...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anythi — Barbara Deming, Prisons That Could Not Hold
...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anythi — Barbara Deming, Prisons That Could Not Hold
...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anythi — Barbara Deming, Prisons That Could Not Hold
...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anythi — Barbara Deming, Prisons That Could Not Hold
...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anythi — Barbara Deming, Prisons That Could Not Hold
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...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anything I have learned by being in jail, it is that prisons are wrong, simply and unqualifiedly wrong.

— Barbara Deming, Prisons That Could Not Hold
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