[lbo-talk] RE: Criminal stats question

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Wed Mar 31 15:13:20 PST 2004


...on the subject of the railroading of the poor into prison, see "Address to the Prisoners of Cook County Jail" by Clarence Darrow.

http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/darrow.htm

Here is the preface. The essay is quite good./Joanna _________________________________________________

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



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