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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The will of the prisoner must be killed, and it is killed.”

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The will of the prisoner must be killed, and it is killed.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin states that the prison system is designed to suppress the will of inmates.

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