ladyarkles
07-12-2007, 10:10 PM
The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) organized an Open House Day at a number of penal colonies - for men and women, drug addicts and HIV patients, foreigners and lifers - in Ryazan and Mordovia.
Our first stop was in Ryazan at a female correctional colony for juvenile delinquents ages 14 to 18.
Presently, there are 247 teenage girls at the colony, three of whom already have children. The crimes most "popular" amongst the inmates are manslaughter, followed by robbery and theft. Almost all of the inmates come from low income, broken homes.
MISS (PRISON) CHARM
The colony is surrounded by a three-meter high fence with two rows of razor wire inside. The compound comprises several barracks, a church, club and a school.
The inmates had been anticipating our visit and we were treated to a kind of prison beauty pageant, entitled ‘Miss Charm,' although ‘Miss Captivity' might have been more appropriate. "We usually hold the event on March 8 [International Women's Day]," Col. Aleksandr Davydov, the colony warden, told us proudly.
Please read the full report here: Moscow News (http://mnweekly.ru/lifestyle/20070420/55152809.html)
Our first stop was in Ryazan at a female correctional colony for juvenile delinquents ages 14 to 18.
Presently, there are 247 teenage girls at the colony, three of whom already have children. The crimes most "popular" amongst the inmates are manslaughter, followed by robbery and theft. Almost all of the inmates come from low income, broken homes.
MISS (PRISON) CHARM
The colony is surrounded by a three-meter high fence with two rows of razor wire inside. The compound comprises several barracks, a church, club and a school.
The inmates had been anticipating our visit and we were treated to a kind of prison beauty pageant, entitled ‘Miss Charm,' although ‘Miss Captivity' might have been more appropriate. "We usually hold the event on March 8 [International Women's Day]," Col. Aleksandr Davydov, the colony warden, told us proudly.
Please read the full report here: Moscow News (http://mnweekly.ru/lifestyle/20070420/55152809.html)