These men can learn the value of an honest day's labour, while providing a valuable service to the community and at a bare minimum of expense to Mr. and Mrs. John Q Taxpayer.

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You can hear this line at 01:18:38 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- That was also the year Warden Norton instituted his famous Inside Out Programme.

- You may remember reading about it.

- It made all the papers and got his picture in Look Magazine.

- No free ride. But rather a genuine, progressive advance in corrections and rehabilitation.

- Our inmates, properly supervised, will be put to work outside these walls, performing all manner of public service.

- These men can learn the value of an honest day's labour, while providing a valuable service to the community and at a bare minimum of expense to Mr. and Mrs. John Q Taxpayer.

- Of course, Norton failed to mention to the press that bare minimum of expense is a fairly loose term.

- There are a hundred different ways to skim off the top.

- Men, materials, you name it.

- And, oh, my Lord, how the money rolled in.

[...]

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