After the revolution, surely the only good reason for institutions that could still be called prisons - because they take people and place them under restraint - is this reason wanting to keep people from harming others.
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But if institutions of restraint might still be necessary, they should no longer be institutions of punishment at the same time.
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After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
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