(Bloomberg) -- Jim Cohen, a professor at Fordham University Law School, and Joshua Norkin, a lawyer at the legal aid society of New York, discuss a growing trend among extremely wealthy people accused to crime who are now able to pay huge amounts of money for monitored house arrest, or "personal jails," rather than going to prison. The tactic has been employed by accused criminals from Bernie Madoff to David Brooks, but is now coming under scrutiny from public defenders and prosecutors who find the practice unfair. They speak with Bloomberg Law hosts June Grasso and Michael Best on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."