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亨利·福特:我的生活与工作·补录 343

亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导

A well-conducted jail should not only be self-supporting, but a man in jail ought to be able to support his family or, if he has no family, he should be able to accumulate a sum of money sufficient to put him on his feet when he gets out of jail. I am not advocating convict labour or the farming out of men practically as slaves. Such a plan is too detestable for words. We have greatly overdone the prison business, anyway; we begin at the wrong end. But as long as we have prisons they can be fitted into the general scheme of production so neatly that a prison may become a productive unit working for the relief of the public and the benefit of the prisoners. I know that there are laws--foolish laws passed by unthinking men--that restrict the industrial activities of prisons. Those laws were passed mostly at the behest of what is called Labour. They are not for the benefit of the workingman. Increasing the charges upon a community does not benefit any one in the community. If the idea of service be kept in mind, then there is always in every community more work to do than there are men who can do it.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7213
定位:Additional excerpt 343 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

福特认为,管理良好的监狱不仅应自给自足,囚犯还应能养家,或攒够钱出狱后重新站稳脚跟。他并不主张囚犯苦役或把人当奴隶出租,那太可憎。他说监狱业务已过度扩张,起点就错了;但只要还有监狱,就可以巧妙纳入生产体系,成为既服务公众又造福囚犯的生产单位。他知道有些愚蠢法律限制监狱工业活动,这些法律多是应劳工要求制定的,并不利于工人。增加社区负担对谁都没好处。若牢记服务理念,每个社区总有比能干活的人更多的工作要做。

上下文

福特在20世纪初讨论监狱改革,反对当时限制囚犯劳动的法律,认为应让监狱成为生产性单位。

今日一问

对于服刑人员,社会应更注重惩罚隔离,还是培养他们出狱后自食其力的能力?

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