The full name is Reva-Lupton Security Solutions, Incorporated, but people refers to it as Revlup. As of 2073, they're the largest private prison operator in the world. But what makes the company infamous is a small number of them, specifically, the so-called High Threat Incarceration Centers.
Revlup history starts in 2013, as US Marshal Donald Lydecker created the Patriot Eye Company in Des Moines, Iowa. His company was providing support to the Iowa Departement of Corrections to deal with the small but growning number of magically active prisoners. His success quickly attracted attention. By 2015, Patriot Eye had signed contracts with four of the largest private prison operators in the country to transform existing prisons or build new ones to deal with awakened prisoners. The same year the Federal government awarded a Patriot Eye-led consortium the contract to build and run detention centers dedicated to Amerindian tribal insurgents, in Reva, South Dakota, and Lupton, Arizona. The Reva-Lupton Corporation was born. As life conditions in the re-education camps before 2011 were a powerful communication tool for the insurgents, the government heavily publicized a flattering view of Reva and Lupton facilities, keeping the intelligence interrogators work under wrap.
The Reva and Lupton facilities only ran for two years and a half before the Treaty of Denver. During this period, Lydecker established strong ties with federal agencies and the militaries, and corporations like United Oil and JRJ International who were discreetly involved through contractor companies. But his strongest ally probably was senator Steven Oldham, whom Lydecker first met when he was Iowa Attorney General. While the Reva and Lupton sites were closing, the Reva-Lupton Corporation went to become a small but nonetheless key player in US national security. While magicians were still rare, the company had acquired an extensive knowledge of what magiciens could and could not do. In the meantime, Lydecker used the massive influx of cash from federal and private contrats to expand in its original niche, taking over several private prison companies. Through these, Revlup entered the growing UK market, as well as Australia and France.
The next step for Revlup was the launching of its first floating prison in 2028: an automated, modified freigter sailing to the southern hemisphere. This was Revlup solution to deal with the most dangerous prisoners. They were also offering this new solution for prisoners convicted for crime commited within extraterritorial corporations properties. In most cases, corporations favor fines and community services, and try to deliver dangerous criminals to local authorities. Only a minority gets to end in corporate prisons, but that number kept on growing in the past fifty years. Revlup floating prison sank during the 2029 Crash after all contact was lost, but it was only the first of its kind.
In 2030, Donald Lydecker is shortlisted to become the next UCAS Attorney General. Four years later, few politicians will attend his funerals. In the meantime, Lydecker first got a new rival in Clay Wilson, the founder of Lone Star Security Services (LSSS). In 2031, as LSSS aimed to grow large enough to receive extraterritorial privileges (which it succesfully did in 2032), it entered the prisons sector with several acquisitions. Coincidentally or not, around the same time, the FBI started investigating Lydecker ties to the Civella family in Kansas City. One of the investors who helped Lydecker founding Patriot Eye happened to be a Mafia-run company, and the feds also came to be suspicious on how easily Mafia mobsters get to communicate orders in and out of Revlup prisons. Donald Lydecker met his fate in 2034 in Tampa Bay. While his murderer, a small-time criminal, never got caught, the official version has Lydecker as the victim of a vengeance perpretrated by a unidentified prisonner's relative.
Donald's son Victor became the new head of Revlup. His first move was the create a new company, Reva-Lupton Security Solutions, in Zurich, Switzerland, to take over his father's company. The Civellas, as several other shareholders, were left out in the process. By moving out of the UCAS, the group priority also shifted toward Great Britain, Australia and what was now know as the Southern Ocean autonomous prisons program. Revlup used the 53 dead in Atlanta prison during the Night of Rage as the proof the prison industry had to move ahead. The number of magically active and augmented prisoners, as well as the number of megacorporate judicial system inmates were all fastly growing. The Corporate Court wanted to prove extraterritorial corporations were able to hold their ranks as the new world powers, and Revlup prisons were a key element in this.
The Corporate Court still rates Revlup as A Multinational. The corporation never submited for AA status to obtain extraterritorial privileges. So the law of the land applies in Revlup prisons. If you commited a crime in, say, Australia, got convicted by the Australian justice and sent to a Revlup jail, you're going to serve your time in Australian territory, still under Australian laws (that's much more complicated with Lone Star-run jail for instance, which are technically extraterritorial). This works, as long as there is a law of the land to apply. In theory, Revlup corporation facilities in international waters and in Antarctica should carry a flag and apply the laws of their flag state. In reality, these are lawless areas. These practices made Revlup a prime target for many civil rights groups. Some major megacorporations actually backed media campaigns against Revlup to promote corporate extraterritoriality as the solution against such abuses.
Incarceration division
Head office: Zurich, Switzerland
This division is in charge of Revlup core business, running prisons. It mostly employs guards, janitors, cooks and medical staff. Unlike the law, Revlup makes no difference between prisons, secured mental health institutions or illegal immigrants retention center. Through a dozen of subsidiaries, Revlup still runs around 150 prisons in UCAS, CAS, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Orange, Hungary, and provide services for state runs prisons in twice that number.
Also part of the division is the Southern Ocean Facilities department. As said above, Revlup corporation owes part of its reputation to the High Threat Incarceration Center in Antarctica. These are entirely automated, with no other human onboard than the prisonners. Revlup build them in shipyards anywhere in the world, and tug them into the Southern Ocean, anchoring them to the coast or offshore. After the prisoners arrived, guards only watch the place from a control center near Zurich through satellite links. The only regular supplies are raw sugar and other nutriments, used to feed prisoners either directly, or indirectly, through mycoprotein farms. Revlup never disclosed the number of these prisons, but it is thoughts there could be as much as eighteen.
Employment division
Head office: Atlanta, Georgia, CAS
Although Revlup cashcow are high threat prisoners, it is still raking some money from inmate employment. The Employment division works with other corporations to provide them with a dedicated and controled workforce. The division focus on profits over security makes them not so popular within Revlup ranks. Obviously, they don't get to work with High Threat Incarceration Centers, at least officially. A lot of people suspect the Employment division of picking inmates with "operational skills" for "temporary outside employment". In other words, Revlup Johnson rarely get to meet runners in a fashionable nightclub. Another rumor is some corporation has been offering Revlup to use the brain power of prisoner held in closed-circuit simsense as a part of a research program.
Search & Enforcement division
Head office: Cape Town, Azania
Revlup first established an Enforcement division in 2039, to maintain fast-reaction riot units. Their primary duty is to intervene in automated prisons when remote operation can no longer handle a riot or evasion attempt (read: when the automated turrets ran out of ammo), but also when the management considers a situation is going out of control in manned prisons.
The base near Cape Town is a large complex, with training areas that mimick half a dozen of typical prison setups, and a fully operational airfield for strategic transport aircraft and helicopters. Bases in the rest of the world are usually smaller, with the units moving to the closest airports for airlift. Revlup troops must be able to subdue several magicians or heavily augmented prisoners. From armored closed combat to airjump into cold waters (standard procedure when an automated prison helipad cannot be secured from above), Revlup training can face the comparison with some elite military units.
The Search part falls to investigation teams tasked with tracking fugitives. Because of Donald and Victor Lydecker experience as US Marshals, the Revlup Fugitive Task Force were long considered as Revlup elite and directly answered to the CEO. Revlup still makes a point to catch up inmates that escaped its prisons, dead or alive, at no cost for the customer. They also accept contract from the outside, often when a local police force faces a high-profile escape. Revlup FTF came to win the first season of America's Hunting, with five kills and four arrests, ahead of both Lone Star and Knight Errant teams. However, the FTF announced it wouldn't take part in the fourth season, set to leave North America for Azania.
Technical support division
Head office: Zurich, Switzerland
This division takes charge of all the equipment used by Revlup. Modern prison design now involve advanced technologies, like closed-loop simense or neural reprogramming, but there is still construction work, water and food supplies or armament. Technical support division services takes care of acquisition, installations, and maintenance for all Revlup facilities. They control several subisdiaries, including Reveal Systems, Inc. (electronics), K&D Security (armored material) or Chain Industries (ammo). They currently are working a lot on how to secure Revlup prisons against technomancers, rediscovering the virtue of goold old mechanical locks.
A few years ago, this division had the reputation of being the most corrupt of the corporation. After the complete blueprint of a prison in southern Africa ended in the hands of a runners team, the management decided to react. It soon emerged almost all the contracts with other corporation, especially for prison building, were rife with frauds and unjustified paybacks. The new divisional manager went as far as he could to put things back in order, but he wasn't given the opportunity to stop working with german megacorporations Proteus and Ruhrmetall, which seemingly played a major role in the wrongdoings.
Cryogenics division
Head office: Reykjavik, Iceland
Though penologists still discuss over the value of a prison term that would pass in the blink of an eye from the prisoner's point on view, Revlup people reason more practically: frozen inmates don't move. Research and development of cryogenics thus is a major project for Revlup, justifying the establishment of its own division, separate from technical support. They created a joint-venture with Proteus AG to further advance research. Though Proteus engineers are much more advanced than their Revlup counterparts, the later have a much larger pool of experiment subjects available.
Hight Threat Detention Center 6 (International waters)
The HTDC #6 is an offshore platform located about 600 kilometers south of New Zealand. The site became a prime concern for Revlup management after a group of Human Rights NGO announced they were gathering a fleet of ships to sail to the platform, board it and try to establish a contact with inmates. The fleet will broadcast live on the Matrix. As the first ships are arriving in Auckland, the corporation services is still debating on the best course of action. The problem seems to be that Revlup may not be able to scramble the fleet satellite links without scrambling the platform defense system as well, causing them to switch to automated mode (with a result you can imagine). The corporation is obviously searching for another way to sabotage the effort. Another question remains, as it seems the fleet organisers expect certain people to be among the detainees, though they nor Revlup did not disclose who.
Edgerton Correctional Facility (Edgerton, Kansas, UCAS)
Yet another prison the media dubbed as "America's Worst", Edgerton is just as violent and overcrowded as quite a number of other prisons in North America. This one came under the spotlight earlier this year, after 23 homicides in two months, in spite of all the security measures. Those were the result of a three-way gang war between the Cutters, Los Aes, and the Mafia and their People Nation allies (for those who wouldn't know, Los Aes and People Nation are two of the largest "prison gangs" in North America). It would have been business as usual for Revlup PR departement without Nick Cammisano. The police suspects Cammisano, an underboss of the Civella family serving his term at Edgerton for drug trafficking, of ordering at least 11 kills out of 23. It also emerged the prison staff waited some time before taking action. That was enough for the medias to make the link with the old ties between Revlup and the Civellas.
Pueblo Prison Complex - Belen (Belen, Pueblo)
Because of history, Revlup operations in the NAN have always been difficult at best. So far, the corporation usually relied on shell companies and joint ventures to do so. So when the Pueblo Departement of Corrections officially announced Reva-Lupton Security Solutions won the contract to build a new retention center for illegal immigrants in Belen, everybody knew things wouldn't go smoothly.
Illegal immigration is the new big issue in Pueblo. People from what is now Southeast Pueblo already feels like they are losing their nation to Utes, Mormons and Angelinos, and can't do much about it. So immigrants from Aztlan, California and Tir Tairngire became substitution targets for a number of politicians. In turn, their opponents jumped on Revlup contract to attack the government policy. It doubled as a diplomatic crisis when some Sioux Chief voiced his concern over the "return of an enemy in Pueblo lands" and Aztlan Secretary of Foreign Affairs applauded. Aztlan is actually primarily concerned, as the main reason for Revlup winning appears to be the Pueblo Department of Public Safety will to work in the center to detect potential Aztlaner spies among the immigrants and gather intelligence on smuggling rings. They considered Revlup offer far superior when it came to intelligence activities support.
Hewell A (Tardebigge, England, Great Britain)
HMP Hewell is a large carceral complex south of Birmingham, run by Revlup. Until recently, if officially comprised three prisons: Blakenhurst, Brockhill and Hewell Grange. But last year, the Prison Service acknowledged the existence of a fourth prison at Hewell. For four decades, it has been one of the most secret places in Great Britain. Only a handful of pictures existed, and a court injunction prevented medias from simply mentionning its existence. The facility still doesn't even have an official name, though it was coloquially known among security forces and activist groups as Hewell A or The Well (in Great Britain, Category A prisoners are those "who escape would be highly dangerous to the public, the Police or the Security of the State").
This prison held those who represented the most serious threat to the State, according to the Lord Protector's Office. Prisoners often first went through SAS base in Hereford, about 50 kilometers southwest of Hewell. But in order to protect the British administration and armed forces, Downing Street spin doctors now insist on Revlup role in servicing the prison (while it seems Revlup personnel actually couln't even enter some part of the prison). The government was also quick to announce Hewell A would be emptied and closed, before realizing some inmates nonetheless remained extremely dangerous. So far, only a few high profile prisoners like former MP Adrian Walford and journalist Jack Thompson got out. The other are still waiting for a special commission to review their case, though the prison management softened security measures and allowed a small number of visits.
Complexe P2 (Creutzwald, SOX)
In December 2070, French aircrafts flying over the SOX as part of the Rad Wars match against Ruhrmetall force left the engagement area to bomb Ares and Ruhrmetall facilities and units. In the following days, the French government revealed these aircrafts acted in support of an extraction operation targeting a Revlup secret detention center in Creutzwald. Among the prisoners freed was former minister Adrien de Bourbon: officially dead in a terrorist bombing in 2034, he had been held captive for more than twenty years.
Revlup did not comment on the existence of Complex P2, nor did they disclose for how long it had been active, how many prisoners remain and who they are. They quietly shut the site down and probably moved them elsewhere. This affair nonetheless established two things. First, Revlup accepted payments to held captives from a private customer, not officially connected to a government or a megacorporation (in this case, a shell company linked to the LLR Finance holding). Second, at least Ares Macrotechnology and Ruhrmetall were aware of P2 existence, and had agreements with Revlup to protect the site.