2023年9月10日 · Russia has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, with over 600,000 people imprisoned as of 2022. Russian prisons have a notorious reputation for their harsh and brutal conditions. Reports of overcrowding, disease, abuse by guards, and minimal access to medical care have painted a bleak picture of the Russian penitentiary system.

2022年5月26日 · Though the veil of the iron curtain has lifted somewhat, there's still a shroud of darkness over the Russian prison system. Reports suggest the worst conditions imaginable — overcrowding,...

2023年6月3日 · In a 2021 report, the U.S. State Department said conditions in Russian prisons and detention centers “were often harsh and life threatening. Overcrowding, abuse by guards and inmates, limited access to health care, food shortages and inadequate sanitation were common in prisons, penal colonies, and other detention facilities.”

2024年2月29日 · After the still-unexplained death of Alexei Navalny at an Arctic penal colony earlier this month, human rights advocates have warned that political prisoners like Kara-Murza are facing increased risks inside Russia's prison system.

2019年7月9日 · There have been a number of news reports recently relating to Russian prisons – in particular about life on the inside of the pre-trial detention centres in Moscow. Once …

2024年3月3日 · People are interested in what life is like inside of the prisons because another critic of President Vladimir Putin’s government died at a prison in Russia’s far north, close to the Arctic...

2024年2月27日 · In modern Russia, former inmates, their relatives and human rights advocates paint a bleak picture of the prison system that is descended from the USSR’s gulag. For political prisoners, life inside is a grim reality of physical and psychological pressure. (AP …

2023年6月3日 · Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, has become Russia’s most famous political prisoner. He is serving a nine-year term due to end in 2030 on charges widely seen as trumped up, and is facing another trial on new charges that could keep him locked up for another two decades. (Moscow City Court via AP, File)

2024年2月20日 · Platon Lebedev, a Russian businessman with ties to exiled former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, served eight years at "Polar Wolf" for tax evasion, money laundering and fraud.

2023年6月3日 · Andrei Pivovarov, an opposition figure sentenced last year to four years in prison, has been in isolation at Penal Colony No. 7 in northern Russia’s Karelia region since January and is likely...