GEO GROUP INC

The Board of Directors believes that the virtual meeting format provides the opportunity for participation by a broader group of our shareholders, while reducing the costs associated with planning, holding and arranging logistics for anin-person meeting. The virtual meeting format enables shareholders to participate fully, and equally, from any location around the world, at no cost. It also reduces the environmental impact of our annual meeting. We designed the format of our annual meeting to ensure that our shareholders who attend our annual meeting will be afforded the same rights and opportunities to participate as they would at anin-person meeting and to enhance shareholder access, participation and communication through online tools. Members of senior management and our directors will also attend the annual meeting.

Date and Time. The annual meeting will be held “virtually” through a live audio webcast on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. There will be no physical meeting location. The annual meeting will only be conducted via an audio webcast.

Access to the Audio Webcast of the Annual Meeting. The live audio webcast of the annual meeting will begin promptly at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Online access to the audio webcast will open approximately thirty minutes prior to the start of the annual meeting to allow time for you to log in and test the computer audio system. We encourage our shareholders to access the annual meeting prior to the start time.

Log in Instructions. To attend the virtual annual meeting, log in at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GEO2025. Shareholders will need their unique control number which appears on the Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials or the proxy card (printed in the box and marked by the arrow). In the event that you do not have a control number, please contact your broker, bank, or other nominee as soon as possible and no later than April 15, 2025, so that you can be provided with a control number and gain access to the annual meeting.

Submitting Questions to the virtual Annual Meeting. Shareholders may submit questions in writing on the day of or during the annual meeting on www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GEO2025. Shareholders will need their unique control number which appears on their Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials or the proxy card (printed in the box and marked by the arrow).

As part of the annual meeting, we will hold a Q&A session, during which we intend to answer all questions submitted during the annual meeting in accordance with the annual meeting’s Rules of Conduct and Procedures which are pertinent to the Company and the annual meeting matters, as time permits. In order to ensure that as many shareholders as possible are able to ask questions or make a comment during the Q&A period, each shareholder will be permitted no more than two questions or comments. In order to ensure questions are compiled in a timely manner for the Q&A session, we ask that any shareholder wishing to ask a question during the annual meeting do so as soon as possible and prior to the conclusion of the presentation of the proposals. Additionally, we value and welcome the views, questions and constructive comments of our shareholders, but the purpose of the annual meeting will be observed and questions or comments will not be addressed that are determined to be irrelevant or inappropriate, including those that are: irrelevant to the business of the annual meeting or GEO’s business, derogatory references that are not in good taste, unduly prolonged, substantially repetitious of questions or comments made by other persons, or related to personal grievances.

Questions and answers to any such questions that were addressed during the annual meeting and the questions and answers that were not addressed during the annual meeting due to time constraints will be published following the annual meeting on the Company’s website at www.geogroup.com under the links “Investor Relations” — “Resources” — “Corporate Governance.” Questions and answers will be grouped by topic and substantially similar questions will be grouped and answered once. The questions and answers will remain available until the 2026 Proxy Statement is filed.

Technical Assistance. Beginning 30 minutes prior to the start of and during the virtual annual meeting, Broadridge will have a support team ready to assist shareholders with any technical difficulties they may have accessing or hearing the virtual meeting.

If you encounter any difficulties accessing the virtual meeting during thecheck-in or annual meeting time, please reach out to Broadridge’s technical support team using the contact information available on the virtual meeting website at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GEO2025.

Voting shares prior to and at the virtual annual meeting. Shareholders may vote their shares atwww.proxyvote.com prior to the day of the virtual annual meeting or at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GEO2025 on the day of and during the virtual annual meeting.

Availability of live webcast to officers, directors, employees and other constituents; Replay. The live audio webcast will be available to not only our shareholders, but also our officers, directors, employees and other constituents. A replay of the annual meeting will be made publicly available 24 hours after the annual meeting at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GEO2025.