“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.”
"The degree of civilisation in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." (from The House of the Dead)
NO - a society should also and equally be judged by the proportion of its population committed to prison.
It is only civilised societies which have prisons.
Vindictiveness is the father of cruelty.
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