The Prison Question Reck Nation

"It is not at all an unusual thing to find men and women who have spent half lives, nay, almost their entire existence, in prison. I know a woman on blackwell's island who had been in and out 38 times," he writes. "A young boy of 17, whom he had nursed and cared for in the pittsburg penitentiary, had never known the meaning of liberty." He adds: 'Nothing short of a complete reconstruction of society will deliver mankind from the cancer of crime'