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 reform, prison and/or reform:

    “Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce great poetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “each prison crypt,
    of canyoned traffic . . . Confronting the Exchange,
    Surviving in a world of stocks,—”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    “No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre nearer.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)