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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable. - George Bernard Shaw
Attribution: George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. First published in seven parts in the New York American (April 30-June 11, 1922). Crude Criminology, “Imprisonment,” Doctors’ Delusions, Crude Criminology, and Sham Education, Constable (1950).

Categories: Critic, Playwright, Prisons

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