Venlu Corporation

The Venlu Corporation first made waves in 2260, when it became the first corporation to offer private incarceration services to the city-states. Venlus Corporation CEO Markus Venlu approached the heads of the major city-states and offered them an opportunity to rid their cities of expensive and unsightly prisons, promising to take any and all prisoners off their hands, while abiding by the penal system requirements of each city-state government. For many the offer was too good to pass up - Venlu was willing to handle the most dangerous criminals and shoulder the responsibility of their incarceration. Venlu quickly became a major player in the New World’s corporate power game.

It was not long before Venlu had enough contracts and Trust to expand its operation. The construction of the Venlu Island prison quickly followed.

The vast majority of Venlu’s employees are human, Lesser Grigori, and Lesser Nephilim, although the corporation does employ several AI and even a few Remnants.

Dozens of city-states have arranged incarceration contracts with Venlu. The island’s prison is already home to nearly 500,000 inmates, with room doe more than twice that according to Venlu. Unlike many other privately-run prison facilities, Venlu offers its customers several levels of incarceration as well as numerous education programmes.

So far Venlu Island has a nearly perfect record. Although there have been numerous attempts, no one has successfully escaped. Several inmates made it t the ocean, but were never found, and the California coast is an impossible 241 km (149.7 mi) swim.

Of course, rumour has it that Venlu is deeply involved in more than simply offering incarceration facilities. Many investigators and gossips claim Venlu is conducting research on prisoners in an attempt to launch its own line of Bio-engineered. Venlu denies these accusations (4.5.2).