tv [untitled] July 23, 2011 11:30pm-12:00am EDT
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seven thirty am in moscow zero g. had lost ninety four people now confirmed killed in friday's attacks in norway as details of the massacre and the man charged with the crimes begin to emerge. anders behring breivik a thirty two year old norwegian arrested earlier has confessed to both the shooting on which way i learned to end the bombing in central oslo he's especially of links to a far right organization and was strongly opposed to immigration and islam. and as
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greece's credit ratings are threatened with being downgraded and washington takes a step toward defaulting on its national debt analysts say it's the men on the street who eventually have to pay for the government's excessive spending ages public opinion on both sides of the let. up next we investigate russia's prison system to see if it's capable of turning a criminal into a law abiding citizen is coming your way next in our special report stay with us. up. and complain. on. the carriage. pulse of life the sake of my wife and kids. going just to just takes one out of every four man rushes served time in prison currently nearly nine hundred found inmates serving time in prison colonies most of them have committed serious crimes no isa when convicts enter a quarantine see
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a mix of the old penitentiary system and the new. initially the russian panel system had inherited the legacy of stalin's notorious good. announces 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 now edging toward 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 and prison staff. convicted coverly owner of masterminding the murder of a fellow businesswoman consumptions ten to seventeen year olds he has spent several months in one of moscow's investigative isolation wards now pavol is due to be
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transferred to a prison colony. base the world. spread your legs wider. than either slayton makes it monday to re for a convert to be taken to a correct or institution location in the region weightlifter for. an interview or when i'd like to be closer to home celeb i kid 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 the most of all i know one person to destroy me i want to remain who i am here. in the to the region 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 . good for inmates only on duty andre often assume.
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is the day passed without any stages of bristol but if you know everything order yes 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 the courts 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. when i believe that all of reforms. will spoil that's what i've also rolls. russia's federal kind of potentially 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
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a new law prohibiting fledgling inmates being housed together with hardened criminals and draft enough chevys serving a sentence in a colony for 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 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 come to . the show emotion oh you enter the building it's douglas around four hundred people around. you know what it's like. on face value this is just another colony
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but unlike others inmates here run their own theater this time in prison stossel decided to work on a new season with an adaptation of notes from the house of the dead a story by russia north of fewer dostoyevsky he wrote it after a period of exile and hard labor in siberia. of peace and the comedian each character in the book was virtually does a play by sorrow and disenchant we see the shadow lives well this is the love of 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 have artistic talent others can get emotionally involved with the characters on stage as they watch them from the floor. i. am.
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a what's all that racket. lugar's you are simply get to bed now. yes. rewards people can be hardy creatures you're used to should become and that's really very much. you think about the true definition of a. these motions knights of given the rules 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 feats the life of convicts under the czarist regime on display
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as shackles overcoats and the means to his faces. just to have skin describe his 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 put on 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 on those he is only since the end of the gulag system of reforms being possible. truck the first step is to stop glorifying criminal culture because she knew he just stopped 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
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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 towards church it was built in a recent. should have put here. turn around. to go back. once but to go back. to full length probably only if. 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 complex. number one zero zero zero with the back down and yes.
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the one. and complains oh yes into the carriage. 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 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. away the train is headed i've got no idea what will happen musician. the only thing that is on my mind is my family along. this train has two hundred kilometers of journey
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ahead of me tomorrow but probably almost want to arrive at his new home. if you're followed up on my doubt. on a sort of a throwback and our kids part of our long. and it goes back to in time when people would bite out of their forces in the wild west and pick up these fugitives and put him in some the sheriff for prosecution there's no money the company may. kill. him when they go out there to stop weapons. and they have nothing. to do and. we're
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forty two thousand americans die each year from car accidents from the thousand for seventeen thousand people. and thirty two thousand will. themselves cancer in all its forms because five hundred sixty thousand of us here part disease is even more devastating it shows over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year. from. today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the hall has been seeing from the streets of kandahar from china operations are all day.
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first the inmate is taken to the corn chamber his inspected and given prison issue clothes. shoes his uniform aim high school he will forty three yes that's right ok. coverly on off now has to meet the facilities sanitary conditions this includes a visit to the baba. booey. let's go. in the past all inmates were shaved bulls 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. before over here folks work in what's called
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the industrial zone business work. the good thing about the place is that the conditions are and should be. well. they're pretty much the same everywhere a little bit better in some places and worse and all this. money but people can adapt to any conditions. leo noble spend a couple of weeks in the corn tin room. after that he will join other inmates living in a barracks. other colony the owner of will be offered the opportunity to learn a skill of his own choice. moments in made me think is the quarantine room even becomes aware of a combination of. the old one and then you want.
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new system is taking shape in line with prison reform. we're planning to turn all still type barracks into. this will cut down on in the numbers time only two full or six inmates will be handed in each. soon after leon of 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. my love. for you. i want to tell you that i mean a correctional colony. when they. are. pavel leon of might apply for parole sometime in the future. meanwhile andrei often have to serve in his time in
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another colony was already on today's crucial the commission is going to consider his case with a very nervous career. in school if they don't release you. i don't know what i'm going to say to my family. but 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 asked if his mended his ways and is ready to be his own master. cullen his chief warden is the commission chairman he poses very awkward questions to the inmate. pose which is why it's 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 the sooner the house and
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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 of ministration concedes that inmates are fully aware of their rights and take a firm stand defend them no more we need to build dozens of new prisons video we have to install modern equipment to beef up security and we also have to iron out how sentences ought to be served and so as to be more pragmatic more qualified immunity for the true. we have to reduce the enormous number of prisons in our system as well with boeing you know because. this is a unique company to women and the urals is 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 they're two years old while the mothers serve their terms they remain in the care of
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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 for 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 walk. but i don't. call in the staff both a playground for children in the courtyard. the backing of watchdogs can be heard even handed. it is then you were at this job she's by my side who are surely older you won't post nursing a lot is having tantrums over here is we don't work because we have got no time for that you know when was three years old when my terms here constant. bellina hopes she will not need to tell her son that he grew up in
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a colony she would like the boy to have happy memories of friendly teachers rather than barbed 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 . inmates tell him about life inside on the monday. i am puzzled how are your. toes are beautiful now it's much better. it's a world apart from how i used to be more from home for various of the when i first turned up here things were pretty bad i. was there for the toilet and the washbasin were out in the courtyard for instance. born. ok. so here one life is easy enough. inmates walk about
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a barracks inhabited by some one hundred people powerful is going to spend many years in the surroundings. this is the medical bank. for mr clegg. 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 or play backgammon in the lounge. for sure all are being made andre often a series here and ready to be a 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 to begin major after nice year he's ready for parole because he's firmly
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on the we need to be a new forms for the rehabilitation is possible without him being isolated from society. colleges. twenty four hours later than dramma nassir will leave the colony was a long awaited call home the first after the cold. try a moment course ruled in my favor this is let me go tomorrow. they so often ok in schools me all this time. i'm very happy and i know everything you're going through your book but no make sure you get home safe and sound. from. home andres 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 almost to she's in the colony. all inmates here let's 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. let it go to unfold twice there's no more than three seconds just. because you do that each new office . and here you make the see that's all there's this room what about the large
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building you don't need anything there 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 these medical bands of four cats and other pets the most miserable group of course are merely a ministration allows people to take the job of their choice. by ford making such things would be the easiest. after his shift couple 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. twenty
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