Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life - Oscar Wilde

Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life

By Oscar Wilde

  • Release Date: 2014-09-03
  • Genre: Law
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The Irish writer and playwright was a serious thinker who, having been sentenced to two years of hard labor as a punishment for his homosexuality, was deeply engaged with the social issues of his day. This essay, penned as a letter to a newspaper soon after Wilde's release from prison, takes up the moral issue of penal sentences for juveniles, a question that still has great relevance today.

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