The psychological spread of the morals of the penitentiary system in modern Russian society is due to the fact that in every day, everyday experience any citizen is not immune from the fact that he will have to face powerlessness in relation to people vested with power.
The sources of the penetration of prison laws and concepts into the everyday life of Russian citizens who have no personal experience of imprisonment, of course, can be found in the history of the country, where not every second, but generally everyone had a chance to become innocently convicted.
Since on one-sixth of the land for many decades, upholding the concepts of “protecting human rights” and “presumption of innocence” in itself was considered a suspicious fact.
Background
In the long days of Soviet Stalinist terror, there was not a single family that somehow did not come into contact with the zone: either from prisoners - relatives, close and relatives, or from guards - people serving in the ramified Gulag system. People were born, grew and brought up, one way or another, daily saturated with everyday, everyday role-playing experience, enclosed in a coordinate system "guard-guarded." The whole country lived "at the zone, at the camp."
From this system, society entered the rules of life according to “prison concepts”, which consists of several postulates: the cult of power, the cult of perverted justice, which includes the cult of punishment for justice, romanticizing the image of a person who has served time.
