Over-criminalization is a huge problem and the topic in general ties in very well with your contribution on the prison-industrial complex and the use of prison (slave) labor in the U.S. For those who are interested, it can be found here.

An insidious aspect to this problem is that if someone in government with power wants somebody's life to be hell, there are countless ways to achieve that using laws or regulations, that is why it is called "throwing the book" at someone, because there is so much people don't know is illegal, it is possible to get anybody for something.