DUBAI: Meet the Russian prison wardens cell-bound inmates don’t mind being locked up by Voting is underway to find Russia’s most beautiful prison guard in the all-new Miss Penal System contest. The 12 finalists, each hoping to be crowned lock-up lady of the year, were chosen from 100 contestants who each won their local competitions, Russia Today reported.
Jun 9, 2021
After Russian officials bemoaned the collapse of migrant labor in the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the country’s prison service offered a solution: reviving the Soviet-era practice of putting convicts to work. Just don’t call it a gulag.
An association with one of the darkest chapters of the Communist past hasn’t deterred top bureaucrats, who’ve taken up the idea with enthusiasm. Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin recalled he once worked with prisoners at a brickmaking factory as he told an RBC news interviewer Friday that he’s in talks on using convicts at construction sites, a plan also endorsed by Industry Minister Denis Manturov.
Penitentiary Service In Siberia Removes Rights Groups From Inmate Torture Cases
June 03, 2021 12:15 GMT
In March, nine other probes were launched against prison officers over alleged torture of inmates in several penal colonies in the region.
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IRKUTSK, Russia Activists say Russia s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) in the Siberian region of Irkutsk has used a legal maneuver to keep lawyers from human rights groups from defending cases of alleged torture in the region s jails and penal colonies.
Rights activist Svyatoslav Khromenkov
told RFE/RL on June 3 that three lawyers for the Siberia Without Torture group had received official letters from the FSIN saying they had been given the status of witnesses in high-profile torture cases, which under Russia law makes it impossible for them to defend the inmates.