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So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but its mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growi

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"So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime"

- Polly Toynbee

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This quote is written / told by Polly Toynbee somewhere between December 27, 1946 and today. He/she was a famous Journalist from England. The author also have 23 other quotes.

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