• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    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.

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      Prison reform in the US in the 1960s felt - for a brief instant - like a truly progressive force. Then Reaganism happened…