Judges are products of the containment system.
The criminal justice system makes a lot of money for everybody, from the judge to the bailiff, from the bail bondsmen to the police. The sheriffs deputies, everybody. Two brown boys shuffle into the cell to await their court date, their pants hanging down their behinds, their eyes straining to project a toughness that their tiny stature and beardless faces betray. Their bright eyes search the tiny holding cell. One paces the five and a half foot long, four foot wide glass-doored cage, while the other sits on the hard, wooden slats of the bench, his eyes unfocused, inward looking.