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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “In prison life there is no room for exercising one’s will.”

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In prison life there is no room for exercising one’s will.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin emphasizes the absence of personal agency in the prison environment.

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