Prison people. Betrayal

It is important about how convicts are loved and waited for them to be loved and waited

IK-7, which contains Mikhail Khodorkovsky. 2011

In the zone, as, however, on the other side of the “thorns”, reading the audience - usually older people. In the camp, youth prefers TV - musical clips.

Therefore, the very young guy, not parting with the book, involuntarily attracted attention to this, and his good -natured smile.

Otherwise, he usually looked. There are enough of them here - with a fairly lively look and a couple of tattoos - hello from a colony for minors; In the "adult" prisons, now "painting" is unpopular.

Once he came up to me, asked for a book. It turned out that Lesha (that was the name of the boy) loved fantasy, graduated from school, sitting according to the 158th article-theft. With friends, they climbed the empty summer cottages, got caught. Then - again. Colony for "youngsters". It turned 18 there. They brought here to "sit down". Two years already here. Appointment soon.

I once noticed that Lesha instead of familiar reading nervously wanders along the hut and at times did not wave his hand, as if he was leading a hopeless dialogue with someone.

He came up.

- What's happened?

- With the UDO of the problem.

- What other problems?

In the camps, there are usually two types of problems witho (if you forget about corruption, which is both a problem and a solution). Firstly, it is difficult to free up ahead of schedule to someone who quarrels with the administration. Secondly, “vocational school”, that is, such illegal practice, when the FSIN acts as a court, establishing additional restrictions on early release depending on the article of the Seidel.

But here is clearly not the case: both the article and the ordinary person.

- So what other problems? - I ask.

Here Lesha suddenly “breaks through”, he begins to tell.

Father drank. Recently died. Mother drank. Deprived of parental rights. He and two sisters were sent to a shelter. Then their mother did an oncological surgery. She quit drinking. She took the girls from the shelter, and he had to go to the orphanage. A scar all over the heart. From the orphanage - to the colony. The sisters have grown up, they are already 18. Mom is alive. Everything is fine. Six months ago they promised to come on a date. He ran around the colony for a week. By truth and by crook, he begged another person to give him a previously reserved date (in a colony with rooms it is not very simple). Waited. Waited. Here people on the day of the date in the morning are not their own. It is comparable only with the threshold of liberation. We did not come. On the phone in a week they said: they say, it did not work.

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And now - parole. To be released, in our bureaucratic police state, you, sitting in a colony, must get certificates that you have housing and work. He asked his mother and sisters. They said: there is no time

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Again a scar on the heart.

And now - parole. To be released, in our bureaucratic police state you, sitting in a colony, must get certificates (albeit the most fictitious) that you have housing and work.

He asked his mother and sisters. They said: there is no time.

“I have nowhere to go - and there is no need,” Lesha failed.

I understand that the business is not in the certificates. To blind them for long - former cellmates will help. The anchor is lost. Neither the girl, nor even the wife. When? Prison from 16 or 17 years old. He lost his father, but here it turns out - the mother and sisters refused.

There is nothing to say except the usual: "Hold on, guy."

And it’s a shame to admit, I felt the joy in my soul from the fact that I myself did not have to face such a betrayal. What is waiting and loves.

Think about how many such abandoned guys in Russian prisons! How many of them are there, due to a desperate attempt to regain attention, to feel their need in the world, where they were strangers to the closest.

He wandered another day. Then, in a trifle, he clung to another prisoner. For this, he worked out "additional labor service" for this. He pulled himself together and wrote a letter to his friends to send certificates.

Outwardly, everything returned to its rut.

Only Lesha almost does not smile anymore.

Photo: Vasily Popov