The worlds largest private contractor of correctional officers and security guards ( not at the rent-a-cop mall level). Wackenhut maintains about 40,000 beds in prisons in 11 countries. Wackenhut was founded by George Wackenhut, an ex-director at the CIA, and its board of directors includes several government officials from various executive branch posts.

According to some conspiracy theories, Wackenhut also does odd jobs for the New World Order. This can be anything from providing security guards for Area 51, to wet work in Central America, to development of biological weaponry on California Indian reservations.