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Relates to: Newjacksome quotes on roots of criminal behaviourOne inmate in particular, a man named Larson whom other prisoners would always go out of their way to visit with, seemed to be a 'thinking person'. A few quotes:"Instead of wasting so much of the inmates' time on rec, Larson thought, Sing Sing should put a small library on every gallery so that imnates could sit in their cells and read. .... " 'They can't love me like I love them because they don't love themselves. They don't know who they are'. These two deprivations, he maintained, along with a third one -- that of 'a good model of a decision maker to look up to' when they were growing up -- were behind most of their criminal careers. They made bad choices, and most had been taught since they were young that they wouldn't amount to much." .... (at one point, news came that Sing Sing would be getting a new gym) " 'I'd die to stop that', Larson said, to my surprise" " 'You don't want to see this place improve?' " " 'No. The money should all be put back into the poor neighborhoods, back into education for children, to change the things that send people here.'" Check for some quotes on roots of criminal behaviour in the public library |
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