In the capitalist world, you don't have to make a success to increase your take home pay.
Take Marks & Spencer, once the gold medallist of the stock exchange. Sales in its chain of high street shops in Britain" and overseas have dropped to catas trophic levels. Shares have crashed. those in charge of the business during this period of down-turn would suffer. Not a bit of it. Gur Motracken. M&S's director of overseas loss-making European end of the business, closed down with the loss of more than 3000 jobs, is rewarded with a prison operator, the Corrections Corporation of America, is in trouble. The Corporation imprisons 61,000 people in the US. Three years ago its share price was nearly S45. Today hey are worth less than S1, a 98% drop.
In Alabama, the Talullah juvenile prison was recently re-taken by the state, following its anure as a privatisca operation. But, while it is state, it is still owned by pri-