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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “But ‘once in prison, always in prison,’ such is the saying derived from experience.”

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But ‘once in prison, always in prison,’ such is the saying derived from experience.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin highlights the harsh reality of recidivism in the prison system.

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