Those days [in prison] revealed the banal cruelties that ja… - Zoia Horn

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Those days [in prison] revealed the banal cruelties that jails create and nurture. I saw people punished not only by being locked up but then by being degraded, treated capriciously, their personal dignity undermined, with no real recourse of appeal for fairness and justice.

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Zoia Markovna Horn (March 14, 1918 – July 12, 2014) was an American librarian and human rights activist.

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