I thus realized that what was going on in our law courts was in reality a condemnation of quite innocent people to all sorts of hardships, in most cases even worse than those to which the condemned man himself is submitted.
Kropotkin critiques the legal system, arguing that it often punishes innocent individuals more harshly than the actual offenders.
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