Birdman of Alcatraz
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Cooperation. The only thing
I've ever gotten back was defiance!

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Not once have you ever shown
a sign of rehabilitation!

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- Rehabilitation.
- Yes. Rehabilitation.

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I wonder if you know
what the word means.

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Do you?
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Now don't be insulting.
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The unabridged Webster's
International Dictionary

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says it comes from the Latin root habilis.
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The definition is:
to invest again with dignity.

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Do you consider that part of your job, to
give a man back the dignity he once had?

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Your only interest is in how he behaves.
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You told me that once a long time ago,
and I'll never forget it.

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"You'll conform to our ideas
of how you should behave."

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And you haven't retreated from
that stand one inch in 35 years.

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You want your prisoners to dance
out the gates like puppets on a string,

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with rubber-stamp values
impressed by you,

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with your sense of conformity,
your sense of behaviour,

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even your sense of morality.
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That's why you're a failure, Harvey.
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You and the whole science of penology.
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Because you rob prisoners of
the most important thing in their lives -

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their individuality.
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On the outside they're lost, automatons,
just going through the motions of living.

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But underneath there's a deep,
deep hatred for what you did to them.

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First chance they get
to attack society, they do it.

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The result? More than half
come back to prison.

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Now it's all here in my book.
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And I suggest you read it
and you read it thoroughly.


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