What LaSalle Corrections does

LaSalle Corrections is a privately held, family-owned correctional services company founded in 1997 that operates 18 correctional facilities across Louisiana, Texas, and Georgia, with a combined inmate capacity exceeding 13,000 and a workforce of over 1,250 employees. The company provides a vertically integrated portfolio of corrections services including facility design, construction, and financing; minimum to medium-security detention management; armed and secure transportation under USDOT compliance; commissary operations; inmate healthcare; and evidence-based rehabilitation programming including cognitive behavioral therapy, substance abuse treatment (STAR), GED preparation, and work release. Its customer base consists exclusively of government entities, with explicit service relationships with federal agencies (ICE, U.S. Marshals Service, Federal Bureau of Prisons) as well as state and local law enforcement agencies; one named commercial partnership with House of Raeford supports work release rather than core detention revenue. Underlying technology consists of conventional correctional infrastructure — GPS-tracked transport, video surveillance, PREA compliance systems, and clinical EHR for inmate healthcare — rather than proprietary platforms or AI-driven systems.

LaSalle generates revenue through multi-year government contracts structured as managed-services agreements for facility operations, supplemented by transaction-fee revenue from commissary and transport services and professional-services fees for facility design and construction. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, consistent with government procurement norms. The go-to-market motion is direct enterprise B2G field sales targeting law enforcement procurement officials, with no consumer marketing channel of significance; community engagement and recruitment activity function as indirect brand-building. Differentiators emphasized across source material include turn-key project capability (bond and private financing bundled with construction), PREA-compliant zero-tolerance infrastructure, pandemic contingency planning, and a stated family-values operating culture. The company's stated intent is to pursue opportunities throughout the United States beyond its current three-state footprint.

Strategic posture is that of a mid-sized regional operator extending organic footprint through competitive contract bidding, supported by a regional Texas subsidiary (LaSalle Southwest), ecosystem partnerships (Texas A&M University-Texarkana, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals), and industry partnerships for reentry placement. No acquisition history, external funding, leadership changes, or restructuring events are disclosed; the company is described as a family operation with no parent company or institutional investors identified.

Name

LaSalle Corrections

Legal name

LaSalle Corrections

Website

https://lasallecorrections.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

LaSalle Corrections is a privately held, family-owned correctional services provider founded in 1997, operating 18 detention facilities across Louisiana, Texas, and Georgia with 13,000+ inmate capacity and 1,250+ employees, delivering facility management, secure transportation, healthcare, and rehabilitation programming to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Correctional Facility Management

NAICS

Correctional Institutions (922140), Investigation, Guard, and Armored Car Services (56161)

SIC

Services-Detective, Guard & Armored Car Services (7381)

akta.pro primary industry

Correctional Facility Operations (Prisons & Jails) (BPAKANAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Detention Center Operations (Immigration & Administrative Detention) (BPAKANAB)

Keywords

• Correctional facility management
• Inmate rehabilitation programs
• Secure inmate transportation
• Detention center operations
• Correctional facility construction

Headquarters

HQ city

Ruston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Correctional Facility Management Contracts: LaSalle Corrections operates correctional facilities under management contracts with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. Revenue is generated through government-funded contracts for minimum to medium-security detention and correctional services, including facilities management, security, food service, commissary, laundry, transportation, and logistical support.
2. Secure Transportation Services: Revenue generated from providing armed and secure inmate/detainee transportation services to federal agencies (ICE, USMS, BOP) and local/state law enforcement agencies. Services include one-way or roundtrip transport, day and overnight trips, with housing available at correctional centers throughout the southern United States.
3. Commissary Services: LaSalle maintains quality commissary services at each facility where inmates may purchase snacks, hygiene products, writing instruments, and other items using funds contributed by family/friends or credits earned as wages.
4. Facility Finance, Design, and Construction: Revenue derived from providing turn-key correctional facility solutions including finance, design, and construction of new correctional facilities and processing centers for local and state agencies.
5. Inmate Healthcare Services: Revenue from providing professional, quality, and cost-effective medical care to inmates through employed and contracted physicians, nurses, and other medical professionals in a secure setting.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

LaSalle Corrections is a private operator that develops, finances, designs, constructs, and manages correctional facilities for local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. The company delivers turn-key detention solutions including secure inmate transportation, commissary, healthcare, rehabilitation programming, and reentry services across 18 facilities with over 13,000 inmate capacity in the southern United States.

Product overview

LaSalle Corrections operates as a diversified corrections industry service provider offering a unified portfolio of facility development, management, and inmate services. The core offerings span correctional facility design/construction/financing, detention services management, secure transportation, commissary services, and inmate healthcare. These are supported by program modules including ReEntry programs, Work Release, Substance Abuse Treatment, GED/Education, and PREA compliance management. The company currently manages 18 facilities across Louisiana, Texas, and Georgia with over 13,000 inmate capacity.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Detention Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Recidivism rates of offenders who participate in vocational and educational training are lower by as much as 20% to 60% than those who do not participate.
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• House of Raeford (poultry processing plant, Arcadia, LA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLaSalle partners with House of Raeford's poultry processing plant in Arcadia, Louisiana for work release programming. Approximately 100 work release offenders from three LaSalle correctional centers work at the facility. House of Raeford management collaborates with LaSalle on industry-specific workforce solutions, providing testimonials, supply-chain introductions, program development consulting, and logistical support. The partnership is a model for regional industry involvement in offender rehabilitation and has encouraged further development of industry-focused programming to address recidivism.
• Texas A&M University at Texarkana (Liberal Arts Department / Dr. Brian Billings)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLaSalle partners with Dr. Brian Billings and his team at Texas A&M University at Texarkana's Liberal Arts Department for its annual poetry contest. Submitted entries are judged by the university team, and exemplary work is selected for publication in The Aquila Review, the university's literary journal. This partnership provides literary recognition for inmate writers and academic engagement for the university. In the last five years, fourteen (14) authors had their poems/prose published through this program.
• Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals / Monroe Addictive Disorders ClinicminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLaSalle's STAR (Successful Treatment of Addiction and Recovery) program at Richwood Correctional Center is licensed through Louisiana's Department of Health and Hospitals as part of the Monroe Addictive Disorders Clinic. This regulatory partnership enables LaSalle to deliver clinically licensed, year-long substance abuse treatment to inmates.
• Re-entry Policy CouncilminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLaSalle references the Re-entry Policy Council as a source of evidence-based research supporting workforce development and vocational training programs for offenders. LaSalle's program outcomes align with Re-entry Policy Council findings that vocational and educational training reduces recidivism by 20% to 60%.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Trinity Services Group: Trinity Services Group provides inmate food service and commissary programs to correctional facilities. Overlaps with LaSalle's food service and commissary services and serves the same correctional customer base, though as a specialized food-services contractor rather than a facility operator.
• Bob Barker Company: Bob Barker Company provides inmate supplies, commissary services, and rehabilitation programming to correctional facilities. Overlaps with LaSalle's commissary and rehabilitation services and serves the same agency customer base, though as a supplier rather than a facility operator.
• Keefe Group: Keefe Group is a major provider of inmate commissary, technology, and supplies to correctional facilities across the U.S. Comparable to LaSalle's commissary services revenue stream and operates in the same customer base of correctional agencies, though as a third-party supplier rather than a competing facility operator.

Direct peers

• Emerald Correctional Management: Emerald is a private provider of correctional facility management services focused on county and state detention contracts. Directly comparable to LaSalle's local/state government customer segment and facility-management products, though smaller in scale.
• Management & Training Corporation (MTC): MTC is a privately held operator of correctional facilities, detention centers, and educational/vocational programs for inmates. Closely comparable to LaSalle in scope (facility operations plus rehabilitation programming) and in customer base, with a similar mid-market private competitor profile.
• CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America): CoreCivic is one of the largest private operators of correctional and detention facilities in the U.S., offering facility management, inmate transportation, and rehabilitation programs to federal, state, and local agencies. Directly comparable to LaSalle's core detention and corrections services across the same customer base, but at significantly larger scale and as a publicly traded company.
• The GEO Group: GEO Group is a publicly traded diversified provider of correctional, detention, and community-based services, including secure transportation and rehabilitation programming. Operates a similar portfolio of federal (ICE/BOP) and state contracts as LaSalle and is the most direct competitor in the private corrections market.

Emerging players

• Centurion Managed Care: Centurion provides comprehensive correctional healthcare services to state and local government agencies. Directly comparable to LaSalle's inmate healthcare offering and shares the same customer profile, often as a subcontracted vendor to facilities operators like LaSalle.
• Wexford Health Sources: Wexford Health Sources provides outsourced inmate healthcare services to state, local, and federal correctional facilities. Comparable to LaSalle's inmate healthcare services revenue stream and serves the same customer base, though as a focused specialty provider rather than a full facility operator.

Broad incumbents

• Aramark Corrections: Aramark provides food service, commissary, and facility-management services to correctional institutions nationwide. Comparable to LaSalle's food service and commissary revenue streams and serves the same customer base, though as part of a much broader facilities-services portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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