Prison is an excellent way to keep dangerous criminals off the streets, but the more people you lock up, the less dangerous each extra prisoner is likely to be.

监狱是让危险地罪犯远离街道的一种好方法，但是你关押的人越多，也就越容易把犯了小错的人也抓来。

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Once he managed to lock up all 33 jailers and prison workers, he made sure to let them all know that the gun was a phony.

当将所有的狱卒和监狱工作共33人全部制服后，他还特意让他们知道这支枪是假的。

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You lock yourself in the prison that you make for yourself.

你把自己锁在自己造就的牢狱中。

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There is a lock of hair, the chemise Marie-Antoinette wore in the Temple prison, and the tiny prayer book in which she penned a final message to her children.

ECONOMIST: Marie-Antoinette

Prison is an excellent way to keep dangerous criminals off the streets, but the more people you lock up, the less dangerous each extra prisoner is likely to be.

ECONOMIST: Crime and punishment in America