This is an interesting subject to me.
One of the books I just go was , “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap” by Matt Taibbi. I look forward to reading it. He’s excellent on these topics.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Divide-American-Injustice-Wealth/dp/081299342X
As a side note, I just began binge watching “Orange is the New Black” on Netflix. This is an outstanding show. It’s based on a true story but the stories are very well written and certainly touch at a variety of problems within the system and attempt to show the prisoners as human beings. There are big problems with the system and what do we send them back to when we release them?
We have a long way to go.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick