“Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.”

—  Horace Mann

As quoted in Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1881)

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American politician 1796–1859

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