Juvenile Detention

Of course the bulk of Phoenix hardware - their collectibles, tokens, ID strands, catalogues and contents, were all supplied by the prison factories, and then paid for in discounted lots back to the local communities.

Easy targets for recruitment were the infants of the teenage mothers, who were fostered into Phoenix homes until old enough to be first set up for juvenile detention. It was a seamless plan with endless candidates. 

Getting them young meant that they would become used to the work ahead of them in their sunless existence yet to follow.

-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series

Entrapment

Labour in the Third World had become expensive with Fair Trade winning its cause. This meant now that cheaper work was sought for – and it was now the prison occupants who formed the manufacturing base for the worldwide economy - from clothes to car parts - respectable society prospered while the unpaid slavery toiled within their confinements.

Furthermore it was the universal government itself (working in alias through Phoenix) that had actually put the goods out there on the streets in the first place.

Entrapment was absolutely justified, they explained, as it was a means to sorting the citizens best suited for internment work - those who took the con, had lost their privilege in an instant of an ordinary life outside.

-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series

'Blitz' on Crime

Out on the streets the word was that they were making big arrests in every city of the world.

This 'blitz' on crime was proudly publicised as being a great win for those of the moral society, who had flatly decided that the scum of the drug trade were now to be reigned in and punished, once and for all.

Operation 'snatch' was so successful that the correction facilities were running overfull, and they were putting three to a cell just to be able to hold them.

But in truth, it had been the free labor that the governments had been after all along; and the arrests were simply a means to an end.

-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series