changes are already in place behind the barbed wire and will modernization benefit both the inmates and prison staff. court convicted pavel leon 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 pawel is due to be transferred to a prison colony. face the wall. spread your legs were done. in the next sleigh ssion makes it monday to re for a convict to be taken to a corrective institution located in the region where he lived a full. and your what 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 ter 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 andrzej often assume. is the day passed without incident as the first is that. everything older 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 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. russia's federal penitentiary service is the government body that oversees the country's prisons and clinics 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 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 in captivity . to show emotion how you enter the building. don't miss 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 stars have 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 a period of exile on hard labor in siberia. a fuse and the 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 people can be hearty creatures sure you're used. to anything. 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 the right to serve his prison term exhibits their feet to the life of convicts under desirous tracing on display a shackles over coats and irons that we used to mates 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 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 step is to stop glorifying criminal culture but a question you just stop repeated offenses if the second step. 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 only recently. should have put it here. in a round. to go fat. what's that to go bad. if.

leon often other inmates are driven across moscow in a special. rated roll. up to that they will be taken for a long journey in the train specially designed to transport companies. number one. on the back down and yes. number one. and two planes. 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 their destination is unknown. 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 in these years. 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. the live news.

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the next morning tom foley on off gets into a special headed for a high security colony the first time. first the inmate is taken to the quarantine room his spectator and given prison

issue it's. his uniform emphasize for which he will forty three yes that's right ok. on off now house 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. for over here folks work in what's called the industrial zone there's enough work to the good thing about the places that the conditions aren't harsh. well. they're pretty much the same everywhere

a little bit better in some places and worse on all those. around you for your book 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 it made me change is the quarantine room he becomes aware of a combination of. your was born in the old one and then you want to. taking shape. line with prison reform. planning to turn all

type barracks into. this will cut down on numbers time only two four or six inmates will be. soon off to me on all the rides of 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'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

his case of the very nervous you. will 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 andrea fanaa c.f. 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 where 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 a firm stand to defend them no more we need to build dozens of new prisons 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 as boeing you know. this is a unique colony for women in the urals 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 the mothers serve the terms they remain in the care of teachers just. 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 q my son carrie lee is six months old only she's such a naughty child say you know the let's put some clothes on you so we can go for a while. 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 who are shelley old alone and those nursing mothers have been and all the others we do work because we have got no time for that. when one were to be two years old when my terms here comes to an end. galina 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. friendly teachers other than barbed wire. have

a layoff 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 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 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 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 bay. and this is the cloak room. 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 andre often our service here and 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 colony. we have come to the conclusion that inmate after nice year is ready for parole because he is firmly. on the way to being reformed for the rehabilitation is possible without him being

isolated from society. twenty four hours later than draft a massive will leave the calling the long awaited cold hard the first. high school stroll in my favor. should 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. andrea is about to set 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 teams 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 souls of those from what about the larger pool you don't need anything. put it on the end.

of. 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. are mini ministration allows people to take the job of their choice. by short making such things would be the easiest. after his shift convo 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. if

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the grand imperial truly the torch was the. sea don't need to go and. read this in the kennel was her job as a treat. today's news on the week's top stories on odds he suspected a right wing extremist held by norwegian police admits that he carried out the deadly bombing in oslo and the massacre a youth camp in the country's first ever terrorist attack. and this very brave week says he was acting alone and the killing of more than two people will. bring more details in a few moments. rupert murdoch faces investigation in the us into a more alleged phone hacking by his media that's off to being grilled in britain over the scandal that shook police politicians and the press. the e.u. reaches out a helping hand it to greece agreeing on

a new bailout but the clouds and gather around the troubled euro amid a stormy mood in spain also struggling with severe financial. you're watching the weekly here on r t with me sushi welcome to the week's top stories norwegian born and has but it has told police the attacks that killed nineteen people were quote necessary the extreme right wing nationalist has admitted he was behind friday's bombing and shooting spree at the country's first ever terrorist attack bushell reports. the suspect has admitted the crime he says it was an appalling yet necessary act and he adds that it was needed to shake up norwegian society he claimed it wasn't a crime more details are emerging about the suspect that he posted a bizarre fifteen hundred page book where he says how to make

a bomb and i quote once you decide to strike it's better to kill too many of the multi nuff or you risk reducing the desired ideological impact of the strike there are also violent anti muslim views on that site now to just remind you what happened there was a call bomb here explosion here in the city center government headquarters and just a few hours later apparently he traveled just outside to an island where gathered in a police uniform he took the children around him he had a gun because of the blows to here the children were expecting there were lots of policemen with guns around at the time so they weren't surprised by that and then he began to shoot shouting i'll kill everyone everyone must die now we have new pictures of us women as people swimming full survival. for their lives hiding in the rocks of a ten year old boy being rescued today is a day of mourning there's a memorial service being held just a few hundred meters from here in all.