There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Ramsey Clark

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Topic

Criminal justice system Criminals

Speaker

Ramsey Clark

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Lawyer

From

United States

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Citation

Clark, Ramsey. Keynote address. American Correctional Association conference. Aug. 1967, Miami Beach, FL, USA.

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Michael Harrington
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Genre
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Citation

Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962, ch. 1.