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they need their slaves in makes it monday to re for a convert to be taken to a corrective institution located in the region where he lived before. and if you're who 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 one 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 just as the person is. everything older yes
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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 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. people with
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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
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russia north a few hundred dostoevsky he wrote it after a period of exile on hard labor in siberia. a fuse and the engine character in the book is played by sorrow and disenchant we see this shot of the lives well this is the love 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. what's all that racket. lugar's you are simply get to bed now.
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yes. rewards people can be hearty creatures sure well yeah. they can adapt to anything. i don't think 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 feats 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
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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. shrug the first step 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
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church it was built here only recently. should have put it here. turn around. what's that. leon often other inmates have driven across moscow in a special. radio . up to that they will be taken for the train specially designed to transport companies. number one. on the back down and yes. number one.
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and two planes. gets into the carriage. 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 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. would arrive at his new home. hungry for the full story
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the next morning properly on off gets into a special i did for a high security company the first time. first the inmate is taken to the coroner is a spectator and given prison issue. which
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is uniform you will forty three yes that's right ok. now has to meet the facilities cemetery conditions this includes a visit to the baba. in the pasta 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 either. this is for all here folks who 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
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everywhere a little bit better in some places and worse and all those. around you your. people can adapt to any conditions. leo noble spend a couple of weeks in the corn team 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. well known the old one and then you want to steer more. taking shape in line with prison reform. planning to. type barracks into. this will cut down on inmate numbers time
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only to 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 love. you. i want to tell you that i'm in the correctional colony. when they. are. pavel leon of might apply for parole sometime in the future. meanwhile andrei often asked. his time in another colony was already on today's crucial the commission is going to consider this case of the very nervous. interest well if they don't release you.
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i don't know what i'm going to say to my family. i hope it will be ok. the administration includes the colonies top brass and even the priest of the local church. they will consider whether andre often asks if his 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 without you when you go to do something on your own as soon as i was in 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
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a firm stand to defend them what we need to build dozens of new prisons video that we have to install modern equipment to beef up security review and we also have to iron out how sentences ought to be served as to be more pragmatic more qualified immunity for the border. we have to reduce the enormous number of prisons in 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 . today the older children of visiting a mini zoo in the colony the same time the mothers feed their babies and take them
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for a walk. this is q my son carrie lee is six months old only she's such a naughty child that you know the let's put some clothes on you so we can go for what it was. but i don't. call in the staff built a playground for children in the courtyard. the barking of watchdogs can be heard even hand. it is then you were but there's still she's by my side for shelley old alone knows the nursing a lot is heaven and on the other is we do 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 us on the t. grew up in a colony she would like the boy to have happy memories. friendly teachers other than barbed wire. have a layoff is one of the new arrivals headed for the high security colony in the
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region here is make yourself comfortable. has joined other inmates after a quarantine period. pavel has been issued with bed linen and chained to his bunk bed. inmates tell him about life inside on the luminary. puzzle how are you. go from here to 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. or sort of the toilet and the washbasin were out in the courtyard for instance. one life is easier now. 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 base
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of the most is the playground. 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 under a often i service here i'm 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 he's ready for parole because he is firmly. the we need to being informed of the rehabilitation is possible without being isolated from society. twenty four hours later than
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draft a massive relief the calming the long awaited cold hard the first up to the cool. course ruled in my favor. to let me go tomorrow. for a solo for no pierce close me all this time. i'm very happy and i know everything is going through your book to make sure you get home safe and sound. andre is about to set 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 the inmates make things ordered by various enterprises and get paid for that work. doesn't leave gold to unfold twice there's no more than three centimeters. because you do that to each new office. and here you make the see that's all this is true what about the laundry. you don't need anything. they're. put on the. 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 a. group of. the administration allows people to take the job of their choice. but this one making such things would be the easiest. off to 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 oh. no doubt he will reflect on his past and try to find a way to start his life anew. emission
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