they need their sleigh ssion makes it monday to re for a convert to be taken to a corrective institution located in the region where he lived before. are you sure i'd like to be closer to home my kids could come and see me i'm going to try and get through this this means i want to keep my health and i don't want to be a burden to my family but most of all i don't want prison to destroy me i want to remain who i am here. in the to the region a hundred kilometers from moscow another inmate is awaiting a decision that may change his life his name is andre often asked if he ended up in prison on charges of fraud now that he has served one third of his term he has appealed to the administration to release him on parole the law makes this possible . group for inmates only on duty andre often assume. is the day passed without incident this was the first. ever thing older yes

that's going to have a good deal of time is likely to pass between an inmate request for parole and his release first the county's administrative commission must consider his case even if they turn his request down he may take his appeal to court but that means he will have a much slimmer chance of being granted parole. the time has come for me to rethink my life and see where i'm headed it's. now believed that i have reforms for oil still that's why i've also. russia's federal penitentiary services the government body that oversees the country's prisons colonies a year ago it launched a program to resettle many of its inmates. one hundred fifty thousand convicts were relocated in line with a new law prohibiting fledgling inmates being housed together with hardened criminals and draft enough. serving a sentence in a colony of people with

a history of several crimes. this is a high security prison colony in the urals two thousand kilometers east of moscow many of the inmates here. rapists and drug dealers every one of them has fallen foul of the law on several occasions before they know only too well how things are run in captivity. to show emotion where you enter the building it's darkness around four hundred people around you. do you know what it's like. on face value this is just another colony but unlike others inmates here run their own theater this time in prison stossel decided to open a new season with an adaptation of notes from the house of the dead restored by

russia north a few hundred dostoevsky he wrote it after a period of exile on hard labor in siberia. a few sun the media each character in the book was plagued by sorrow and disenchanted we see this shattered lives well this is the love of this is what we want to convey to the audience is that the administration encourages inmates to take part in the club's performances if they have artistic talent others can get emotionally involved with the characters on stage as they watch them from the full. day of what's all that racket. lugar's you are simply get to bed now.

yes. sure wars can be hardy creatures sure you're used. to anything. i think of but the true definition of. these modern day knights of given the roles of the nineteenth century convicts they do. there is a museum dedicated to dostoyevsky in the city of on the right to serve his prison term exhibits their feet to the life of convicts under the czarist regime on display as shackles overcoats and irons that we used to make faces. described as penal servitude as the most terrible years of his life. more than ten million

inmates serve sentences in gulag prison camps during stalin's repressions many were forced into slave labor of construction sites like inmates including those who had been pulled their own political charges were made to mine minerals and chop down trees soviet prison colonies were built in faraway places with harsh climates talking about inmates rights was to boot in those years only since the end of the gulag system of reforms being possible. shrug the first step is to stop glorifying criminal culture but a question you just stop repeated offenses if the second step is to try and rehabilitate those who serve their time and return them to normal society. it is morning in investigative isolation wards a few hours ago probably on off was told he would be taken to a penal colony. shortly before he was due to go. he decided to visit the wards

church it was built only recently. should have been easier. then around. to go. once but to go to. your full name of a legal move. leon often other inmates are driven across moscow in a special. after that they will be taken for the train specially designed to transport complex. number one. on the back down i guess. the one. and two planes. gets into the carriage.

the compartment has no windows there a boss instead of doors guards believe that too many precautions can never be taken to transport dangerous criminals. three times a day the passengers are given boiling water and packaged meals they're in for a one way trip to a destination is unknown. i get the feeling. you know where we are going. i've got no idea what will happen. the only thing that is on my mind is my family. this train has two hundred kilometers of journey ahead of it to morrow. would arrive at his new home.

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the next morning campoli own office into a special i did for a high security company the first time. first the inmate has taken to the current team room his spectator and given prison issued clothes. shoes his uniform a emphasise forty two a forty three yes that's right ok. now

has to meet the facilities cemetery conditions this includes a visit to the baba. in the pasta all inmates were shaved pulled nowadays this is no longer the case those behind bars are now even allowed to wear watches there are no restrictions on correspondents with relatives even. here folks work in what's called the industrial zone there's enough work. the good thing about the place is that the conditions aren't harsh. well. they're pretty much the same everywhere a little bit better in some places and worse on all those. are going to be a few people can adapt to any conditions.

leon normal spend a couple of weeks in the corn tin room. after that he will join other inmates living in a barracks. of the colony we all know will be offered the opportunity to learn a skill of his own choice. the moments it made me change is the quarantine room he becomes aware of a combination of. the old one and then you want the new system is taking shape in line with prison reform. we're planning to still type barracks into. this will cut down on in numbers time only to four or six inmates and. soon after leon off arrives at the colony he's allowed to make his first phone call home his wife and children have been waiting

a long time to hear from him. i love. you. you know what you do if i want to tell you that i'm in a correctional colony no. letter or you'll call later when they. might apply for parole sometime in the future. meanwhile. his time in another colony was already on today's crucial the commission is going to consider his case. as. they don't release you. know what i'm going to say to my family. i hope it'll be ok. the administration includes the colonies top brass and even the priest of the local

church. they will consider whether andre often has mended his ways and is ready to be his own master. the colonies chief warden is the commission chairman he poses very awkward questions to the inmate. so your parents will give you a flax and you wife will help you find a job what about you what are you going to do something on your own as soon as i was i think it's time he began providing feel parents and wife. the court will make the final decision on whether or not andrea will be set free colonies administration concedes that inmates are fully aware of their rights and take a firm stand to defend them. we need to build dozens of new prisons we have to install modern equipment to beef up security and we are and we also have to iron out how sentences ought to be served as to be more pragmatic more qualified for the

border. we have to reduce the enormous number of prisons and system as well. there's a unique colony for women in the urals but also houses the young children all the convicted mothers and their kids live apart many of the little ones have been born behind bars. babies live in the facilities kindergarten until the two years old while the mothers serve the terms they remain in the care of teachers and doctors. today the older children of visiting a mini zoo in the colony the same time the mothers feed the babies and take them for a walk. this is q my son carrie lee is six months old oh she's such a naughty child now let's put some clothes on you say we can go for what. i do.

colony stuff built a playground for children in the courtyard. the barking of watched dogs can be heard even handed. it is then you were but there's still she's by my side who are shelley old alone those nursing a lot is heaven and all the others we don't work because we have got no time for that you doing more research you'll be two years old when my terms here comes to an end. lena hopes she will not need to tell her son that he grew up in a colony she would like the boy to have happy memories of friendly teachers rather than barbed wire. polly on off is one of the new arrivals headed for the high security colony in the region here is make yourself comfortable. has joined other inmates after a quarantine period. pavel has been issued with bed linen and chained to his bunk bed the. inmates tell him about life inside on the low monday.

puzzle how are you. going to solve you do from now it's much better. it's a world apart from her a. used to be from. various of the when i first turned up here things were pretty bad. or sort of the the toilet and the washbasin were out in the courtyard for instance. one life is easy enough. inmates walk about a barracks inhabited by some one hundred people powerful is going to spend many years in the surroundings. this is the medical bank of the most is the cloak room. the inmates working in the industrial zone leave their belongings here. for some it's a day off they watch t.v. read books all played backgammon in the lounge.

for sure all are being made andre off and i service him i'm ready to hear your decision about my possible bro. and rafa nassif future now depends on the court ruling. judges will soon convene for a special session in the commons. we have come to the conclusion that inmate after nice year is ready for parole because he's firmly on the we need to being reformed so the rehabilitation is possible without him being isolated from society. twenty four hours later and rapha nassir will leave the colony the long awaited call home the first article. by my mum course ruled in my favor as they should let me go tomorrow. thanks

a lot healthier schools me all this time. very happy and i know everything you've gone through now make sure you get home safe and sound. andre is about to set off those many months of confinement and now behind to. tell you it's like america. this is the first day of probably almost two t's in the colony. all inmates here must do a job of one kind or another. has

been assigned to the sewing workshop in mates make things ordered by various enterprises and get paid for that work. doesn't go to unfold twice there's no more than three said to me just. because you do that to each new office. and here you make the see that's all you're through what about the laundry. you don't need anything day. put on the end. do. a teacher from a vocational school sit side by side with the owner of the inmate picks up the practical skills fairly quickly. but these medical bands of four cats and all the pets must be there with live. i mean the administration allows people to take the job of their choice. by ford making such things would be

the easiest. off to his shift pavo returns to his barracks he will stay there for seventeen years. and throughout that time all he will see from the window is a tall fence surrounded by barbed wire. no doubt he will reflect on his past and try to find a way to start his life anew. welcome to the. what makes a big splash in the world of high tech business what turns events science into i can cheap products they don't understand. is he's got the follow russian innovators

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ten am in the russian capital you watching r t on marina joshie a senior advisor to the afghan president has been assassinated by the taliban in the capital kabul one of the country's lawmakers was also killed in the attack the deaths come less than a week after a hummock karzai his half brother who ran the south of the country was gunned down the taliban is stepping up its assault on afghan officials as nato combat troops begin their withdrawal from the war zone but u.s. intervention expert stephen leatherman says washington will once to keep its grip on afghanistan because waging war is looking to. residents out on the street with a small security detail not a practical a marine division mc i see him he wouldn't last five minutes the resistance in afghanistan want to liberate a country don't take any opportunity they can to tug any official it any level

in any time not only under one hundred thousand u.s. troops about thirty or forty thousand other troops there are well over a hundred thousand private security contractors you never know it was discussed in the major media so combat forces may come out of private security forces may go in to take their place america wages wars not just to win them but to wage them because the profits are so great the war profiteers want these wars waged ten billion dollars we know of poor down a rathole every month besides the regular affairs appropriations for the afghans for all of us defense operations this is money down or apple going to go to war profiteers analysts also say the violence in afghanistan is being precipitated by local security forces which contain drug addicts and those connect.