David Jaffee, professor of sociology at the University of North Florida, delivers an incisive look at the nation’s offender industry.
An excerpt from his Florida Times-Union guest column:
While business was being deregulated, the economically marginalized were being hyper-regulated, and incarcerated in record numbers, through the institutionalization of new drug and vagrancy laws, and the surveillance and monitoring of poor communities and minority populations by local police forces.