in colonie. face the wall. spread their legs wide. they need their slave makes it monday to re for a convict to be taken to a corrective institution located in the region where he lived before. and usually 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 prison to destroy me i want to remain who i am here. in the region one 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 pass without incident this is 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's 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. when i believe that all of reforms. will still that's why i've also rolls. russia's federal penitentiary services the government body that oversees the country's prisons and pollinates a year ago it launched a program to resettle many of its inmates. one hundred fifty thousand convicts were relocated in line with. new law prohibiting

fledgeling inmates being housed together with hardened criminals and draft a nazi of his serving a sentence in a colony for people with a history of several crimes. this is a high security prison colony in the uro's 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 and captivity. to show emotion how you enter the building. doggedness around four hundred people around you. 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 dostoyevsky he wrote it after a period of exile on hard labor in siberia. a few songs in character in the book is a plague by sorrow and disenchant we see dish out of the lives this is this is what we want to convey to the audience. 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 . i. am.

sure what's all that racket. lugar's you are simply get to bed now. yes. sure wars hero and behold the creatures you're used to should they can adapt to any very. thing but that's the true definition of. these modern day knights are 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 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 a question you need to stop repeated offenses if the second step is to try and rehabilitate for 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. i should have put it here. in a round. to go back. once but to go back. to full name of. leon often other inmates are driven across moscow in a special. rated role. after 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. and complains all 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. to me if. i get the feeling i'm on a ride to nowhere. i don't know where we are going. always the train is headed 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

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the. children. in israel. 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 quarantine room his spectator and given prison issued clothes. shoes his uniform

a emphasize for which he will forty three yes that's right ok. on off now house to meet the facilities cemetery 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. for 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 and all those. around you your.

people can adapt to any conditions. leo 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 moment it 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

four or six inmates will be handed in each. 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 want to tell you that i mean correctional colony know. 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. very nervous. if they don't release you.

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 flak 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 colonies administration concedes that inmates are fully aware of their rights and take a firm stand to defend them but we need to build dozens of new prisons video we

have 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 . there's 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 a visiting a mini zoo in the colony at 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 so we can go for a while. but i do. colony stuff built a playground for children in the courtyard. the barking of watchdogs can be heard even handed. it is then you will but there's still she's by my side who are shelley old alone those nursing a lot is heaven and all the other is we don't work because we have got no time for that you doing more 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. 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 shown to his bunk bed the. inmates tell him about life inside on the monday. puzzle how are you. going to solve it you do for now it's much better. it's a world apart from how are you. used to be more from. a very useful 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 mystic like. 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. or sure all are being made andre often i service him i'm 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 he's ready for parole because he's firmly on the we need to being reformed. the rehabilitation is possible without him being isolated from society. twenty four hours

later than drafter nassir will leave the colony the long awaited call home the first article. by my mum course ruled in my favor they should let me go tomorrow. thanks a lot healthier scorsone me all this time. i'm very happy and i know everything you've gone through 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

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. jars you do that each new altar. and here you make the see that's all your fruit what about the longer. you don't need anything day zero to put on the end. do. a teacher from a vocational school sit side by side with the almost didn't make picks up the

practical skills fairly quickly. but these medical bands of four cats and other pets most miserable of course i mean the administration allows people to take the job of their choice. by short making such things would be the easiest. after 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 oh. no down to reflect on his past and try to find a way to start his life a new. culture is that so much different if you should visit israel to find the mark when libya is

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of the show to see don't need to go publicly and read this in the kennel was her job as a retreat. a former news of the world a journalist who was the first to name names in the phone hacking scandal is found dead at home a near london death the police say is unexplained but not suspicious it's the latest twist in a spiraling political crisis going all the way up to prime minister david cameron. and violence persists in afghanistan as three more nato soldiers are killed following the assassination of an aide and a half brother of president karzai last week just as the alliance begins handing over control to local forces in parts of the country. and the russian security forces for all the major terror attack on the moscow regions transportation system which could have resulted in huge loss of life. next to peter lavelle asks his

guests why the strongest military alliance can't remove colonel gadhafi for more than four months now that's our debate show cross talk next right here on alt. if you can. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle libya's stalemate in the sand and nato bombing campaign and aid to anti kadafi rebels have only hardened political facts on the ground western intervention was intended to last a few weeks now is open ended instead of dislodging khadafi nato allies are left to bicker among themselves. to. cross the nato mission in libya i'm joined by io johnson in london he is the founder and director of viewpoint africa also in london we have marco gas like he

is a political analyst an expert on south east european affairs and in barcelona we crossed to omar asher he is a lecturer in politics of the modern arab world at the university of exit are all right gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want omar i'd like to go to you first in barcelona how would you assess nato's operations in libya to date because depending on the new source you want to read it stalemate it's quagmire. we've coming across reports of rebels committing human rights. violations they're not looking so pretty anymore and it's just basically a civil war that has come to a stalemate so how would you assess nato's operations to date well if that's a civil resistance campaign to a dictatorship that somehow turned into an armed conflict because that was the choice of. the logically does intervention came out of you know no necessity.