![]() There is even a Web page asking, “ Has America Created Its Own Gulag Archipelago?” and another drawing an extended comparison to slavery. ![]() Certainly, these comparisons, and the idea that the American prison system has become our own gulag, or that its relation toward African-Americans resembles slavery, have had a distinct magnetism. Many have written responses to me, some very moving, all of them very interesting.Ī few readers and commentators have been concerned that the analogies of the current circumstance in American incarceration to the Soviet gulag or to American slavery are overblown, given the historically exceptional, and often fatal, reality of those things. ![]() ![]() My recent piece on the scandals of prisons and American incarceration has received so much reaction that I thought I might take advantage of the magazine’s Web presence to clarify some points, answer some mail, bring up a few books, and generally address a few arguments that I didn’t manage to fit into the essay proper, printed, as it was, in … print. ![]()
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