 102,000 individuals through an array of technology products, including radio frequency, GPS, and alcohol monitoring devices. Finally, our GEO continuum of care division oversees the integration of our industry-leading evidence-based rehabilitation programs both in prison and through our community-based and post-release services. We continue to be enthusiastic about the opportunity to expand our delivery of offender rehabilitation services through the GEO continuum of care. We believe that our focus on improved offender rehabilitations and community reentry programs is in line with current criminal justice reform discussions. We view these discussions as positive and believe these efforts will create growth opportunities for our company. Each of our divisions continue to pursue several new growth opportunities. GEO re-entry continues to work with existing and prospective local and state correctional customers to leverage new opportunities in the provision of community reentry services. These services are provided to real estate and programmatic solutions and residential settings, as well as case management and support services in non-residential day reporting centers. We are pursuing several new opportunities for residential re-entry centers at the state and federal level and for new day reporting centers primarily at the state and local level. These new opportunities total more than $30 million in potential annualized revenues. Our youth services division continues to work towards maximizing the utilization of our existing asset base.…

Thank you, Ann. We are very pleased with our strong financial performance for the second quarter and our outlook for the balance of the year. Our robust year-over-year growth has been driven by the activation of several important projects across our business units of GEO Corrections and Detention and GEO Care. These project activations are representative of our diversified growth platform and our ability to provide tailored real estate management and programmatic solutions across all segments of the Correctional Services spectrum. Our diversified growth and investment strategy has positioned GEO as the world's largest private provider of corrections, detention and community reentry and offender rehabilitation services. We remain focused on the effective allocation of capital to pursue quality growth opportunities. As a REIT, GEO is focused on providing essential real state solutions to government agencies in the fields of detention, corrections and post release facilities. Additionally as a service provider our commitment is to be the world's leader in the delivery of offender rehabilitation and community reentry programs. This commitment is consistent with the criminal justice reform efforts that emphasize rehabilitation and community reentry programs for offenders, which we view as positive for our company as evidenced by the continued growth in our diversified business segments. We are enthusiastic about our ability to deliver improved offender rehabilitation services through our GEO Continuum of Care platform, which we believe gives our company a competitive advantage when pursuing new projects. We believe this unique platform, better positions GEO to capture future growth, enhancing value for our shareholders and allowing us to continue to grow our earnings, cash flows and dividend payments. This concludes our presentation and we would now like to open the call to your questions.

[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Tobey Sommer of SunTrust. Please go ahead.

Thank you. I was curious about your perspective with the housing of illegal immigrant families, then in the news that the court proceedings continuing. You mentioned the child care license. What is the customer saying – is the customer indicating that their intent is to continue to use the facilities that it currently is utilizing in the marketplace?

Yes, we believe that is the case and to give a little bit more background about our Karnes facility – this is George Zoley speaking. From our view there appears to have been a mission change for that facility. It's now a relatively short term facility with an average length of stay of seven days. During those seven days, individuals who are there receive their health care checkups, any treatment necessary, medications, they receive I believe six sets of clothing and they are well taken care of during that time and they coordinate with Ann's group for being placed either on electric monitoring or being resettled to other locations in the country. So in one respect it's almost like a reception center. But it certainly is a processing centers or with a short-term length of stay, nutritional meals, excellent health care and short-term stay the ICE has issued a request for information from other communities where the possible need of another 1,000 beds.

With that shorter stay, is the – are all the services fully utilized like language classes et cetera?

No, there's less emphasis on academic programs as you would imagine for the children because they're for a fairly short period of time, but we still use all the classes, we just can't take them through the full curriculum.

Okay, shifting gears to BI, it looks like there was a lot of growth year-over-year in the quarter. I did miss one number. How many people did you say you have under an array of technology products at this point?

Ann, could you address that.

In the meantime what you're looking up that number, could you speak to the incremental margins of that growth, is incremental margin profitable?

The number of folks that we're monitoring or supervising in the GEO Care division on any given day is about 142,000 and that could be on GPS, RF or suite of alcohol units, [indiscernible] or through just our call center.

Would be incremental margins associated with that 23% growth year-over-year be kind of higher than the BI on average? Can you talk about that?

Tobey, this is Brian. A lot of that growth as we mentioned before has been an increase in utilization of the Intensive Supervision and Appearance Program which is the ISAP contract we refer to it as ISAP contract with ICE. I think George mentioned how ICE has increased utilization of that in connection with the detention at the residential facility as well as our other ICE facilities, if people are released from those they may using Intensive Supervision Appearance Program or there's another contract we have, which is the case management program where they may be using those services as well. So that, both of those contracts are in and there's been some significant increase in the utilization of those contract over the last 12 months.

Thanks. Two other questions for me, one if you could give some color on the North Lake facility and the opportunity within the state of Michigan as well as comment on whether the facility is profitable today. And then do you expect to renew your business under the CAR 16 procurement. Thank you.

Sure I’ll touch on some of that and then I think Dave can give some color on what's going on with the Michigan facility, with the state of Michigan. But I think as we've addressed before the primary customer there is the state of Vermont we have a contract with the state of Vermont for up almost 700 beds. Currently it's about 300 to 350-bed, it fluctuates in that range that they're utilizing. As a consequences as we said before the facility is not currently cash flow positive. And we continue to look for additional clients to support the facility. You mentioned the state of Michigan has put forward some legislative effort to explore the possible sale or acquisition or lease of the facility. I will let Dave get some color on that as well as CAR 16.

Thanks Brian. As I indicated in my prepared remarks there were legislative efforts in Michigan to analyze the purchase and or lease of a facility in the jurisdiction. The Michigan Department of Corrections along with the state budget agency are currently involved in due diligence associated with that requirement in the General Assembly. I anticipate that a recommendation for the North Lake facility will be evaluated over the next several weeks and they report back to the General Assembly in mid October, relative to that potential opportunity. As it relates to CAR 16, we are optimistic that our projects will be reviewed favorably for continued use. We have a very good relationship with the Bureau of Prisons and our seven facilities with the 15,000 beds operational performances at the appropriate levels and exceeding our expectations and the client's expectations. So we have no reason to believe that they the client will not view them appropriately on a going forward basis.

Thank you very much. I'll get back to queue.

[Operator Instruction] Our next question comes from Michael Kodish of Canaccord Genuity. Please go ahead.

Hey, Good morning guys. Great quarter, just a couple questions for me, just first of all on the new opportunities, I think we've been seeing a little bit of interest in the leasing – states leasing facility and I was wondering if you guys were seeing any of that in some of your idle facilities?

Well Michael, as Dave just mentioned obviously in the case of the Michigan facility, there’s some interest there around potential leasing the facility. The other facilities that we have that are idle, at the potentials we are also working with the State of Alabama to potentially use the Pierre [ph] facility in Alabama and they’re exploring a number of different ways to utilize that facility that could include a possible lease, it could include the straight operations. We have to see how that works itself out of the next 12 months or so. Our Hudson, Colorado facility which is also idle as you know is a leased facility already. We leased that facility, so our main effort there is to try and reactivate it in the short-term before that lease expires. And then I think overall the opportunities of course lease back type transactions will probably be on existing government assets or new assets that we might construct as Dave mentioned to replace existing assets and then enter into some sort of lease back transaction.

Okay, that’s great color. And then I guess in general on Gad, it’s kind of been a little bit slower on the – seeing some of these RFPs kind of materialize, I mean are you guys kind of seeing that this is a result of the Presidential election or is that more from a pricing kind of point of view, why are we seeing maybe a little bit of a slowdown?

I think they want to make their decisions speak for at the end of the fiscal year. So that puts them into August, September timelines.

Okay, that’s helpful. And then on the BI side of things, I was kind of wondering what your market share is today and I’m wondering what’s out there as maybe a bit fragmented, if there be one-off acquisitions maybe like several existent, kind of where can that go.

Mike, it’s very depending on if you look how you look at the units, but I think in total we’re clearly the largest and we’re 30% of the market approximately. There are a number of different other players out there in the market and if opportunities present themselves we might look at them. But you have to realize we think we have the best technology so, this is a technology business, and some of the growth in the contracts that we’re seeing are takeaways from other service providers and I think it’s because of the investments that we’ve made in the technology. And so it’s not necessarily the case that we look to acquire somebody for the technology is a potential maybe for the business, but we have to keep in mind that we’re making these investments in the technology to grow our market share.

Sure, that makes a lot of sense. And then just finally, Ann, I think you mentioned ISAP or I just want to go up to about 53,000 participants and I think that was their schedule. Where we are today and the what was their timeline to get into that 53,000?

Their timeline was at the end of their government fiscal year, so we are ahead of their timeline and we’re just a bit over 56,000 today.

Wonderful, that’s all from me. Thanks a bunch guys, great quarter.

Thank you.

This concludes our question-and-answer session. I’ll now turn the conference back over to George Zoley for any closing remarks.

Well, thank you all for joining us on this conference and we look forward to speaking to you on the third quarter conference call as well. Thank you.

The conference is now concluded. Thank you for attending today’s presentation. You may now disconnect your lines. Have a great day.