America, as a new and not over-populated country, has in all her prisons, the one great advantage, of being enabled to find useful and profitable work for the inmates; whereas, with us, the prejudice against prison labour is naturally very strong, and almost insurmountable, when honest men who have not offended against the laws are frequently doomed to seek employment in vain. Even in the United States, the principle of bringing convict labour and free labour into a competition which must obviously be to the disadvantage of the latter, has already found many opponents, whose number is not likely to diminish with access of years 去书内

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    American documentary works as a mirror, reflecting the nation’s contradictions between ideal and reality. It never avoids the dark side while recording glory, showing the country’s evolution in conflicts and self-correction.

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