Serco is a UK based multinational company, with many fingers in many pies. The Guardian has called them “The biggest company you’ve never heard of.”
Serco sees profit in many things, including the private prison of the UK and Australia. Are you caught in the web?
The wikipedia profile supplies many valuable news sources for further learning.
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December 20, 2009 at 6:08 pm
jamblichus
Their subsidiary SI International (check out their page on Crocodyl.org) provides support for the NSA and DIA too… This growing privatisation of both intelligence and domestic policing/detention is an alarming trend indeed.
December 23, 2009 at 1:49 am
Richard
They used to run my ride to work (Manchester’s Metrolink) and my lunch provider (franchised in-house catering). They were dark and unforgiving overlords in both contexts!
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