Posts Tagged ‘prison’

30
May 2011

In Russia, Prisons for Police Thrive

New York Times

NIZHNY TAIGIL, Russia — Like a scene from a felon’s daydream, all the inmates at a prison compound here in western Russia — some 2,000 of them — are former policemen, prosecutors, tax inspectors, customs agents and judges.

Most of the day, they mill about, glum-faced, dressed in prison clothes. The only visible hints of the policemen’s former employment are the occasional buzz cuts.

Russian penitentiary authorities offered a rare tour of this specialized penal colony recently with an eye to demonstrating that these inmates receive no privileges.

In some ways, the officials proved their point. At least as far as accommodations go, the prison is as grim as most. Inside the walls of unpainted concrete slabs, barbed wire slashes the prison yards into zones for those doing hard time and minor offenders. And like the men and women they put behind bars, former police officers here live in rough-hewn brick barracks, toil in a workshop and eat boiled buckwheat and cabbage.

But the tour of the prison, Correctional Colony 13, also underscored a point that the authorities might not have intended to highlight: most of the inmates are here for work-related infractions, from accepting bribes to attacking suspects.

As Andrei V. Shumilov, a former detective, said of his conviction for beating a suspect with his fists during questioning: “I was investigating a crime, and I committed a crime myself.” By way of justification, he mumbled that the man had suffered only “damage to soft tissue.”

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27
October 2010

Mortality in Russian pretrial jails drops by 21% in 4 years

Interfax

26 October – Mortality among inmates in Russia’s pretrial detention centers has dropped by 21% for the past four years and makes up a little more than 20% of the general nationwide death rate, said the head of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service, Alexander Reimer.

In an interview posted on the agency’s website, Reimer argued that, due to recent legislation allowing crime suspects who are in custody and suffer from serious diseases to be released, “the situation will keep improving.”

Mentioning the death in a Moscow jail in November 2009 of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer for the Hermitage Capital investment fund, Reimer claimed that quite often the reason why detainees and convicts die is that they find out they are chronically ill after being arrested.

Magnitsky, 37, died at Moscow’s Matrosskaya Tishina prison on November 16, 2009. He was being held on charges of tax evasion. His death caused widespread public outcry. The Investigative Committee started an inquiry into his death on charges of “not aiding a patient” and “negligence.” But rights activists claimed that Magnitsky’s death had not been investigated in earnest.

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