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Page 75 - these improvements of prison conditions show that society is unconsciously ashamed of its treatment of so-called criminals; that the excuse of prevention of crime is really known to be humbug and hypocrisy, and that the real motive that causes the punishment of crime is malice and hatred and nothing else.
Page 51 - the Supreme Being, the observance of fast days and holy days, the giving of medicine and the withholding of medicine, the relation of the sexes, the right to labor and not to labor, the method of acquiring and dispensing property, its purchase and
Page 172 - coldness and settled hate. Mob law, too,\ -. generally reaches the object of its wrath, while evidence is fresh and facts are easily understood and unhampered ^by
Page 53 - as saints the criminals that another age has put to death. One law-making body repeals the crimes that another creates. Some judges ' with venerable wigs have pronounced > solemn sentence of death upon helpless, defenceless old women for bewitching a cat. Grave judges have even sentenced animals to death after due and impartial trial for crime.
Page 172 - violence through mob law in return. But uncertain and reprehensible as mob law has 'ever been it is still much more excusable and more certain than the organized force of society operating ^through the criminal courts. Mob law
Page 86 - who is familiar with the inmates of jails and penal institutions has learned to know the type of man that is confined as a criminal. In nearly every case these are inferior physically to the average man. In nearly every case they are also inferior mentally to the average man. One needs but
Page 45 - Then, too, authority has the same effect on human nature whether in an absolute monarchy or a democracy, and the tendency of authority is ever to enlarge its bounds and to encroach upon the natural rights of those who have no power to protect themselves. The possession of authority and arbitrary power ever tends to tyranny,
Page 158 - of men. But the evil of judgment and punishment does not end with the unfortunate victim. It brutalizes and makes inhuman all who are touched with its power. Under the influence of punishments jailers, policemen, sheriffs, detectives and all who deal with prisons are brutalized and hardened. The iniquities produced upon
Page 151 - is always the man we do not know or the man we hate—the man we see through the bitterness of our hearts.
Page 147 - forbid extortion and swindling, and yet the largest part of business is extortion, and much of the balance is swindling. When the law forbids extortion and swindling, it simply forbids certain forms and methods of these acts, and these forms and methods are the ones not