English Quaker prison reformer who devoted her life to prison and asylum reform at home and abroad.
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Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Tags: punishment, revenge, lessen, crime, reform, criminal
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