Jonathan Simon Says Prison System is US Response to Social Ills
The Texas Tribune, January 7, 2010 by Brandi Grissom
http://www.texastribune.org/stories/2010/jan/07/small-towns-big-border-business/
In the words of Berkeley Law professor Jonathan Simon, we are “governing through crime”—isolation and exclusion in an expansive penal system is the dominant response to tough social problems.
