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minus-squaremineralfellowlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down10·21 days agoProbation is certainly not equivalent to the gulag system…
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·21 days agoSoviet prisons were not the cartoonish idea of a “gulag,” and conditions varied from prison to prison, depending on severity of crime, etc. Some prisons were more progressive than western peers.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevillinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 days agoPrison reform in the US in the 1960s felt - for a brief instant - like a truly progressive force. Then Reaganism happened…
minus-squareRiverRock@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·21 days agoYou’re right it’s way more cruel and arbitrary
minus-squarePolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·20 days agoReserve army of slave labour
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevillinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·21 days agoFunny fact about Joseph Stalin. He escaped from the gulags five or six times in a ten year period.
Probation is certainly not equivalent to the gulag system…
Soviet prisons were not the cartoonish idea of a “gulag,” and conditions varied from prison to prison, depending on severity of crime, etc. Some prisons were more progressive than western peers.
Prison reform in the US in the 1960s felt - for a brief instant - like a truly progressive force. Then Reaganism happened…
You’re right it’s way more cruel and arbitrary
Reserve army of slave labour
Funny fact about Joseph Stalin. He escaped from the gulags five or six times in a ten year period.