face the wall. spread your legs wide of. the new legislation makes it monday to re for a convict to be taken to a corrective institution located in the region where he lived before. are you sure he will be 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 to 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 this was the first. ever thing 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 it's. now believed that i have reformed. still that's why i've also rolls. russia's federal penitentiary services the government body that oversees the country's prisons colonnades 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. being housed together with hardened criminals and

rafa is serving a sentence in a colony of 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. 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 are 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 russia north a few hundred dostoevsky he wrote it after a period of exile on hard labor in siberia. a few sing this in character in the book was played by sorrow and disenchant we see dish out of the lives this is the love of 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 full. day what's all that racket. lugar's you are simply get to bed now.

yes. sure wars people can be hardy creatures sure you use they can adapt to anything. i 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 desire a stray sheen 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 of construction sites like inmates including those who had been pulled their own political charges were made to mine minerals and chop down trees so if you have 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 just stop repeated offenses if the second step. and rehabilitation 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 in recent. should have put it here. to go. leon often other inmates are driven across moscow in a special. rated will. after that they will be taken for the train specially designed to transport companies. number one. on the back down i guess. number one.

and two planes. gets into the carriage. the compartment has no windows or a boss instead of doors dogs believe that too many precautions can never be taken transporting dangerous criminals. three times a day to possum just a given boiling water and packaged meals they're in for a one way trip to a destination is unknown. i get the feeling i'm on a ride to nowhere. 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 kilometer journey ahead of it to morrow. would arrive at

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of the. 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 spectacles and given prison issued clothes. 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. 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 or a little bit better in some places and worse and all those. are going to be. 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. the old one and then you want the new system is taking shape in line with prison reform. we're planning to still type barracks into. this will cut down on inmate numbers only to four or six inmates and 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 mean correctional colony know.

when they allow me to. properly on all of might apply for parole sometime in the future. meanwhile. serving his time in another colony was already on today's crucial the commission is going to consider the 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 what about 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 courts will make the final decision on whether or not andre will be set free coney's 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 we have to install modern equipment to beef up security and we are and 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 in our system as well.

it is a unique colony for women in the urals it 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 of 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. call in the staff built a playground for children in the courtyard. the barking of watch dogs can be heard even handed. it is then you were using but there's still she's by my side her

shelley old alone knows the nursing a lot is heaven and she and all the others we don't work because we have got no time for that to. be two years old when my terms here comes to an end. alina 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. of 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 the. inmates tell him about life inside on the monday. puzzle how are you. going to solve your book now it's much better. it's

a world apart from her a. used to be more. of a use of the 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 most 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 a service here and ready to take

a decision about my possible role. and rafa now serves 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 is ready for parole because he's firmly on the we need to being reformed so the rehabilitation is possible without him being isolated from society. called aged. twenty four hours later and rafa nassir will leave the colony the long awaited call home the first after the cold. hi mom course ruled in my favor as they should let me go tomorrow. thanks a lot for helping our schools me all this time. very happy and i know everything you're going through now make sure you get home safe and sound.

andre's about sets off those many months of confinement and now behind to. tell you it's like america. 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. does you do that each new office. and here you make the sea ice that's all you're through what about the laundry. you don't need anything there to 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 bands of four cats and all the pets mostly through a group of course i mean the administration allows people to take the job of their choice. but short of making such things would be the easiest. off to his shift pavo returns to his barracks he will stay there for seventeen years. yes 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 followed up on my death you'll get all the. names are sort of a throwback and archaic part of our law. and it goes back to a time when people would light out of their forces in the wild lands and pick up these fugitives important to mention the sheriff from prosecution the luck company may follow. him when they go out there he's got weapons.

and you have to hope that nothing bad. will and. we're chasing killers and you gotta keep that in mind others a two million dollar bill for his arrest. but not super hero they can be killed to you know they shoot me in the head i'm going to die. and. once you've had run you know never go back to hide anything else. twenty years ago in the largest country in the world to some to crazy to. what had been trying. to teach began to journey. where did it take to. lose your disciplinary on. education. were. could the penitentiary system transform a criminal into

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these news and this week's top stories on our t.v. grief and despair in norway as the country mourns the victims of its first ever terrorist attack the suspect admits to killing dozens of the twin terror atrocities . and i'm just very brave exist because i know more than knowing two people was necessary and he was acting alone one of the details in a few moments. protests in madrid over spain's debts and unemployment queues further shaking the euro's future despite the new efforts to save the troubled currency. and rupert murdoch faces investigation in the u.s. in two more alleged phone hacking by his media firm that softer being grilled in

britain over the scandal that shocked police and politicians and the press. just after midnight in the russian capital you're watching our chief thanks very much for being with us now our top story the entire norwegian nation has been shaken by friday's killing rampage as a country mourns the ninety three people massacred in the also bombing and youth camp shooting a prime minister yet stoltenberg has said the two days since the attacks started to hours days and nights filled with shock and cry artes of daniel bushell reports now from the capital all slow. of mourning there's a memorial service behind me attended by king harald of norway looking very somber the prime minister of norway says that the two days since the tragedy have seemed like an eternity the people of tents they're still trying to understand how

something like this could have happened and the police say they'll still looking there's potential there are more victims to be found on the island is also just outside there is criticism rising for the police that it took them from an hour to an hour and a half to actually find the to find the killer and to stop the massacre so there is criticism of all storage fees over this over this tragic incident the suspect has admitted the crime he said that he wanted to change in society that he wanted to force revolution that it was an atrocious but necessary act to make the norwegian people realize and the society realize that it's going wrong he said it's not a crime more details are emerging about the suspect himself who posted a rant a fifteen hundred page rant on the internet saying how he went to various countries czech republic in the european union with its lax gun laws is what he said to look for guns and he.