Not parole

Shakhovskaya Women's Colony No. 6 - one of the most famous in Russia is not parole. In the near future, the Constitutional Court must make a decision on the complaint of the former head of Menatep, Platon Lebedev, by the order of providing convicts of parole. Lebedev considers it illegal that the courts refuse the right to release those prisoners who do not admit their guilt. However, the humanism of judges rarely applies to less famous sidella. Why is the Russian prisoner, no matter how obedient it is in the camp, it is so difficult to get to the “call” - he recognized The New Times “Well, when will a small plane take me? I’ll fly over the ground - mountains and silence, ”the singer Valeria’s voice sounds over the Shakhovskoy female colony, drowning out the noise of hammering hammers - roofers put a new roof in one of the residential huts. The deputy chief of the colony for the educational part, Lieutenant Colonel Irina Katyrina proudly shows the correspondent of The New Times new buildings: “Here the father builds us a white -stone temple with a blue dome, the next fall will be opened. We open the new building for women serving time on lightweight conditions: we buy new wooden beds, showers. Look, our girls planted our roses, we wrapped them in the winter to survive under the snow. ”

Shakhovskaya Women's Colony - 40 minutes of eagle drive - one of the most famous in Russia. For many years, human rights activists have been watching the situation here, there are often journalists. They are always shown by the unusual sculptures of Svetlana Sasina: white bears, swans, dolphins ... This elderly woman sat in Shakhov for theft and vagrancy for several years, she took up creativity in the colony - they wrote a lot about her. After the release, she settled near the zone, but did not live long - she drank.

The court does not let Marina Kolyakova go to parole, because she does not admit her guilt

Potatoes in the bed in Shakhov are now 1078 women, all of them, except for pensioners, work in a factory. They sew a winter uniform for employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs according to the sketches of fashion designer Valentina Yudashkin. The factory should make 146 sets for the shift. The work is very hard, especially since not all convicts are professional tailors. You give a plan-you can hope that the colony administration will take into account shock labor when drawing up a characteristics for filing on parole and the court will be more favorable. But in practice, hopes turn around out.

A thin woman in a green suit, sewn at the factory of the same colony, 31 years old. Her name is Marina Kolyakova. She is from Mtsensk. She spent a little more than 9 years in the Shakhovskaya colony. The sentence is 12 years in prison. Marina's article is difficult - causing serious bodily harm. She never pleaded guilty, says that she did not commit this crime. And in the colony itself, Kolyakov is considered innocent, even employees. Her story is known to many: Marina twice justified the Mtsensky District Court, and for the third time condemned 12 years. The evidence was the same

* * “You will sit like potatoes in the garden”, The New Times No. 5 of February 15, 2010.

Two years ago, the Governor of the Oryol Region Alexander Kozlov petitioned for its pardon, but President Medvedev refused that. At the will of Marina is a thirteen -year -old daughter who lives with her grandmother.

“I am the chairman of the council of the collective of convicts,” Marya lists, “the foreman of the Close shop, 18 rewards. The colony recommended me at parole. But the Kromsky court and the Oryol Regional refused me. Now all hope is only for the Supreme and the constitutional. ”

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The Supreme Court has repeatedly indicated that non -recognition of guilt is not an obstacle to

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“Argumentizing the refusal of Udo, the judge of the Criminal Court indicated that Kolyakova did not admit guilt in the crime, and the unsuitable sentence is more than 3 years. And both of these arguments do not comply with the law, ”says lawyer Anna Stavitskaya. -Firstly, the Supreme Court has repeatedly indicated that non-recognition of guilt is not an obstacle to parole. Secondly, the legislator for that was invented for the convict to be released earlier than the end of the deadline. Only the behavior of the convict should be taken into account here, and Kolyakova’s behavior was impeccable. So the court grossly violated the law. ”

We talk with Marina in the room of psychological unloading. Here is beauty: a huge beige carpet on the floor, color music, plasma TV and DVD. When asked whether the psychologist happens to Marina, she replies: "There is no time, I work all the time."

A temple is being built in the Shakhov colony

“In our area, only those who have to sit for 4-5 months are released in our area,” says Kolyakova. - Women no longer have any incentive to work well. My daughter is 13 years old, she comes to me on dates, but she thinks that this is the hospital in which I am lying. And so for 9 years. "

According to the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, the convicted person has the right to ask for parole after he has departed either half the term or two -thirds, depending on the severity of the article. But in practice, this norm does not work. In the best case, they are released by parole, when half a year or a year remains before the release.

“We had such a Marina Petrunina, sat for drugs, she played the main roles in all performances, the colony petitioned for her, but the court released her only when she had only a few months left,” says another convicted person. - We know that the courts violate the decisions of the plenums of the Supreme Court, we learned them by heart. But what's the point? " Lieutenant Colonel Katyrin agrees with her: “Recently, the convicts have no incentive to behave well. Submit not to submit to UDO, they will still not be freed. ”

Sculpture "Alyonushka" work of the prisoner of the Shakhovskaya colony Svetlana Sasina

According to the press secretary of the Oryol Regional Court of Dina Yagupova, for 8 months of 2011, local courts were satisfied with almost half the petitions of the convicts. True, most of those who were released were left to sit for no more than a year. Only two were seized for 2 years.

“To satisfy or not satisfy the sentenced applications for UDO is the right, not the obligation of the court,” Dina Yagupova said in an interview with The New Times. -It so happens that a person, barely freed on parole, a few days later he commits a crime again, and it can be more serious than the one that he had previously served a sentence and was released by the court. Now in the colonies of the Oryol region of 4066 people 701 are those who were previously released at UDO, 17% of all convicts. ” According to human rights activists, judicial statistics are cunning here and does not give data on recidivists returning to the colony after imprisonment of the full period. “According to our polls, which my colleagues conduct in the regions, related among those who were released conditionally, twice lower than among those who have served the period from the call to the call and returned to the zone,” Andrei Babushkin, the head of the Committee for Civil Rights, told The New Times. “And the FSIN does not lead such statistics at all, because the UDO is in the competence of the court.”

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In different regions, almost the same prices are called for parole for “economic” - $ 10 thousand in 1 year. The cost of freedom "floats" when the "decisions" determine the price

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Work horses Sergey Bronnikov - the head of the Federation of weight sports of the Kirov region, often travels to the Kirov colonies. He is engaged in convicts. He knows the situation from the inside well. In his opinion, not only the judicial system is to blame for the difficult situation witho.

“When the convict submits a petition, he must agree on him with the chief of the detachment and the educational department of the colony, and they can pull it for months, although according to the law it is necessary to collect materials for transferring the case to the court,” says Bronnikov. - The colonies can be unprofitable to let a person go to freedom, because he is already trained, knows how to work and manage, when compared with the bulk of the convicts. Therefore, often a convicted person, having a positive track record, receives a negative characteristic from the administration with a strange formulation: "characterized contradictory." It seems to work well, has encouragements, but has completely failed. And the court refuses. "

Bronnikov says that 99% of the so -called economic convicts who received the deadlines for fraud and tax failure are exempted for bribes. “I had such a case,” he says. - People turned to me and asked me to contribute to the release of one businessman for 500 thousand rubles. I said that I could not help. And then I find out - this person was freed after 3 months, although he had several penalties. ”

Convicted IK-11 of the Kirov Region-winners of the World Games in weighty sports with coach Sergei Bronnikov (second on the left)

And such cases are darkness. Here is one example - the story of a former official (in a past life - the head of the Tula Office of the Federal Property Management Agency) and the former member of United Russia and the assistant’s assistant to the State Duma of Boris Gryzlov Maxim Dudarev yesterday.

Dudarev is serving a seven-year term in the IK-2 of the Tula region under the article "Fraud on an especially large scale"

* According to investigators, Dudarev in 2007 promised contracts for the reconstruction of the city building, for which he allegedly took rollbacks, but then he “threw” customers. . As he wrote in a letter addressed to the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Alexander Reimer, “on December 21, 2009, when I arrived at the colony, the chief Andrei Krivtsov, knowing my article, suggested“ agree ”on the care of Udo. I was invited to repair the dining room of the production area. For this, Krivtsov allocated a special contractor /... /, who carried out repairs. I paid him the amount of 600 thousand rubles in parts. ” According to Dudarev, as soon as he dragged on with payments a little, the head of the colony sent him to a schizo (penalty box), and how to claim parole with penalties?

In October 2010, Krivtsov was removed from his post. The next chief of the colony, on the contrary, showered Dudarev with incentives for good work, but informed him to secretly not to leave: the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the region Valery Usachev against - he didn’t like that Dudarev wrote complaints about Krivtsov. In 2011, IK-2 of the Tula region was headed by the third boss in two years-Vladimir Brovkin. As Dudarev writes, “Brovkin V.V. / .../ I told me directly that if I make repairs in the detachment, I would bring a new equipment (refrigerator, microwave, DVD ...), then the colony will help, however, when I turned to it, he only said that we, prisoners, should be employees. ” Not hoping for the result, the former assistant Gryzlov decided to stop "finance" the zone. Relations with the superiors of the colony were completely deteriorated. On November 8, the Tula court examined Dudarev’s petition for Udarev and refused: "The convict has not yet embarked on the path of correction."

"Economic" "milk" everywhere. In different regions, almost the same prices are called for parole for such as us - $ 10 thousand in 1 year. The cost of freedom “swims”: when the “resolves” determine the price, they are guided by the amount of damage indicated in the sentence, ”one former“ economic ”seal commented on the situation with Dudarev.

The convicted Marina Kolykova has no money to “buy” parole. As a drummer of sewing production, it earns a lot by prison standards, but gets only 4 thousand rubles in her hands - 25% of her earnings takes the colony. “I am putting off my daughter’s money on a laptop,” Marina The New Times admitted. “She is the only one in her class who has no computer.”

The prisoners and jailers live in different realities, although in the same areas. Some say that they are led only in the last six months or for money, others give quite prosperous statistics: for example, the head of the press bureau Federal Security Service of Russia Alexander Kromin told The New Times that in the first 6 months of 2011, 51,495 people were released conventionally. How much it remained to sit to these "lucky ones", what funds used to make freedom - the statistics are silent about.