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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Still less is there room for exercising one’s natural sympathies, everything being done to destroy free contact with…”

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Still less is there room for exercising one’s natural sympathies, everything being done to destroy free contact with those outside the prison and within it with whom the prisoner may have feelings of sympathy.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin highlights the detrimental effects of prison on natural human sympathies and connections.

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