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makattak

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Re: Why Scandanavian prisons are superior
« Reply #100 on: December 17, 2014, 09:59:09 AM »
Quote from: White Horseradish on December 17, 2014, 09:30:12 AM
You do realize that this is exactly what the Soviet labor camps did, and yet the professional class of "thieves in law" flourished?

Now, I'm not particularly familiar with the "thieves in law", but according to Wiki, one of their tenets was to "refuse all work" while in the prisons.

That doesn't sound like forced hard labor to me.
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Re: Why Scandanavian prisons are superior
« Reply #101 on: December 17, 2014, 11:56:02 AM »
Quote from: makattak on December 17, 2014, 09:59:09 AM
Now, I'm not particularly familiar with the "thieves in law", but according to Wiki, one of their tenets was to "refuse all work" while in the prisons.

That doesn't sound like forced hard labor to me.

You think Soviet prisons were not sufficiently forceful? Seriously?
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Re: Why Scandanavian prisons are superior
« Reply #102 on: December 17, 2014, 12:02:03 PM »
It does illustrate who us really in control inside. And how difficult it is for normal folks to understand


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