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Wackenhut Receives Saturn's Outstanding Achievement Award

8 October 1999

Wackenhut Receives Saturn's Outstanding Achievement Award For Fourth Consecutive Year

    PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Oct. 7 -- The Wackenhut Corporation
(NYSE: WAK WAKB), a global provider of security-related services, received
Saturn's Quality Recognition Award and Saturn's Outstanding Achievement
Recognition Award from Saturn Corporation during an awards ceremony in
Nashville, TN.
    At this year's event, called "Coming Home to Quality," The Wackenhut
Corporation was presented Saturn's Quality Recognition Award for meeting
stringent quality criteria; and Saturn's Outstanding Achievement Recognition
Award for superior performance in the areas of quality, service, and price.
    Alan Bernstein, executive vice president of the Wackenhut Corporation and
president of its North American Operations Group, said, "Wackenhut is honored
to provide Saturn with the highest-quality personnel and services.  Our
eleven-year partnership with Saturn is one which Wackenhut is very proud,
particularly since we continue to measure up to Saturn's stringent criteria
for quality and service.  Wackenhut has received Saturn's Quality Recognition
Award for the past five years and the prestigious Outstanding Achievement
Recognition Award for the past four years.  We are very proud to be recognized
as a member of this elite group."
    The Wackenhut Corporation ( http://www.wackenhut.com ) is a leading international
provider of business and support services to major corporations and a wide
range of industrial and commercial customers.  Wackenhut also provides
employee leasing and temporary staffing, facility management, food service,
education and training, and supplementary police, fire and emergency services.
The company is a leader in the privatization of public services for municipal,
state and federal agencies.  It has operations throughout the United States
and in over 50 other countries on six continents.
    The Wackenhut Corporation trades under two symbols on the New York Stock
Exchange, the Series A Common Stock and the Series B Common Stock.  The Series
B Common Stock has no voting rights, but in all other respects is the same as
the Series A Common Stock.
    The Wackenhut Corporation is the majority shareholder in Wackenhut
Corrections Corporation , a global leader in privatized
corrections:  designing, financing, building, and managing correctional and
detention facilities for government agencies.
    This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding future
events and future performance of the company that involve risks and
uncertainties that could materially affect actual results.  Investors should
refer to documents that the company files from time to time with the
Securities and Exchange Commission for a description of certain factors that
could cause actual results to vary from current expectations and forward-
looking statements contained in this press release.  Such filings include,
without limitation, the company's Form 10K, Form 10Q and Form 8K reports.