the next lesson 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 region a hundred kilometers from moscow another inmate is awaiting a decision that may change his life his name is andrea 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 pass without incident is the worst you ever thing no to 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 slim a 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 reformed. still that's why i've also. russia's federal penitentiary services the government body that oversees the country's prisons colonnades 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 rafa now syria is serving a sentence in a column. for 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 oh you into the building. 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

russian north a field or dostoyevsky he wrote it after a period of exile on hard labor in siberia. a fuse and the engine character in the book was played by sorrow and disenchant we see dish out of the lives 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 floor. what's all that racket. lugar's you are simply get to bed now.

yes. sure wars people can be hearty creatures sure you're used. to anything. you think but that's 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 desirous tracing 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 a 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. truck the first step is to stop glorifying criminal culture but it question it again just stop repeated offenses if the second step possibly 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 here recently.

should have put it here. in a round. what's that to go. leon often other inmates are driven across moscow in a special. rated you'll. have to doubt they will be taken for the train specially designed to transport companies. number one. on the back down i guess. number one.

and two planes. gets into the carriage. the compartment has no windows or a boss instead of doors guards believe that too many precautions can never be taken transporting 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 i'm on a ride to nowhere. i don't know where we are going. is headed i've got no idea what will happen musicianship 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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a stalemate in the sand made those bombing campaign in a ditch and taking down the rebels have only hardened political facts on. the first so. the most so says. the next morning the family almost gets into a special bomb headed for a high security colony the first time. to eat. first the mh is taken to the quarantine room is a spectator and given prison issued clothes. for the mission his uniform. will forty three yes that's right. ok.

on off now house to meet the facilities sanitary conditions this includes a visit to the baba. in the pasta all inmates were shaved bald 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 either. this is here folks work in what's called the industrial zone there's enough work to be a good thing about the places that the conditions are not harsh. well. they're pretty much the same everywhere. better in some places and worse on all those. really 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 it will be offered the opportunity to learn a skill of his own choice. the moment it made me change is the quarantine room he becomes aware of a combination of. the old one and a new one. 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 the numbers only two four or six inmates will be handed in each.

soon after a layoff 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. no but i love. i want to tell you that i'm in a correctional colony no. letter or you'll call later when they allow me to. provenly on of might apply for parole sometime in the future. meanwhile andre often. serving his time in another colony was already on today's crucial the commission is going to consider the case. of the very nervous. if they don't release you. i don't 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 without you when you go to do something on your own as soon as i was listening i think it's time we began providing feel parents and wife. the court will make the final decision on whether or not andrea will be set free by the 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 video so 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 in human issues of the border. we have to reduce the enormous number of prisons and our system as well. this is a unique colony for women in the urals but also houses they young children although 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 at the same time the mothers feed their 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 you know let's put some clothes on you so we can go for a while. but i do. colony stuff built a playground for children in the courtyard. the barking of watched dogs can be heard even hand. it is then you will but there's still she's by my side her shelley old alone those nurses not is heaven and on the other is we do work because we have got no time for that to. 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. friendly teachers rather than barbed wire. have a layoff 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 shown to his bunk bed . inmates tell him about life inside on the low monday. puzzle how are you. going to stop you do from now it's much better. it's a world apart from how it used to be from. the years of the when i first turned up here things were pretty bad. were 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 bay 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 or play backgammon in the lounge. for sure all are being made andre often a service here and 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 is firmly. and we need to being informed of the rehabilitation is possible without him being isolated from society. twenty four hours later than draft a massive relief the calming the long awaited cold hard the first article.

my mom calls ruled in my favor. to let me go tomorrow. so often opiates close me all this time. very happy and i know everything you've gone through your book to make sure you get home safe and sound. andres about sets off those many months of confinement and now behind to. tell you it's like a miracle. 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 the inmates make things ordered by various enterprises and get paid for that work. doesn't have. to unfold twice the truth is no more than three centimeters. does you do that each new office . and here you make the see that's all the fruit what about the lawn. you don't need anything. there are put on the end. of. 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 bans are

for cats and other pets who live. in the administration allows people to take the job of their choice. by george making such things would be the easiest. after 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. forty two thousand americans die each year from car accidents for me a thousand cuts costs seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will

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a very warm welcome to you this is a line from moscow 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 well the deaths come in a week the hum of coals lies hauffe brotherhood around the south of the country has gone down the taliban is stepping up its assault on afghan officials as they take home but chiefs begin their withdrawal from the will say but u.s. intervention expert stephen lyman says washington will want to keep its grip on off down a sound because waging war secretive. if. the president came out on the street with a small security detail not a practical a marine division mc i'd see him he wouldn't last five minutes the resistance in afghanistan want to liberate

a country so take any opportunity they care to tie did anything any level in any term not only under one hundred thousand u.s. troops about thirty or forty thousand other troops there are well over one hundred thousand private security contractors and you never hear is this just in the major media so combat forces may come our 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 one of these wars waged ten billion dollars we know of poor down a rathole every month besides the regular defense appropriations for the afghans for all of us defense operations this is money down or apple going to the war profiteers whining little things faith upon and after then.