What a growing number of sociologists have found ought to be common sense: by locking millions of people out of the mainstream legal economy, by making it difficult or impossible for people to find housing or feed themselves, and by destroying familial bonds by warehousing millions for minor crimes, we make crime more—not less—likely in the most vulnerable communities.
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
criminal-justice-system, sociology