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rector institution located in the region where he lived before. are you sure it will be 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 passed without incident this was the first you'll 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
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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. a number leave that over four. point zero still that's why i've also. russia's federal penitentiary services the government body that oversees the country's prisons colonics 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 colony for people with a history of several crimes.
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this is a high security prison colony in the urals two thousand kilometers east of moscow many of the inmates here a murderous 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 stars have decided to open a new season with an adaptation of notes from the house of the dead restored by russia north a few hundred dostoyevsky he wrote it after a period of exile on hard labor in siberia. a few sun this week in character in the
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book is a play 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 should they
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can adapt to any and very. i think that's the true definition of lunacy. these modern day knights have 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
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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. truck the first step is to stop glorifying criminal culture but a question yet he has stopped 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.
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should have been easier. to go. once but to go back. to full name of a little much. leon often other inmates are driven across moscow in a special. rated you'll. have to that 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.
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the compartment has no windows or 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 the 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 kilometer journey ahead of it to morrow. would arrive at his new home.
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for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice ceased to face when the news makers on the t.v. . the next morning tom foley on off gets into a special headed for a high security colony for first time. first the inmate is taken to the quarantine room his perspective given prison issued clothes. shoes his uniform
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emphasize for which he 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. booey. 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 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 or a little bit better in some places and worse and all those. around you your.
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people can adapt to any conditions. leone novel 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 movements and made me change is the quarantine room he becomes aware of a combination of. the old one and the new ones to. taking shape in line with prison reform. we're planning to still type barracks into. this will cut down on in the numbers time only two
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four or six inmates will be enhanced 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 want to tell you that i mean correctional colony know. when they. might apply for parole sometime in the future. meanwhile andrea. serving his time in another colony was already on today's crucial commission is going to consider the case. of the very nervous. if they don't release you.
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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 think it's time he began providing feel parents and wife. the court will make the final decision on whether or not i'm dr 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 video we have
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to install modern equipment to beef up security and we i mean 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. it is 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 their two years old while the mothers serve their 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
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is six months old oh she's such a naughty child you know the let's put some clothes on you say we can go for a walk. but i don't. call in the staff built a playground for children in the courtyard. the backing of watchdogs can be heard even hand. it is then you will but there's still she's by my side crucially old alone those nursing mothers haven't and all the others we don't work because we have got no time for that to. be two years old when my terms here comes to an end. bellina 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 bob while. polly on off is one of the new arrivals headed for the high security colony in the region here
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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 the. inmates tell him about life inside on the luminary. 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 but i first turned up here things were pretty bad. or sort of 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
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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 broke. 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 on the we need to being informed. of the rehabilitation is possible without him being isolated from society. twenty four hours
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later than draft a massive will leave the colony the long awaited call home the first after the call . my mom calls ruled in my favor they should let me go tomorrow. makes a lot healthier school see me all this time. very happy and i know everything you've gone through now make sure you get home safe and sound. meeting. andres about sets off those many months of confinement and now behind to. tell you it's like a miracle. this
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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 makes make things ordered by various enterprises and get paid for that work. doesn't have. to unfold twice there's no more than three centimeters. because you do that to each new office. and here you make the sea stocks rules the fruit what about the longer. you don't need anything day to put it on the end. to do. a teacher from a vocational school sit side by side with the owner of the inmate picks up the
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practical skills fairly quickly. but these medical bands of four cats and other pets most of the record i'm in the administration allows people to take the job of their choice. by short making such things would be the easiest. off to his shift pavo returns to his barracks he will stay there for seventeen years. he is 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
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your. ten pm monday night here. and first another day another skull the news of the world scandal continues to unravel britain's second most senior police officers now quit following the example of his boss who resigned on sunday revelations they hired a former news the world executive was a media adviser there exits no more pressure on the prime minister david cameron also hired a forwarded from the same paper. reports. the feeling on the ground here in london is that this is an unfolding scandal not one which is drawing to an end every day there are more allegations more arrests and more resignations and this missiles we've seen the countries to top police officers resign in the last couple of days over the relationship of the police with the news of the world nice paper and there
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are several reasons for that the first is that police obviously closed an investigation into phone hacking back in two thousand and nine saying that there was no evidence to support it and of course we've also seen allegations that police including offices a senior is detectives were involved in accepting bribes from journalists at the news of the world in an exchange for tipoffs allegedly now when the assistant commissioner yates resigned he says that the news of the world had been uncooperative in that original inquiry but that he never lied and that's all the information that he's provided to parliament about the phone hacking scandal up to now was in good faith but m.p.'s widely dismissed that evidence is unconvincing and they said that this was not the end of the matter so we will see further questions on the relationship between the police and the news of the world and of course in the next couple of days we'll see a peep.

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