More than two million inhabitants of the United States are prisoners. This is almost 25 % of the total number of all prisoners of the planet. Of these, more than one hundred thousand Americans are contained in commercial prisons. Such penitentiary institutions are either entirely belonging to a private corporation or formally controlled by the state, but are at the disposal of a commercial structure.

Dmitry Mikhailover has already written for the "friend" - for example, this text is about the features of the Russian barbecue. Now, in response to a weekly newsletter, the chief editor of Samizdat Olga Beshley, who collects the stories of readers, he sent a story about his acquaintance with the Moscow artist Eliza (the name changed)-an eccentric, comical and still tragic character. Sergey Penkin and Alla Pugacheva are almost not present in the text, but the keyword is almost.

The federal system of execution of punishments is depressing statistics on relapses. For example, these data in their materials are given by the Perm Institute of the FSIN: “In 2010, out of 1,111,145 people who committed crimes, 397 403 persons (35.77 %) were previously convicted <...>. In 2015, 1,063,034 persons who committed crimes were identified, of which 552 582 persons (51.98 %) were convicted <...>.