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I believe the best mode of aiding convicts is so to apportion their tasks in prison as to give to the industrious the opportunity of earning a sum for themselves by 'over-work.' A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Acquire Believe Best Convicts Day Earning Give He Hour Industrious Man Mode Most Opportunity Prison Sum Tasks Themselves Uses Values Which I Believe I Believe The

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Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Best Cannot Children Convicts Duty Exercise Firm Government Granted Humanity Indulgence Kind Leads May Prisoners Repair Steady Truest Which

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Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.

~Eliot Spitzer

Topics: Access Convicts Evidence Finds Giving Innocents Make Might Must Neutral Part Relevant System Technology Testing Whenever Dna

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Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

~George Jackson

Topics: Abuse Black Come Convicts Most Order Today Understand Victims

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