The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical Writings: Novels, Short Stories, Memoirs & Letters of 19th-Century Russia

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is acknowledged that neither convict prisons, nor the hulks, nor any system of hard labour ever cured a criminal. These forms of chastisement only punish him and reassure society against the offences he might commit.