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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: not stay there for ever, but are set free again. On the contrary,
in those establishments men are brought to the greatest vice and
degradation, so that the danger is increased."
"You mean to say that the penitentiary system should be
improved."
"It cannot he improved. Improved prisons would cost more than all
that is being now spent on the people's education, and would lay
a still heavier burden on the people."
"The shortcomings of the penitentiary system in nowise invalidate
the law itself," Rogozhinsky continued again, without heeding his
brother-in-law.
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