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Judge Carter, of Ohio, avowed himself a radical on prison discipline. He favored the abolishment of prisons, and the use of greater efforts for the prevention of crime. Any system of imprisonment or punishment was degradation, and could not reform a man. He would abolish all prison walls, and release all confined within them... | Judge Carter, of Ohio, avowed himself a radical on prison discipline. He favored the abolishment of prisons, and the use of greater efforts for the prevention of crime. Any system of imprisonment or punishment was degradation, and could not reform a man. He would abolish all prison walls, and release all confined within them... | ||
:—Minutes of the 1870 Congress of the American Prison Association/American Correctional Association | :—Minutes of the 1870 Congress of the American Prison Association/American Correctional Association | ||
Es sollte keine Gefängnisse geben; und wenn es nicht die Tatsache gäbe, dass die Menschen von außen so ergreifend und herzlos in ihrem Umgang mit den Menschen im Inneren sind, gäbe es keine solchen Einrichtungen wie Gefängnisse ... Die einzige Möglichkeit in der Welt, das Verbrechen abzuschaffen und Kriminelle sollen die Großen und die Kleinen zusammen abschaffen. Mache faire Lebensbedingungen. Geben Sie Männern eine Chance zu leben .... Niemand würde stehlen, wenn er etwas einfacher seinen eigenen Weg finden könnte. Niemand wird einen Einbruch begehen, wenn er ein Haus voll hat. Der einzige Weg, diese Bedingungen zu heilen, ist die Gleichheit. Es sollte keine Gefängnisse geben. Sie erreichen nicht, was sie vorgeben zu tun. Wenn du sie auslöschen würdest, gäbe es keine Verbrecher mehr als jetzt. Sie terrorisieren niemanden. Sie sind ein Schandfleck für jede Zivilisation, und ein Gefängnis ist ein Beweis für die fehlende Nächstenliebe der Menschen, die die Gefängnisse machen und sie mit den Opfern ihrer Gier erfüllen. | |||
Clarence Darrow, eine Adresse an die Gefangenen im Cook County Gefängnis, Chicago, Illinois 1902 | |||
'''There ought to be no jails; and if it were not for the fact that the people on the outside are so grasping and heartless in their dealings with the people on the inside, there would be no such institutions as jails''' .... The only way in the world to abolish crime and criminals is to abolish the big ones and the little ones together. Make fair conditions of life. Give men a chance to live .... Nobody would steal if he could get something of his own some easier way. Nobody will commit burglary when he has a house full. The only way to cure these conditions is by equality. There should be no jails. They do not accomplish what they pretend to accomplish. If you would wipe them out there would be no more criminals than now. They terrorize nobody. They are a blot upon any civilization, and a jail is an evidence of the lack of charity of the people on the outside who make the jails and fill them with the victims of their greed. | '''There ought to be no jails; and if it were not for the fact that the people on the outside are so grasping and heartless in their dealings with the people on the inside, there would be no such institutions as jails''' .... The only way in the world to abolish crime and criminals is to abolish the big ones and the little ones together. Make fair conditions of life. Give men a chance to live .... Nobody would steal if he could get something of his own some easier way. Nobody will commit burglary when he has a house full. The only way to cure these conditions is by equality. There should be no jails. They do not accomplish what they pretend to accomplish. If you would wipe them out there would be no more criminals than now. They terrorize nobody. They are a blot upon any civilization, and a jail is an evidence of the lack of charity of the people on the outside who make the jails and fill them with the victims of their greed. | ||