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any complaints. against the. pulse of life for the sake of my wife and kids. come to statistics one out of every four men in russia has served time in prison currently nearly nine hundred thousand inmates are serving time in prison colonies most of them have committed serious crimes nobody says that when convicts came to a currency to see a mix of the old penitentiary system and the new. initially the russian penal system had inherited the legacy of stalin's notorious killers. but now it is going through a period for the likes of which have never been seen before. because everyone here has to decide whether or not they're going to change their ways and i think the world needs to see that it's happening what kind of changes are already in place behind the barbed wire and will modernization benefit both the inmates prison staff
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. court convicted coverly own of masterminding the murder of a fellow businessman and sentenced him to seventeen years he has spent several months in one of moscow's investigative isolation wards now pavol is due to be transferred to a prison colony. face the world. spread your legs were. in the next place in makes it monday to refer the convict to be taken to a correct or institution location in the region weightlifter for. any 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 know one person to destroy me i want to remain who i am here. in the to the region
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a hundred kilometers from moscow another inmate is awaiting a decision that may change his life his name is andrei 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 andrzej often assume. what is the day pass without a stranger's persist you everything in order yes that's going to have a good deal of time is likely to pass between inmates request for parole and his release first the county's administrative commission must consider his case even if they turn his request down in 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. when i believe that i have reforms for oil
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spill that's what i've also role. russia's federal penitentiary service is the government body to fight overseas the country's prisons own 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 a nazi i was 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 on 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
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things are run and come to visit. the show imagine oh you enter the building. don't do this around four hundred people around. 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 work on a new season with an adaptation of notes from the house of the dead restored by russia north a few other dostoyevsky he wrote it after a period of exile of hard labor in siberia. of peace in the media in your character in the book was this is a play by sorrow and disenchantment we see dish out of the lives this is the love of the youth this is what we want to convey to the audience because that the administration encourages inmates to take part in the club's performances if they
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have artistic talent others can get emotionally involved with the characters on stage as they watch them from the floor. i. am. a what's all that racket. lugar's you are to get to bed now. yes sure warsh people can be hardy creatures sure you're used to shoot to kill or death really very. you moving a bus the true definition of a. these modern day
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knights of given the roles of the nineteenth century convicts they do. there is a museum dedicated to dostoevsky 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 of shackles overcoats and the use to his face is. just to have skin describe his penal servitude as the most terrible years of his life. more than ten million inmates serve sentences and who like prison camps during stalin's repressions many were forced into slave labor of construction sites like inmates including those who had been put that on political charges were made to mine minerals trees soviet prison colonies were built in faraway places with harsh climates talking about inmates rights was to goon that was his only since the end
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of the gulag system of reforms being possible. truck the first step is to stop glorifying criminal culture because she has stopped repeated offenses if the second step at that basically 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 to be taken to a penal colony. shortly before he was due to go he decided to visit the wards church it was built in a recent. shooting put here. then around. to go back. one step to go back. to full a would probably.
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be on often other inmates are driven across moscow in a special. way to do all. of that they will be taken for a long journey in a train specially designed to transport companies. number one. on the back down and yes. number one. complains all go yes to the carriage on. the compartment has no windows there are bars 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
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a one way trip to the destination is unknown. i get the feeling i'm on a ride to nowhere. i don't know where we are going. always a train is headed i've got no idea what will happen new years. the only thing that is on my mind is my family i'm on. this train has two hundred kilometers of journey ahead of tomorrow possibly on the want to arrive at his new home. rushers that's a much. more libya scale than the say nato bombing campaign and. the rebels have only hardened political.
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first the inmate has taken to the quarantine room his spectator and given prison issued clothes. to his uniform aim high school he will forty three yes that's right ok. on off now has to meet the facilities sanitary conditions this includes a visit to the baba. probably. the west coast. in the past 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. if you are all here folks work in what's called the industrial zone there's enough work to do
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a good thing about the places that the conditions are not all or should he. well. they're pretty much the same everywhere a little bit better in some places and worse on all those. when you feel like people can adapt to any conditions. we all know will spend a couple of weeks in the corn scene room. after that he will join other inmates living in a barracks. the colony will be offered the opportunity to learn a skill of his own choice. the moment you need me to enter the quarantine room he becomes aware of a combination of. the old one and then you want to hear more of the new system is taking shape in line with prison reform.
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planning to. type barracks into. this will cut down on in numbers only to four or six inmates and each. soon after leon overrides the colony he's allowed to make his first phone call home his wife and children been waiting a long time to hear from him. i love. you. i want to tell you that i mean correctional colony know. i'll send you a letter or you'll call later when they. are. coverley on earth might apply for parole sometime in the future. meanwhile andre often who is serving his time in another company is already on today's crucial the
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commission is going to consider his case. very nervous or you. just would if they don't release you. or don't know what i'm going to say to my family. i hope it'll be ok if. the administration includes the colonies top brass and even the priest of the local church. they will consider whether andre often asset 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 your 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 and i think it's time you began providing feel parents and wife. the courts
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will make the final decision on whether or not andree will be set free coney's administration concedes that inmates are fully aware of their rights and take a firm stand to defend them no more that would pull through we need to build dozens of new prisons we have to install not an equipment to beef up security or we are and we also have to iron out how sentences ought to be served so as to be more pragmatic more qualified immunity should. we have to reduce the enormous number of prisons in our system as well. this is a unique colony for women in the urals it's also houses they young children although convicted mothers on their kids live apart many of the little ones have been born behind bars. babies live in the facilities kindergarten until they're two years old while the mothers serve the terms they remain in the care of teachers and doctors. today the older children the visiting
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a mini zoo in the colony at the same time the mothers feed their babies and take them for a walk. you know says he q my son carrie lee is six months old she said she's not a child to say you know let's put some clothes on you so we can go for what you. like you. calling me staff built a playground for children in the courtyard. the back in the watchdogs can be heard even handed. it is then it was the case still she's by my side personally old alone those nurses not as having tantrums all the artists will work because we have got no time for that you doing one which should be to use all too intimate terms here constant. elina 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 friends or teachers other
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than bob wire. polly on off as 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 monday. puzzle how are you. going to solve your bills now it's much better. because it's a world apart from how it used to be flown. to various of the boys first turned up here things were pretty. well through the toilet and the washbasin were out in the courtyard for instance. born. one replies is easy enough to ship. inmates walkabout of barracks inhabited by
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some one hundred people pavel is going to spend many years in the surroundings. this is the medical bank the famous is the pleasure of. the inmates working in the industrial zone and leave their belongings here. for some it's a day off they watch t.v. read books all played that game in the lounge. for sure all are being made andre often a serious game i'm ready to hear your decision about my possible role. 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 been made after a nice year he's ready for the role because he's firmly on the way to being
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misinformed good the rehabilitation is possible without him being isolated from society. called aged. twenty four hours later than draft will leave the colony a long awaited call home the first of the call. the moment holds true in my favor as they should let me go tomorrow. they sell off l.p.s. course me all this time. i'm very happy and i know everything you're going through here to make sure you get home safe and sound. from. home and raise about sets off those many months of confinement and now behind.
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tell you it's like a miracle. this is the first day of probably on all stooges in the colony. all inmates here let's do a job of one kind or another. couple has been assigned to the sewing workshop in makes make things ordered by various enterprises and get paid for that work. to unfold twice there's no more than three seconds to. charge you that each new office. and here you make the see so that's all from one above a lot of. you don't need anything they're still put on the.
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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 v.a.'s medical bands of four cats and other pets. of course i mean the administration allows people to take the job of their choice. by ford making such things would be the easiest. after his shift 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. it
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