Have not prisons - which ki... by Peter Kropotkin, a Russian Revolutionary

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“Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?”

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Peter Kropotkin

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Name: Peter Kropotkin

Nationality: Russian

Date of Birth: Dec 9, 1842

Date of Death: Feb 8, 1921

Profession: Revolutionary

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