“The liberal state was not all that liberal when it came to the establishment of the external conditions for the free flow of economic entrepreneurship. Roads, railroads and regulating the poor became essential.” GovernmentPoorPovertyLiberalism Book:Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in Penal Policy Source: Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in Penal Policy
“The offender must be able to give something back. But criminals are most often poor people. They have nothing to give. The answers to this are many. It is correct that our prisons are by and large filled with poor people. We let the poor pay with the only commodity that is close to being equally distributed in society: time.” TimePovertyCrimeCriminal JusticeCrime And PunishmentCriminology Book:Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in Penal Policy Source: Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in Penal Policy