When Punishment Is A Crime

When Punishment is a CrimeDostoievsky called the book he wrote about his years in prison in Siberia The House of the Dead with reason. If he died and awoke in hell, he wrote, he would expect it to be no worse than the prisoners' bathhouse--a filthy, stinking hole filled with dense steam and hundreds of naked bodies. On his last night in prison, walking along the fence that had confined him for four years, he concluded that, on the whole, the men there were no better and no worse than people gene...