What a nest of infection is every prison, and even a law court for its neighbourhood--for the people who live about them.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “What a nest of infection is every prison, and even a law court for its neighbourhood--for the people who live about…”
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Kropotkin describes prisons and their surrounding areas as breeding grounds for social infection.
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