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...." my jails are empty of prisoners,..."

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

This quote from Thomas Paine in the Rights of Man was sent to me by Luis Gonzales incarcerated in Corcoran.. "When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government."

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 24, 2010 (boomark / email).