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System Quotes by Piper Kerman
- Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the…
- I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for me at his…
- Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more…
- Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make…
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- I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson