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It cannot be confounded with “the punishment of crime”; for imprisonment is not Slavery; nor can any punishment take the form of a wrong which stands by itself, peculiar, terrible, outrageous.
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Sumner distinguishes between imprisonment and slavery, arguing that punishment should not equate to the unique and severe nature of slavery.
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