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The condition of human beings, reduced to the extremest states of degradation and misery, cannot be exhibited in softened language, or adorn a polished page.
Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts on the Conditions of the Prisons (1843)
Familiarity with suffering, it is said, blunts the sensibilities, and where neglect once finds a footing other injuries are multiplied.
Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts on the Conditions of the Prisons (1843)
I proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within this Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.
Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts on the Conditions of the Prisons (1843)