Let's imagine a prisoner who, having served part of his sentence, receives limited freedom for exemplary behavior. Every morning he leaves prison and goes to work, and in the evening at a certain time he returns to his cell. His day is clearly scheduled, and the forces of order can check where he is at any time. and what their ward does.

Print Thomas Mathiesen Abstract* Thomas Mathiesen is professor of sociology and law at the University of Oslo. His work was published in Norway in 1987. Mathiesen's thorough study, presenting the prison system in its various aspects, is recognized as a classic. Very quickly translations were made into many European languages ​​- Danish, Swedish, German, Italian. The book first appeared in English in 1990 and has already gone through two reprints.

Print Mikhail Rezin Experience of church guardianship of juvenile prisoners in Ardatov Next to our temple, just five hundred meters away, there is an educational colony for teenagers. There are 250 boys sitting in it who wanted to take something that does not belong to them, but which is advertised everywhere, which is presented as an example of real life: beautiful cars, houses, clothes, jewelry, food and drinks.

Print Sergey Pashin You, Messrs. Crown judges, a lot of experience - my word is not for you: we should not remind you, but learn from you... F. N. Plevako, from a speech in defense of Konshin workers on December 12, 1897 Fluctuations in the prison population in Russia bring to mind the school problem about a swimming pool and two pipes: a stream flows into one, a stream flows out of the other.

Print Mikhail Ryklin On the last page of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s epic “The Gulag Archipelago” we read: “And to whom I offered to take individual chapters, they did not take them, but replaced them with a story, oral or written, at my disposal. I suggested to Varlam Shalamov that we write the entire book together, but he also rejected it” [1] . It was no coincidence that Shalamov rejected this proposal - both writers understood the prisoner’s experience too differently.

Print Piacentini Laura I'm a Scottish prison sociologist. I spent 13 years studying the Russian prison system, first setting foot inside a Russian correctional facility in 1998. Since then, I have been able to collect data on 18 prisons in different parts of Russia. In this article I tried to summarize the main results of my work studying the labor of Russian prisoners. The conclusions I came to in no way characterize the entire correctional system as a whole.

Print Valery Abramkin I. Preface The indicators by which criminologists usually judge the degree of inhumanity of the criminal justice system and the criminal policies of states is the relative number (per 100 thousand population) of executions and prisoners: after deprivation of life, imprisonment is the cruelest form of punishment. As can be seen from Fig. I (see p. 116), Russia and the USA are world leaders in terms of the latest indicator.

Print Igor Svinarenko Recently I was lying in a very, very good Moscow hospital and there, out of boredom, I was thinking about different things. And, looking around, I suddenly noticed that this hospital, or rather this ward, reminded me of something. What? You will laugh - a cell in the Champ-Dollon prison, near Geneva! Yes, yes, our elite hospital is their ordinary prison.

Reference Type In the United States, the federal Department of Justice and state departments of corrections1 operate prisons ( states and federal prisons, reformatories ), correctional labor institutions - prison farms and workshops ( prison farms ), centers for reception, diagnosis and classification of prisoners ( reception, diagnosis, and classification centers, correction centers ), as well as special medical institutions: prison hospitals and centers for the treatment of alcohol and drug

This issue of the journal Otechestvennye Zapiski is entirely devoted to prison, which frees me from explaining why people end up in prison. However, we will begin this article precisely from the moment when a person crossed the threshold of a correctional institution and found himself behind barbed wire. In the reader’s mind, of course, there are harsh conditions for keeping convicts in places of deprivation of liberty, cells, bars, handcuffs, rubber batons, armed guards, etc.

Print Yakov Gilinsky Any punishment is criminal. JI. Tolstoy Punishing the guilty is evil . F. Dzerzhinsky We must get rid of the illusion that the criminal legal system is mainly a means of combating crime. M. Foucault The “punishment crisis” and its consequences Punishment, along with prevention, is one of the elements of social control over crime. Criminal legal and criminological problems of punishment were actively discussed during the years of Soviet power [1] .

Print Galina Shebaldina In the collection of the Ambassadorial Order “Russia's Relations with Sweden” for 1710 [1], two letters were discovered that were in one envelope, inscribed in Latin letters “Robert Karlovich Areskin”. The content of these letters seemed extremely interesting to us, since it is connected with an unknown episode in the diplomatic history of the Northern War of 1700-1721.

Print Marietta Chudakova Today, the overwhelming majority of our citizens (citizens only in the sense that they have Russian citizenship) would not be able to answer the question - is there now a Presidential Pardon Commission in Russia? The most important institution was destroyed seven years ago - but Russian society did not notice this. How many people over the years have asked me: “Are you still working in this ... Pardon Commission?

Print Vera Milchina Vernet O. At the court of Nicholas I: Letters from St. Petersburg 1842-1843 / Trans., intro. article and comments by D. Solovyov. M.: ROSS PEN, 2008. 174 p. Before us is a mystery book. There are many wonders scattered across 170 pages. Take, for example, the name of the translator and the author of the afterword. In the bibliographic description and in the copyright designation, D. Vasiliev is named as such, on the title page and in the signature under the article - D.

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