"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."
— Prison

January 1, 1970

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Prisons
Original Language: English

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead (1861); reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).