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prisoner rehabilitation
A criminologist's argument that prisons have failed to rehabilitate prisoners.
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Mount Olive Correctional Complex, a maximum-security prison in Mount Olive, West...
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Newgate Prison
Newgate Prison, London, drawing by George Dance the Younger; in Sir John Soane's...
Courtesy of the trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum; photograph, Geremy Butler
John Howard
John Howard, oil painting by Mather Brown; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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former penal settlement at Kingston
Ruined officers' quarters of the former penal settlement at Kingston on Norfolk Island.
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Sing Sing
Sing Sing prison on the Hudson River at Ossining, New York.
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Leavenworth: United States Penitentiary
United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.
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