Convicts live two lives in cells each, have the opportunity to read, sometimes to watch television. In the colonies you can get an education, get a job, but with a particularly strict regime it is almost impossible to do.
After the abolition of the death penalty in Russia, people who have committed particularly serious crimes receive life sentences. In such prisons, a particularly strict internal routine is established, and security is also working in an enhanced mode.
In our country there are seven places in which such prisoners live. In the colonies, the cameras are periodically repaired, hospital buildings are functioning, and the opportunity to earn money is provided.
Inner order rules
They are common to most colonies, if there are differences, they are insignificant. The rules include:
- movement within the prison with a convoy of the FSIN;
- living in cells of two people each, but especially dangerous prisoners are placed in solitary confinement;
- everything that happens on the territory is recorded using video cameras;
- walks are carried out in special concrete rooms.
To move around the territory, criminals stretch their arms behind their backs, they are handcuffed. In some cases, an eye mask is used to prevent light from entering.
Convicts are required to comply with legal requirements, comply with behavioral standards and sanitary rules, treat staff and other convicts with courtesy, and appear at the first call of the colony administration or bodies that carry out the punishment.
How is one day in prison?
Awakening begins at six in the morning. After the morning treatments, breakfast time comes. A feeder opens, through which food is transmitted. It may differ in prisoners depending on medical indications. In the morning porridge is given, for lunch - soup, second and compote, for dinner - porridge, juice, potatoes, fish. Food is taken at a small table.
If the prisoner was allowed to get a TV from relatives, there is an opportunity to watch it or read books a little. The latter are regularly delivered to cameras. It is time for lunch and walk. Before the last check occurs. Each “lifelong” must breathe fresh air for at least an hour. This is an opportunity to smoke.
Public service hours are usually allocated before or after lunch. At the same time, there is an opportunity to learn a profession.
Toward evening, a period of water procedures begins. When a person ends up in the shower room alone, handcuffs are removed through a special window. Here you can immediately cut your hair. The rebound occurs at 22.00.
Are dates allowed?
In the first ten years, it is allowed to receive one package and visit two short-term information with relatives a year. The latter occur within a few hours with protection through the glass and the telephone receiver. If during this time social ties do not completely break off, two three-day and two packages per year are added to two dates. After another 10 years - three short-term, three long-term meetings and four parcels per year.
In the first 10 years, convicts are held for life in special regime colonies under special conditions. Go to the colony where a milder regime after this period is possible, but it is necessary not to get penalties from the administration during this time.
In practice, it is very difficult to do, because the punishment may follow an uncleared cell or other misconduct. In addition, by the end of the first decade, there is a loss of communication with the world "outside the zone." Wives manage to create new families, children forget, parents grow old or die.
Long visits take place in the colony’s premises in a hotel-type building at the expense of the convict’s relatives. You can bring food, drinks with you. Glass containers are prohibited. There is no way to go beyond the designated area. Long meetings are allowed only to family people or supply managers by a detachment. Do not refuse them:
- to parents;
- sisters and brothers;
- to children.
Labour Organization
At all times, sewing was one of the priority activities in prisons. Almost the entire form of employees and guards is sewn by prisoners. Responsibilities are shared. Some stitch furs, others make blanks, others stitch, "bring to mind."
Most prisoners like work. This is an opportunity to distract from problems, change the type of activity. Life prisoners in Russia are charged for such activities. There is an opportunity to get a specialty.
In addition to clothing in prisons, work was also organized on the manufacture of shoes. This goes through the conveyor system - in one day a shift of 10 people can flash 10 pairs of shoes. Prisoners undertake any kind of work, since for many it is an opportunity to earn parole.
Some colonies have established production:
- bedding;
- wooden kitchen utensils;
- furniture;
- cinder blocks;
- building materials.
There is work in garages, gardens or a sawmill. The conditions and activities depend on the policy of the prison where the prisoners are located.
Part of the manufactured products remains in prison, the other part goes to ordinary shops. Thanks to cheap labor, the cost of production is low. In stores for the same reason, you can buy it at very affordable prices.
Communication and entertainment
Contacts between prisoners from different cells are completely excluded. With a particularly strict regime, mass events, for example, sports, are not held. In some colonies, TVs are not allowed. In this case, prisoners have the opportunity to read and write. Particularly successful are the volumes of Russian classics. Prisoners often read Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov.
