Issue # 20-2009. Content

The issue opens with Foolhardy Garry, a short story by Aleksandr Mulenko about life in penal colonies.

Section Punishment of the Society contains statistical data on crime in Russia in January-September 2009.

Two short stories by Max Mahmag describe dreams and holidays in an investigative isolation ward.

We also present Prisons of the World, a piece by Yuri Aleksandrov about UN statistics for various countries where torture is used, shortage of prisons in Belgium, e-management in a Dutch prison, and conditions in Polish prisons.

We continue publication of sketches by Alexandr Khnykov with a new selection titled The Men of Zone-2.

We publish official data on the penitentiary system as of November 1, 2009

The subject of death penalty with its advocates and opponents is analyzed by Yuri Aleksandrov.

Documentary Reds and Blacks by Dmitri Morachevski describes «interior» wars among inmates of Russian penal colonies. These conflicts are provoked by so-called activists who accept rewards and benefits from prison administration.

The issue continues with the monitor of the Foundation To Protect Inmates: situation in prisons, protest actions, record of human rights violations for the period of September through November, 2009.

Discussion of prison reform proposed by the new management of the Russian penitentiary system is covered in the section titled From the Lips of the Superiors. In this issue we have included materials of a theoretical and practical conference on the reform of penitentiary system, including a report by the new director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Aleksandr Reimer.

In the literary section we present an abstract from a book by Eduard Kocherguin, an announcement of Igor Sutiaguin’s book Halfway to Siberia and a review by Aleksei Mokrousov of a book of memoirs of former inmates of Norilsk called On Time, Norilsk, and Ourselves...

Nevolia. Issue # 20-2009. Print version (PDF, Russian)