Rooms - all of them suites - put a great emphasis on a sense of place, with Mexican architecture and furniture, domed ceilings, arched doorways, white stucco and lots of floor to ceiling windows and sliding doors to let in the breeze.

FORBES: Las Ventanas al Paraiso, Los Cabos, Mexico

Most people put way too much emphasis on the CEO in the first place, he adds, and bringing in an outsider is not likely to positively affect a company's performance.

FORBES: CEO Wanted: No Experience Necessary

As Eichler notes, several things are driving this, including a long-term shift in resources to antiterrorism cases, and more recently the use of deferred prosecution agreements, a policy put in place during the Bush administration and unchanged by Obama, which puts an emphasis on self-policing by corporations in the hopes of heading off long, costly court cases.

FORBES: Not Prosecuting the Banks

"We have begun a radical review of the youth secure estate to put more emphasis on education and training, so for those young people for whom custody is the right place, we support them in turning their backs on crime, " he added.

BBC: offenders learning to rewire a plug