the movie joins me that shows a movie that's the gateway to the grand imperial. george weston bush clearly until you can the let's watch will close with it you see don't need to go and look silly and read this in the cool was that you know as used to retreat. welcome back here's a recap of today's news and this week's top stories on r.t. grief and despair in norway as the country mourns the victims of its first ever terrorist attack the suspect tells police the vine three deaths were quote grew somewhat but necessary. and the e.u. region saw the helping had to greece agreeing on a new bailout but here's remain about the future of the euro as thousands are protesting the spain i guess the government's handling of its own international books. and rupert murdoch faces investigation in the u.s.

and two more alleged phone hacking by his media firm that's out there he was grilled in britain over the scandal that has shaken up police politicians and the press. all coming up next we investigate russia's prison system but ask can it really turn a hardened criminal into a law abiding citizen well that's our special report coming up next. up up up. and complaints. against the cash. pulse of life for the sake of my wife and kids. going to such as to one out of every four men russia has served time in prison currently nearly nine hundred found inmates serving time in prison colonies most of them have committed serious crimes now a days when convicts enter the current chief see

a mix of the old penitentiary system and then you. initially the russian penal system had inherited the legacy of stalin's notorious killers. but now it is going through a period for the likes of which have never been seen before. everyone here has to decide whether or not they're going to change their ways should go 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 begin mates and prison staff. court convicted coverly owner 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 pavol is due to be transferred to

a prison colony. face the wall. spread your legs right up. in your sleigh ssion makes it monday to read for a convict to be taken to a corrective institution location in the region weightlifters for. unusual where i'd like to be closer to home to lead 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 the most the wall i don't want prison to destroy me i want to remain who i am here. in the to the region one hundred kilometers from moscow another inmate is awaiting a decision that may change his life his name is andrei often r.c.f. 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. is true for inmates only on duty andrzej a fantasy of more is the day passed without incident this was the first.

everything over the years was going to have a lake 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 in 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 it's. when i believe that all of reforms. will still that's why there. also roles. russia's federal penitentiary service is 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 enough chevys serving a sentence in the 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 running captivity. 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 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 a story by russia north a few other dostoyevsky he wrote it after a period of exile on hard labor in siberia. a few thing this week in character in the book was this is a play by sorrow and disenchantment we see dish out of the lives well this is a movement that 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 floor. i. am.

a what's all that racket. lugar's you are to get to bed now. yes. people can be hearty creatures sure you're used to shoot to kill or death really very. eluding of us the true definition of a war because you. have given the rules of the nineteenth century from big stage you. there is a museum dedicated to just to have ski in the city of almost where the right to serve his prison term exhibits their feets the life of convicts under the czarist regime on display as shackles overcoats and ions that we used to his face is.

just we have skin described as penal servitude as the most terrible years of his life. more than ten million inmates serve sentences in a gulag prison camps during stalin's for oppression many were forced into slave labor of construction sites like inmates including those who had been put on political charges were made to mine minerals trees soviet prison colonies were built in faraway places with harsh climates talking about inmates rice was to boot that she is only since the end of the gulag system of reforms being possible. truck the first step is to stop glorifying criminal culture 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 bill said recently. should have put it here. sent around. took a fat. one step to go back. to full name of probably almost. leon often other inmates are driven across moscow in a special. radio . comes out they will be taken for a long journey on the train specially designed to transport companies. number one. on the back down i guess up.

number one. and two planes oh no that's a carriage on. the compartment has no windows they're a boss instead of doors guards believe that too many precautions can never be taped 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. because you knew that. 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 new year's. the only thing that is on my mind is my family. this train has two hundred kilometers of journey

ahead of it tomorrow possibly on would arrive at his new home. the luck. of the losers.

today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of china that. look for asians or they. see.

a. six. the next morning couple leon off gets into a special headed for a high security colony the first time. first the inmate has taken to the foreign team room his inspectors and given prison issue but it's. his uniform aim high school 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. booey. let's go straight.

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 either. this is for all here folks who 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 shooting here. well. they're pretty much the same everywhere all of them better in some places and worse and all those. really few. people can adapt to any conditions. leona will spend a couple of weeks in the corn tin room where after that he will join other inmates living in

a barracks. of the colony we all know it 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 who came here with. the old one and then you want. new system is taking shape in line with prison reform. we're planning to type barracks into. this will cut down on inmate numbers only to four or six inmates in each cell. soon after leon 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 mean correctional call and you know. you'll call later when they. are. tarver leon of might apply for parole sometime in the future. meanwhile andre often asked if he was serving his time in another colony was already on today's crucial the commission is going to consider his case of the very nervous or you. would if they don't release you. don't know what i'm going to say to my family. i hope it'll be ok if. the administration includes the colonies top brass and even the priest of the local church. they will consider whether andrea fanaa stepha's mended his ways and is ready to be his own master. colin is chief

warden is the commission chairman he poses very awkward questions to the inmate. oh it was just so your parents will give you a flack and your wife will help you find a job for you when you go to do something on your own as soon as i was i think it's time he began providing feel parents and wife. the courts will make a 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 defend them. we need to build dozens of new prisons we have to install not an equipment before security we i mean we also have to iron out how sentences ought to be served as to be more pragmatic more qualified in your marriage for the border. we have to reduce the enormous number of prisons in our system as well with polio because. this is

a unique colony for 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 their mothers serve 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 their babies and take them for a walk. this is a cue that my son can really is six months old he's such a naughty child you know let's put some clothes on you so we can go for a walk and. i do. call in the staff both a playground for children in the courtyard. the barking of watch dogs can be heard

even ham. it is then you will but there's still he's done my sight for shelley old alone those the nursing mothers haven't changed and all the others will work because we have got no time for that you're doing more we should be two years old when my terms here current student. elina 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 barbed wire. as 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. puzzle how are you. both of you for now it's much better. of this world

apart from how i used to be more. of a use for the boys first turned up here things were pretty bad. for three of the toilet and the washbasin were out in the courtyard for instance of. course. one life is easier now which. inmates walk about the barracks inhabited by some one hundred people a couple is going to spend many years in the surroundings. this is the medical bank of the mystic like with. 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 service here and ready to be a decision about my possible role. and rapha 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 made after a nice year he's ready for parole because he's firmly on the way to being formed for the rehabilitation is possible without me 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 of the cool. guy among course ruled in my favor as they should let me go tomorrow. or face a loaf l.p.s. course me all this time. i'm very happy and i know everything you've gone through

your book a bag no make sure you get home safe and sound. and praise about to set off those many months of confinement an hour behind. well you it's like a miracle. this is the first day of probably almost two days in the colony. all inmates here has to a job of one kind or another. has been assigned to the sewing workshop in mates make things ordered by various

enterprises and get paid for that work. doesn't have. to unfold twice because there's no more than three seconds just. cause you do that to each new office. and here you make the see that's all there's a fruit what about the large. you don't need anything they're still put 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 bans are for cats and other pets. of course i mean the administration allows people to take the job of their choice. by ford 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 or. no doubt he will reflect on his past and try to find a way to start his life anew. if you're qualified the film i doubt you'll get it in those. letters are sort of a throwback and part of our law. and it goes back to a time when people would lie down in their forces in the wild lands and pick up these huge and it's important to mention the sheriff for prosecution there's no other like company man telling. him when they come up there is cop weapons.

and you have to hope that nothing bad can. put. forward facing killers and if you feel to keep that in mind others the two million dollar bill because the rest. were not superheroes be can be killed too you know they shoot me in the head i'm going to die. and. once you hunted ran you know never go back to hunt anything else. twenty years ago this country and. the circumstances of the first. one had been instrumental to the speech on a journey. where did it take the. flu sure disciplinary punishment as new key. words

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