The Jail Inferno

The Jail Inferno. A descent into the nation’s most tumultuous penal institutions, where modern order-maintenance techniques are bringing discipline:

But the order that the lobbyists, academic critics, and neo-Foucauldians see as oppressive is inmates’ only hope for safety and even, perhaps, rehabilitation. The recent insights of urban policing—that order matters, that small violations lead to greater crimes, and that information must be gathered and analyzed—are all equally pertinent to jails, where chaos and corruption always threaten.

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