Skip to main content

tv   [untitled]    July 18, 2011 4:31pm-5:01pm EDT

4:31 pm
slayton makes it monday to re for a convert to be taken to a corrective institution located in the region where he lived a full. and usual whom 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 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 little makes this possible . group for inmates only on duty andre often assume. is the day passed without incident which 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
4:32 pm
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. now believe that i have reformed. that's why i've also. russia's federal penitentiary services the government body that oversees the country's prisons and 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 the people with the. street of several crimes.
4:33 pm
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 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 other dostoyevsky he wrote it after
4:34 pm
a period of exile on hard labor in siberia. a few sun this week each character in the book is a plague 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 full. story what's all that racket. lugar's you are simply get to bed now.
4:35 pm
yes sure wars people can be hearty creatures sure you're used. to any free will. 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 where the right to serve his prison term exhibits their feet to the life of convicts under desirous tracing on display a shackles overcoats and irons that we use to make faces. dostoyevsky described his penal servitude as the most terrible years of his life. more than ten million
4:36 pm
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. the first 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 here recently.
4:37 pm
should have put it here. to go fat. was fat to go. leon often other inmates were 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.
4:38 pm
the compartment has no windows 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. 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. will arrive at his new home. culture is that so much of
4:39 pm
a given to each musician has the power of finding the mark left libya stalemate in the same nato's bombing campaign and aid to antagonize the rebels have only hardened political facts on. observe nature and discover its beauty. communicate with the wild. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you the. welcome to the what makes a big splash in the world of hi-tech business what turns advance science into i ching products they don't understand. is this guy we follow russian innovators to
4:40 pm
e.g. bidders abroad and their big breakthrough back home spotlight on story on technology update here on. we've got the future covered. wealthy british style stock. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report. download the official location to your phone on pod touch from the. one life on the go for. video on demand
4:41 pm
ati's minefield costs and feeds now in the palm of your. question on the. fifty. fifth. fixed. the next morning tom foley on off gets into a special i did for a high security company the first time. first the inmate has taken to the core and his spectacles and given prison issued clothes. shoes his uniform
4:42 pm
a emphasise forty two with forty three yes that's right ok. now has 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 even. here folks work in what's called the industrial zone there's enough work to do a good thing about the places that the conditions are not harsh. well. they're pretty much the same everywhere a little bit better in some places and worse on all those. really few.
4:43 pm
people can adapt to any conditions. leona will 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 moment and made me change is the quarantine room he becomes aware of a combination of. your was born and the old one and then you want to still. taking shape in line with prison reform. we're planning to still type barracks into. this will cut down on numbers time only to four or six inmates and each.
4:44 pm
soon after leo 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. i want to tell you that i'm in the correctional colony. i'll send you a letter or you'll call later when they. are. only on of might apply for parole sometime in the future. meanwhile. serving his time in another colony was already on today's crucial the commission is going to consider this case. of the very nervous. if they don't release you. know what i'm going to say to my family. i hope it'll be ok.
4:45 pm
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 as 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 we began providing feel parents and wife. the courts will make the final decision on whether or not under a 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
4:46 pm
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 you know. this is a unique colony for women in the year olds but also houses they 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 their 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. yes it is q my son carrie lee
4:47 pm
is six months old only she's such a naughty child you know the let's put some clothes on you so we can go for a walk. but i do. call in the staff built a playground for children in the courtyard. the barking of watched dogs can be heard even handed. it is then you were just killed she's by my side who are surely old alone those the nursing lot is heaven and all the others we don't work because we have got no time for that too when one was 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 of friendly teachers rather than bob wire. of a layoff is one of the new arrivals headed for the high security colony in the region hereis make yourself comfortable. has joined other inmates after
4:48 pm
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 you do from now it's much better. it's a world apart from how it used to be more. of the usual but i first turned up here things were pretty bad. or sort of the believe the toilet and the washbasin were out in the courtyard for instance. born. one group 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 mystic like. the inmates working in the industrial zone leave their
4:49 pm
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 i serve as him i'm ready to be a decision about my possible broke. and rafa nassif future now depends on a 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. called aged. twenty four hours later than draft a massive will leave the colony the long awaited call home the first after the call
4:50 pm
. my mom calls ruled in my favor as they should let me go tomorrow. thanks a lot healthier scorsone me all this time. very happy and i know everything you've gone through make sure you get home safe and sound. from. am under a is about to set off those many months of confinement and now behind. well you it's like a miracle. this
4:51 pm
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 makes things ordered by various enterprises and get paid for that work. to unfold twice there's no more than three centimeters. jars you do that each new office. and here you make the see that's all true what about the large. you don't need anything day to put it 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. medical bands
4:52 pm
of cats and other pets. of course mean the administration allows people to take the job of their choice. by short making such things would be the easiest. after his shift paavo 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
4:53 pm
two thousand americans die each year from car accidents will be a thousand. seven hundred thousand people murdered and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us here part is easy even more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every day here.
4:54 pm
is. just so. since. plug nation in free i couldn't take should be free transfer charges free. range minster free speech free elections to tide free.
4:55 pm
download free blog just plug in video for your media projects and free media and on to our t. dot com you. in
4:56 pm
4:57 pm
india on. the move to join. the gateway hotel the grand imperial truly.
4:58 pm
the kennel was a hotel retreat. cannot see a former news of the world journalist who blew the whistle on phone hacking at the british tabloid he's found dead at his home it comes as the storm around rupert murdoch's media empire turns its focus on the police and the prime minister. the taliban assassinates more high ranking officials in afghanistan as nato begins to hand over control of the country's provinces to local forces are facing huge question marks over that ability to cope. and russian security forces fall of major terror plot near moscow that it's probably could have caused a huge loss of life. life
4:59 pm
marty h.q. in central moscow thank you for being with us my name's kevin and it's now one am here on our top story a former news of the world reporter who was the paper's first ex employee to claim publicly that senior executives encouraged phone hacking has been found dead at his home sean hoare said the legal phone tapping was widely used as a means of finding stories of the former editor andy cools and that he denies lauren that has the latest from london. they found a body home in watford just outside london they say they are not treating the death as suspicious they don't think that any other party was involved but they say they are looking at the possibility that it might have been suicide now obviously this comes at a very unfortunate for the whole phone hacking scandal as it unfolds. as you said as a former news of the world journalists who worked on and. when he was editor of the news of the world and of course subsequently became david cameron the prime
5:00 pm
minister's communications director before he quit that post in january he was a show business reporter and he was the first named journalist to say that course and had been very aware and actively encouraged phone hacking during his time of the news of the world sean hoare told the new york times and also the b.b.c. that he was directly asked by andy cool to hack into phones in pursuit of stories that that was a practice that was actively encouraged to the paper and that during working on the course and he had actually played messages that he had particularly from a celebrity's telephone calls said of course that this was rubbish surely that was simply a cool. drink and drugs drugs and so on the news of the world at the time said to take his claims with extreme skepticism with a large pinch of salt last week.

26 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on