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I am trying to establish a list of factors that could create a world where imprisonment is worse, or social rules are more strict. Also looking at alternatove world ecconomics

https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=159357

does anyone know any laws, that if they had got passed could have caused a potential dystopia scenario? Or a person that got elected into power etc...?
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