“Room five by five meters”: a story from a Moscow resident about the conditions of detention in a temporary detention facility
The management of the Federal Penitentiary Service dismissed the deputy head of “Matrosskaya Tishina”: the day before, the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission spoke about VIP cells in the pre-trial detention center. For hundreds of thousands of rubles, prisoners could live in a spacious room with a modern renovation, a combined bathroom, an LCD TV, a refrigerator and a minibar. Meanwhile, other prisoners were kept in dirty, overcrowded cells.