When a person served out their time behind barbed wire, the system of internal banishment remained in place. A released prisoner then usually had to settle down in the village or community neighboring the Gulag camp where the guards lived, and find menial employment in some service sector industry supporting their former prison guard slave masters and their families. | When a person served out their time behind barbed wire, the system of internal banishment remained in place. A released prisoner then usually had to settle down in the village or community neighboring the Gulag camp where the guards lived, and find menial employment in some service sector industry supporting their former prison guard slave masters and their families. |