First He convicts us of sin and of our need of a Saviour.

他首先叫我们知罪，以及觉醒我们需要救主。

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He was indeed ahead of his time in employing women, ex-convicts, and the handicapped.

他的确思想先进，雇用了女性、刑满释放犯和残疾人。

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He learnt that, shortly before, some thirteen or fourteen convicts had succeeded in escaping from the penal settlement in an open boat, and had landed on a lonely part of the coast.

他了解到不久前有大约十三四个犯人成功地从一艘敞船上逃脱了犯人劳改，从一个偏僻地方上岸后投靠了一群人数众多的逃犯。

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Former prisoner Stephen Richards says he knew convicts who had escaped from their minimum-security prison in Kansas in the 1980s.

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And, believe it or not, he employed many former convicts to give them another chance at surviving without resorting to crime, which was a byproduct of a daring project he funded for Bard College in the prisons.

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Legally, he can do this because convicts in Italy do not usually serve short prison sentences until all their appeals have been heard, and anyway he enjoys parliamentary immunity.

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