Where do you get the idea thay’re from Serbia? The original story you posted was claiming they’re Russian. From reading this thread, they appear to be neither. They seem to be some small time Blackwater-type outfit that talked this small town into a contract for running their empty prison. Any town that builds a prison on spec needs some new town dads, but I’m not seeing any black helicopters. These small-town politicians do some stupid things. For example, my own town “leaders” proposed an $11 million bond issue to build a new high school and improve several other school buildings and property, despite enrollment being about a third what it was 4years ago when I went to school. The bond issue failed miserably, and the next year, the middle school was closed, and the 7th to 9th grades were sent to the high school, which had lots of empty rooms. The Mayor recently left town, but unfortunately, the “development director” who swore he would leave town if the bond issue failed is still here and still at the public trough.
That should be 40 years ago. I graduated from this same high school in 1971.