Why not work out some system whereby they can pay back the debts they owe society instead of incurring another debt by going to prison and, of course, coming under the influence of hardened criminals.
Almost at the same instant with the children, another couple approached the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, who was leading by the hand a little fellow of six.
And, unlike most of the world's poor countries, South Africa, with its widespread welfare system, does not have a thriving informal economy where the jobless can take refuge.
Besides, "it is a thrill unique to a market society to find that people are willing to pay for one's product," writes Deirdre McCloskey in her latest book, "The Bourgeois Virtues".
But he did not understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: the expiation of what?