http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/clarence-darrow-on-the-situation-of-crime-and-criminals/ Sat, 18 May 2013 14:35:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/clarence-darrow-on-the-situation-of-crime-and-criminals/#comment-18132 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:38:26 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=3586#comment-18132 [...] CLARENCE DARROW ON THE SITUATION OF CRIME AND CRIMINALS “Crime and Criminals: Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail” (1902) Preface This address is a stenographic report of a talk made to the prisoners in the Chicago jail. Some of my good friends have insisted that while my theories are true, I should not have given them to the inmates of a jail. Realizing the force of the suggestion that the truth should not be spoken to all people, I have caused these remarks to be printed on rather good paper and in a somewhat expensive form. In this way the truth does not become cheap and vulgar, and is only placed before those whose intelligence and affluence will prevent their being influenced by it. —Clarence Darrow Crime and Criminals If I looked at jails and crimes and prisoners in the way the ordinary person does, I should not spe… Go to Source [...]

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