Oak, private stockholders in many of the big firms and companies that are well known are responsible for the mass incarceration of prisoners. They save money using prison labor through contracts or owning their own private prisons. Skull and Bones are part of why it is like it, but not the reason. There are many of these SH and CEOs that are members or have connections to secret societies, and members or connections in the Judicial and Political branches of the U.S. government. It is just easier for people to paint Skull and Bones as the all and powerful boogeyman or shadow over the U.S.