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A Plea for the Criminal

by J. L. A. Kayll

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Kayll’s appeal is that society treats its criminals with neither charity nor intelligence: that most offenders are made by circumstance, disease or defect, that punishment as retribution accomplishes nothing, and that the prison should be replaced by something closer to a hospital.

An early and forceful case for reform rather than punishment. Download the free EPUB.

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