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In 1924–1929, sentences were determined by joint administrative and economic consideration. Beginning in 1924, because of national unemployment, the courts reduced the number of verdicts which sentenced prisoners to corrective labor while they continued to live at home and increased short-term prison sentences. These cases involved only nonpolitical offenders, of course. As a result, prisons were overcrowded with short-termers serving sentences of up to six months, and not enough use was being m
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― The Gulag Archipelago
― The Gulag Archipelago
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But I had begun to sense a truth inside myself: if in order to live it is necessary not to live, then what's it all for?
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― The Gulag Archipelago
― The Gulag Archipelago
