No one could have understood better than I did at the outset, that it is impossible to place yourself exactly in the shoes of a man who has been sentenced to prison for an actual crime; I did not expect to do so. No one, so far as I know, has ever yet succeeded in putting himself precisely in the place of another in any given set of circumstances; yet that does not keep us from constantly studying and analyzing the human problem.
Within Prison Walls / being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement / in the state prison at Auburn, New York
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Thomas Mott Osborne
