[USA] Sequestering Gang Members, Burning Witches, and Subverting Due Process
Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 34, No. 2, 274-288 (2007)
http://cjb.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/2/274
Hans Toch
"There are striking parallels between the procedures relied on by medieval inquisitors in persecuting witches and those used by American prison administrators in "classification" proceedings through which gang members are indefinitely sequestered based on evidence of gang affiliation."