Certainly could be the case.
Although I live in the bosom of Hillbilly Heaven, there is a *thriving* halal slaughterhouse about 8 miles away.
*Why*?
The prisons are the biggest local economy.
Most of the cons come out NOI converts...and they never move ‘back home’, wherever in Hell that was.
Long, *long* before 911 or even tiny hint of what was to come, my prison guard daddy told me *they* would be the ones to bring it all down.