The American prison system is a big, booming business with a cluster of parasitic cottage industries. The bakeries, the dairy producers, the juice makers, and several other businesses are feeding on the system.And in terms of equity, if only the inmates knew there was just a thin line between them and the officers watching over them, they would stay out of jails. Sadly, they keep recycling themselves as the human raw materials needed to lubricate the wicked engine of oppression that a typical prison represents.The author should know all these issues. He retired as a lieutenant from the Delaware Department of Corrections after a 15-year tour of duty with the state's largest law enforcement agency.Prior to his stint in the Department of Corrections, Femi Olawole was a certified accountant with a passion for freelance journalism. He once contributed a weekly column of social commentaries to The News Journal (Delaware's top-most newspaper). This was in his capacity as a member of the newspaper's Community Advisory Board. In 1993, Olawole received The Nigerian Media Merit Award in the Business Reporting category for his work, Sailing on Dark Waters. He is also the author of The Temptation of Fate and The Tower of Mammon. Olawole is in Delaware, United States.
