Lost is our old simplicity of times;
The world abounds with laws,
and teems with crimes
Pennsylvania Gazette,
Feb. 8, 1775
With ready-made opinions one
cannot judge of crime.
Its philosophy is a little more
complicated than people think.
It is acknowledged that
neither convict prisons
nor any system of hard labor
ever cured a criminal.
FYODOR DOSTOIEVSKY
The House of the Dead