"Privatization" where government grants some cronies a slice of the political plunder pie is as antithetical to liberty as a government monopoly, with the added cancerous effect that idiots think this "privatization" somehow proves that free markets are a corrupt failure.

If there is no victim, there is no crime. If there is a victim, justice demands restitution. The modern law enforcement, court, and prison system has no bearing whatsoever on justice.