Issue # 13-2007. Content

The first material of the issue is the memoirs of Vladimir Kuzemko where the author describes vividly his personal experience of the work in law-enforcing bodies, accentuating the main problems of today Russian milicia.

Some materials of the first part of the magazine are dedicated to the problem of a new quick and serious growth of the prison population in Russia. The problem is analyzed by well-known sociologist and criminologist Yakov Guilinski in his article Overtake and surpass?

Vasilii Malinin in the material The strong must not be stronger than weaks speaks on the unconsidered reform of the penitentiary system that can break down of the working activities in penitentiary institutions.

A well-known social psycologist, professor Valeria Muhina in the article Is the prison antagonism total? analyzes the role of prison psycologist in penitentiary system, insisting that under certain circumstances the prison psycologist can become mediator between prisoners and warders.

As in the last issue we publish the monitor of protest actions in Russian penitentiary system last months.

The Director of the Centre for the reform of criminal justice comments the disorders in the famous prison in S.-Petersburg Kresty and analyzes the causes of today riots in Russian colonies.

In small fiction pieces by Aleksandr Mulenko The rut and Great steppe authors vivdly describe the life conditions of today Russian prisoners.

The second part of the magazine Beyond the wall consists of the materials on the problem of taday psychiatric repressions in today Russia. In particular, here is covered the recent much-talked of case of the Human Rights activist Larisa Arap from Murmansk (materials by Yuri Savenko, Elena Basilieva and Albina Skripnik).

In two materials by Maksim Prytkov in the following part of the magazine Here I stand the experience of the Human Rights control in prisons and investigation of the cases on the violence of Human Rights by law-enforcing bodies.

In the part History we publish interesting memoirs of Serguei Hodorovich, the head of Solzhenitsyn Foundation for help to prisoners in the past, about the volonteers of this Foundation.

The last part Post mortem is dedicated to the 80 anniversary of prison poet Valentin Sokolov.

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