privatized-incarceration

The chapter introduces the Tarkington College, a small institution for slow-learning wealthy youths located by Lake Mohiga in New York. Opposite the college lies a maximum-security prison run for profit by wealthy foreigners, primarily Japanese, who have effectively bought the United States. A massive prison break occurs, with 10,000 hardened criminals crossing the frozen lake to seize the college and take its board members hostage, setting the stage for further chaos and ambitions to conquer the universe.