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There are 33 item(s) tagged with the keyword "prison".

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11. Excessive Restraint a New Norm?

Law enforcement in Samara has begun regularly using leg shackles for courtroom defendants.

Tags: prison, human rights, law
12. One Prison to the Next

Russian prisoners with military experience are being recruited to join the fight in Ukraine.

Tags: prison, war in ukraine, NGOs, prisoners, military
13. Summer Fun at a Russian Prison

Penal Colony No. 7 in Bashkiria is in the market for a "towed water banana." Exactly why is anyone's guess.

Tags: watersports, prison, corruption
14. Crimes Against Hu-mine-ity

A Russian teenager faces 5 years in jail for crimes committed in Minecraft.

Tags: crime, terrorism, video game, teenagers, prison
15. Copperfield? I Hardly Know Her!

“Usually, to put money on a card, you need an ATM; with magicians, everything is much simpler: just rub a coin and it becomes invisible.”

– Eugene, at Nevyansk prison, as he shows off a magic trick.
Tags: law, Urals, prison, magic
16. Statues, Beer, and Prison Heads

Our bimonthly roundup of news on Russia most others missed.

Tags: kaliningrad, art, prison, baikal, lenin
17. A Premature Celebration

A Krasnodar man, sentenced to serve time for theft, marked his release by doing what he does best.

Tags: krasnodar, prison, alcohol, police, crime
18. Dostoyevsky in Siberia and Beyond

Dostoyevsky spent ten years of his life exiled to Russia's Eastern hinterlands. Beyond the Urals, there are several places that shaped Dostoyevsky and influenced many of his greatest works of literature.

Tags: prison, Kazakhstan, barnaul, tyumen, Omsk, exile, Siberia, history, author, literature, dostoevsky
19. Not Cu-Cumbersome for Prisoners

It looks like a penal colony in Russia’s Oryol region has met the challenge of prison reform with a solution as cool as a cucumber.

Tags: inmate, prisoner, prison reform, convicts, prison, gardening, cucumber
20. New GULAG?

Russian authorities have found a new way to boost the country’s sluggish economic growth while also solving the shortage of construction workers: prison labor.

Tags: BAM, siberia, gulag, prison

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