Jonathan Simon’s Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass (1993), expresses the importance of how labor plays a role in the correctional system. Simon’s book highlights the development of parole throughout various moments in history, specifically, he suggests how parole went through changes and was viewed as either successful or a failure (Simon, 1993). The main component of parole centers on how punishment and labor were so important in the development of prisons because of the expansion of capitalism (Simon, 1993). At its core, capitalism, is mainly about obtaining power, which means an organization needs to be able to function and operate based on discipline. In other words, the labor of multiple workers creates
