I suppose you're right, but that wasn't the intent. I took the line off thinking off the logical cliff. However, in the US it is common for major inter/nationa

I suppose you're right, but that wasn't the intent. I took the line off thinking off the logical cliff. However, in the US it is common for major inter/national firms to service entire state prison systems. This is surely a representation of the prison industrial complex, and that's what I was getting at. Simply having publicly run prisons does not preclude this type of situation, a major firm holding large contracts and thus having an incentive to grow the criminal population, unless it would be wholly socially and politically unacceptable to do so.