Prison Reform

Prison reform is the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, aiming at a more effective penal system.

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Famous quotes containing the words prison and/or reform:

    “This great purple butterfly,
    In the prison of my hands,
    Has a learning in his eye
    Not a poor fool understands.
    Once he lived a schoolmaster
    With a stark, denying look....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)