How women sit in Russian prisons. Women's penal colony (63 photos)

The life of women prisoners in Russian camps has always been very different from the laws of the existence of male prisoners. The biggest differences can be seen in terms of interpersonal communication. IN male zone"lowered", or passive homosexuals, become pariahs, which no one even dares to touch.

IN women's prisons"pickers", or lesbians, - common occurrence. Adherents of same-sex love are quite respected members of the prison community. Is on women's zone and their special expressions, which are not used in prisons where only men are kept.

"Parash". She's an "old lady"

A latrine in any prison is never called a "toilet". Even in pre-revolutionary Russia, prisoners of both sexes used slang expressions that replaced this concept. Even political prisoners - for the most part, highly educated ladies, and sometimes heirs of aristocratic families - used them. The tub for collecting sewage was called "latrine" or "old woman". These jargons are also in use in men's prisons.

"Ruble"

In the women's prison there is a category of prisoners who fall into sexual slavery to the guards and other representatives of the camp administration ("friends"). Zechki call them "ruble". This concept came from the Stalinist Gulag. For their services, sex slaves receive certain privileges: they may not perform general work, receive extra food etc.

Not all "rubles" are the same. In the 1920s and 1950s, there was a whole classification of privileged prisoners in Solovki: “half-ruble”, “15-kopeck” (or “five-altyn”) and actually “ruble”. Depending on the rank, the woman received various indulgences and "bonuses". If the prisoner refused to enter into sexual contact with the "godfather", she was doomed to constant cruel oppression.

"Moms"

"Nurses" in women's prisons were called women who either had already arrived pregnant from the outside, or conceived directly in custody. In the second case, the convicts got pregnant profitably: the conditions for keeping women "with a stomach" were much easier than for the rest of the mass of prisoners.

"Elder"

Any convict newly admitted to the zone first of all encounters the “elder”. This is the name of the main convict in the detachment (or cell), which is responsible for order. A lot depends on the elders. They can “snitch” the administration on unreliable or excessively conflicting friends, and sometimes restore order on their own. The prison authorities usually turn a blind eye to the arbitrariness of the “seniors”, because they help keep prisoners under a tight rein.

"Families"

In women's colonies, so-called "families" are very common. They are small groups of women who jointly run a simple household and provide each other with all kinds of support. A "family" can consist of two or more people. Moreover, between them there are not always sexual relations. The "family" is formed in order to facilitate the existence of its members. Life in prison is harsh, but it is much easier to survive together.

"Kobly" and "pickers"

In some cases, “families” are formed by lesbian couples: “cobles” (active) and “pickers” (passive lesbians). The latter are also called "hens". It is generally accepted that lesbian relationships are the norm in women's prisons. This is not entirely true. Most often, women get a partner, "winding" long term and who already had a lesbian experience prior to incarceration.

"Collective farmers" and "bull-suckers"

The lowest category of prisoners are “collective farmers” - downtrodden and stupid prisoners. This can also be attributed to the "bull sucker". This is the name given to weak-willed, dejected nurses who do not hesitate to pick up cigarette butts from others.

Despite all the coarseness of the vocabulary and the rigidity of the gradation of prisoners, life in women's colonies is simpler and more bearable than in men's colonies. Among women less aggression, violent conflicts with self-harm occur less often, and there is often even a ban on the use of prison “give a damn” in conversations. Compliance with this rule is supervised by the senior in the detachment.

Bullying and torture of a sexual nature in the prison department of the Russian Federation are systemic in nature. Women prisoners can be humiliated, beaten (and hit in the genitals), and subjected to sophisticated sexual acts.

Behind such people are usually employees or leaders of the colony. Sometimes torture is filmed on a phone and then sent to loved ones for the purpose of obtaining a bribe. Today, the number of rapes has decreased, indicating an overhaul of the system.

The topic of sexual abuse in women's colonies is taboo in the media. Human rights activists are reluctant to share facts, and the Internet contains only a small percentage of detailed information.

How do they live in places of detention?

Women prisoners have no shame in complaining and writing denunciations against their fellow inmates if they are being bullied (on days when operatives are received by the colony staff, queues form). The rules and regulations of residence are established by the administration of the institution; jailers also independently appoint elders.

There is no common cash desk (common fund) in women's cells. Psychological features feminine character They are distinguished by a more vivid manifestation of feelings - conflicts between them are always deeper and longer, and during a fight, nails and teeth are used.

The status in the camera is determined based on past life . If a woman has practiced anal sex, she automatically falls into the “lowered” caste (you can read about the “lowered” caste in the men’s area). Due to a long absence of contact with men, prisoners begin to look for a surrogate - to practice lesbian love.

Types of violence and torture

On the list of possible physical violence - beating with rubber truncheons on the heels (so that no traces are left). The systemic punishment for misconduct is a punishment cell with a cold floor and no mattresses.

Sexual abuse was welcomed by guards or prison administration employees. The fact of rape in a women's colony can rarely be proven, and even more rarely can it be taken outside the zone. Such humiliations are aimed at destroying the individual and causing psychological trauma.

Frequent sexual torture includes:

1. "flight of the swallow" - hands and feet were handcuffed to the bed;
2. hanging and tying hands behind the back (anal contact);
3. intentional strangulation (BDSM element).

Previously, prisoners were raped in punishment cells, and in case of pregnancy, they had an abortion on their own. Group orgies were also common; today the arbitrariness of the guards is gradually ending.

Orders in the colonies

Among female prisoners, almost there is no category that will be purposefully ridiculed and pressed. The ratio depends on personal qualities and strength of character. Outcasts in the women's zone are simply shunned. Most often, heroin addicts are despised - long-term drug addicts. Child killers also pay for their crimes - they are initially outcasts who are subjected to regular beatings.

The list of despised also:

1. convicts diagnosed with HIV;
2. women with venereal or oncological pathologies.

In the cells of the settlement, women try to live in “families” - make friends in misfortune and form their own group. This is not a prerequisite for lesbianism - it is easier for a “family” to survive in the conditions of the zone.

If a woman does not fulfill the production plan (she does not know how to sew, does not have time to fulfill the quota), at the end of the working day she will be beaten by her cellmates and the convoy.

The administration of the colonies does not interfere in the affairs of prisoners and does not take any measures to prevent fights between prisoners. And women who have committed economic crimes often try to cheat the employees themselves out of money.

How to behave for the first time?

The basic rule of behavior is behave naturally, “don’t be bullish” and don’t run into trouble. In the women's colony, fortitude, perseverance, and the ability to communicate and build relationships are especially valued.

If you don’t know where to sit, be sure to ask. Moving or touching other people's things is strictly prohibited. You shouldn’t withdraw into yourself and isolate yourself from the team – this can lead to fights.

You can’t open your soul and share your problems with everyone. Golden Rule zones - talk less, listen more. It is better not to touch on sexual topics ( oral sex may become a reason for expulsion from the team). It is important not to forget about hygiene: soap in a women’s prison is valued more than tea and cigarettes in a men’s prison (a newcomer was told about the peculiarities of survival in a men’s prison).

How is the inspection going?

An inspection (or search) involves the identification by jailers of prohibited items and their further confiscation. In women's colonies, this procedure occurs with a significant degree of humiliation: the prisoner may be forced to strip naked and search her mouth and hair. Each shock of clothing is felt by the slicker. The inspection is divided into:

• easy(passing through the frame, checking pockets);
• deep(complete undressing);
• planned(2-3 times a month);
• unscheduled(any time).

Most often, an inspection is arranged upon arrival from a walk (or from a shift), before a meeting with an investigator or a lawyer.

Conditions in the chambers

Prisoners live in permanent cells - this is a kind of "house" for the entire period of serving the term. How it looks inside depends on the management and its intention to create minimum comfort conditions. The following camera is suitable and meets the standards:

1. sleeping places for each living prisoner;
2. separate place for eating;
3. working bathroom (toilet, washing area).

The number of people living in 1 cell varies from 10 to 40 people (4 sq.m. per person). Women's cells for 40 or more prisoners have a separate shower and kitchen. Duty and cleaning is carried out 2 times a day (those who have been sitting for more than a year do not take part).

The women's prison is a special place where the laws and rules of a free life lose their meaning and appear in a different context. Beatings and sexual abuse - girls are more likely to be tortured by camp staff in prison life in Russia. Most often, sexual sophistication goes unpunished.

Every year in our country the number of crimes committed by women is growing. At the same time, the number is growing. Next, we offer a look at how the life of prisoners in women’s prisons works.

The daily routine is main document in all correctional institutions
Here is a standard day for prisoners using the example of the Mozhaisk women's colony (IK-5 - Moscow region).

Women's colonies are not divided by type of regime into general, "strict" or special. Everyone sits here together - murderers and petty thieves, drug addicts and major dealers, former law enforcement officers and women who have been hiding from justice for decades.

Most of the convicts work in the clothing industry. They sew into uniforms for the Federal Penitentiary Service and the police. Sometimes, trying to get away from the everyday routine, they sew women's dresses

These women will definitely not disappear in the wild!

And this is footage from a women’s colony in Atyrau (Kazakhstan)

Prisoners are participating in the 28 Loops project, in which they knit clothes for premature babies from perinatal centers. Women know that something knitted with their hands can save a life small child. Many prisoners say they see it as atonement for past sins.

As for leisure, in women's colonies they arrange sporting events, and concerts with disctheques

The heads of the colonies believe that women should remain women in the zone. Then they go out into the world, and the task of the correctional institution is to teach them to be full members of society. Therefore, all appropriate conditions are created for them, and women are punished for sloppiness.

There are even beauty contests held in women's colonies.

Another feature women's colonies- this is the fact that in some there live children born in captivity.

For prisoners with children they create special conditions, and also go to ease the regime. At the age of three, children are handed over either to relatives or to Orphanage.

Prison is a scary place. Just look how much suffering in those eyes...
Ekaterina, 28 years old. Crime related to drug trafficking, sentence 4 years 6 months, served 4 years.

Tatyana, 54 years old, was convicted of a crime related to drug trafficking. From general term sentence 4 years and 3 months served 2 years, is in rehabilitation center colonies.

Yana, 28 years old. Convicted of a crime related to drug trafficking, sentence of 5 years 6 months, served 2 years.

Anna, 25 years old. Crime related to drug trafficking, sentence 8 years 1 month, served 4 months.

Anastasia, 26 years old. Sentenced for murder to 6 years in prison, served 3 years.

In the criminal universe there is a special galaxy - women's prisons. The "concepts" by which the world of criminals lives are absent in the women's colonies.

There are unspoken rules that everyone must follow. For example, in each cell there should be a “senior” who keeps order, so that there are no prohibited items and that the inmates maintain order.

Hierarchy in the chamber

Women's crimes are different from men's. Women are less likely to commit acquisitive crimes, robberies, and robberies. They are more likely to commit murders, and cause serious harm to the health of a domestic nature. This is due to the fact that women are more emotional, and the mind does not always guide the behavior of a woman, especially in moments of rage.

Husbands, lovers, husband's mistresses become victims of female violence. When arrested, women do not resist and do not run away.

Mutual relations of convicts, as a rule, are neutral. This is not a male cell where there is a struggle for leadership. The hierarchy in the cell is like a beehive - there is a uterus - the "eldest", assistants to whom the eldest delegates her unspoken duties and the rest of the girls.

Most of the cells are designed for 40-60 people, in which there are beds in two rows, which are called "bunks". There is a bed that is at the end of the chamber, without a second shelf. It is called "glade" - the "older" sleeps on it. The cell also has a kitchen and a toilet with a shower. The kitchen, toilet can be used for an unlimited time, and clothes can be washed only in certain days. The chamber is cleaned daily, three times a day.

The cleaning schedule is drawn up in advance, and it is impossible to refuse duty - the only exception is those who “sit” for a long time. Bad vigilance is punished additional days cleaning The duty can be "sold" for two packs of cigarettes or for groceries. Girls are not allowed to enter the kitchen if there is a “senior” and her assistants. To support the camera calm atmosphere, girls are forbidden to swear and use derivative words, so there is often absolute silence in the cell.

The eldest is responsible for “training” the new ones. The process of getting used to the new life takes a week or two. The eldest in the cell allocates places, and the newcomers get places near the entrance, the so-called "brakes".

Hierarchy on the zone

After the verdict is passed, the woman is transferred to a pre-trial detention center. For the female psyche, this is a huge stress, because it is impossible to prepare for the prison environment. “Having arrived at prison,” women lose their sense of reality.

An operational worker is responsible for the distribution to cells. Usually they try to “pick up” a camera for a newcomer, but this is done not for the sake of a woman, but for the sake of the employees’ peace of mind - there are fewer conflicts, which means that it is easier for the administration to work. Therefore, accountants and officials are in one cell, “collective farmers” are in another. This principle is violated only if accomplices are put in prison - always in different cells.

In the zone great importance has "who you are", your position in society before prison. For example, whether you are a Muscovite or not, how often you receive broadcasts, how many letters they write to you, what you wear and what you eat - your own food or prison food. Thus, the attitude of the prison society is formed. Although the status is formed not only with the help of the “pre-prison” situation, it also depends on the individual.

Conflicts end in a raised voice, but there are practically no fights, and if they happen, it is without serious damage. Murders are generally a rare occurrence in a women’s cell. If the prison administration finds out about the conflict, the culprit will be punished, and it is easy to find the instigator. Therefore, they try not to conflict without a good reason.

HOW DO WOMEN LIVE IN PRISON? DETAILS OF A COMPLEX LIFE
How do women live in prison? Details of a difficult life

What is a women's prison and who are the women in prison, what do they do, and how do they live with it. We will talk about this and much more in this article.
WOMAN IN PRISON - WHO IS SHE?
It's hard to imagine a woman in prison. At first glance, these two words are incompatible. Society is more accustomed to the fact that prison is intended for male prisoners.
Women's crimes differ from men's, due to the fact that women are much more emotional, so most often the victims of their violence are their husbands' mistresses or even the husbands themselves.
Women during arrest During arrest, women usually do not resist. They behave calmly while they are led to the place of proceedings. But despite this, the police treat them cynically and rudely.
Women are humiliated, insulted, and sometimes even pulled by their hair. Compared to men, women are not tortured.
If law enforcement officers use physical punishment, they are only trying to evoke emotions that make it impossible to lie.
In the temporary detention facility, women and men are placed separately. After the verdict, when a woman ends up in a pre-trial detention center, it turns out that she is not at all ready for prison conditions, even though there are now enough films written and shown about women’s prisons.
Naturally, when a person goes to prison for the first time, he experiences great stress. Return to normal condition, surprisingly, her cellmates help the woman, because communication and stories about her fate and troubles calm her down.
Relationships between cellmates develop differently, but mostly without conflict. After some time, women form groups in the form of families, within which they communicate or discuss some problems.
PRISON - FEMININE
Women in prisons remain women. The women's prison is like a boutique, because of the natural passion for shopping for clothes. It sounds a little strange, because in prisons there is neither money nor goods.
But women constantly change their things for someone else's, thus imitating the acquisition of something new. Sometimes there are cases of exchanging a new thing for an old one, the goal is still the same - updating the wardrobe.
Foreign cosmetics, if transferred by relatives, are exchanged for domestic ones. Police officers are not against such barter relations, they themselves help to transfer things from one cell to another.
Women's prisons are not equipped with conditions psychological help and are notorious for their lack of sanitation. Sometimes there are not enough personal hygiene products, clothing. There is no designated area for washing in the cells.
Unsanitary

It is terrible to imagine the conditions in which women live in prisons. If a woman has a child over four years old, then he lives with relatives or in an orphanage.
Even if the child is less than three years old, the mother must live in isolation, and spend only a couple of hours a day walking with the baby.
As a rule, women who are in prison for more than 3-4 years have a disturbed social perception, a change in psychology, all this is negatively reflected on later life, which may soon return the woman back to the prison cell.
But this does not mean that all women who have served time are spoiled and do not have any good future life. Among the prisoners there are also talented individuals who dance, sing, write poetry, draw, and so on.
During their sentence, they usually continue to do what they love, developing skills, so they leave prison with great potential behind them.
General population cells All people dream of privacy, unfortunately, in women's prisons this can be forgotten. Women cannot be alone if they are serving time in a cell with 40-60 people in it.
For this reason, an irritated feeling often arises, which often leads to conflicts of a domestic nature.
All conflicts end peacefully, mostly without going further than raising your voice. Fighting in women's prisons is almost non-existent.
If one of the inmates needs to report to the court case, then the chamber reigns festive mood. They try to dress a woman in the most best clothes, which is in the chamber, do beautiful hairstyle and makeup.
Even in prison, they do not lose their sense of self-worth: “How can you go out into public without putting yourself in order?” Special treatment manifests itself to a prisoner who killed her child.
Basically, such women are ignored and considered plebeians, since the task of every woman on earth is to give birth to a child, and not to kill him.
Sometimes there is a tradition when a woman who kills children is cut bald with a regular haircut. razor, while leaving cuts and scars on the head.
Basically, police officers punish participants in violence, although they perfectly understand the reason for such behavior. Concerning living conditions, then there is no women’s prison, and there cannot be warm water.
Heat water using boilers. Showers happen once a week, or even once every ten days. The administration takes care of comfortable conditions prisoners. Now every woman has her own bed.
The cells have been redecorated, and it’s not uncommon to see wallpaper there bright colors. Even if a pregnant woman goes to prison, she remains in a common cell and eats food like everyone else.
BIRTH IN PRISON
Childbirth in prison If a pregnant woman experiences her first contractions, she is immediately taken to the hospital under guard, and sometimes even in handcuffs.
She returns to work in the colony immediately after giving birth, and the child is returned to the mother after 5-6 days.
Already with the child, the woman is transferred to a separate specially designed cell.
It houses only nursing mothers or pregnant women, due to the law on detention.
The administration takes care of mothers who cannot feed their children and provides artificial nutrition for their babies.
In prisons female mother he is separated from his baby only when he is taken to the hospital for examination; in other cases, he is constantly with his mother, so sometimes she even gets tired.
Only after the child turns three years old is he separated from his mother. That is, in general, we can say that the conditions for children in places of detention are terrible.
For some reason, the state defense has a contemptuous attitude towards imprisoned mothers; they often claim that women give birth to make life easier for themselves in prison, and in fact they do not need children.
MOTHERHOOD IN PRISON
Motherhood in prisonAnd yet for such women there is certain conditions to raise a baby: walk twice a day, cook food right in the cell, get extra baby food and sometimes diapers.
When a mother and baby stay in a colony, a method of adaptation of the child is observed.
He is taken away, allegedly because of the quarantine, but in fact, in this way, the child is weaned from the mother.
Today in Russia there are approximately 700 mothers in women's prisons with their children younger than three years and pregnant women.
Of course, even with all the amenities provided, not a single mother feels comfortable, but all for the same reason - lack of will.
Motherhood in a Women's Prison Instead of being outside for a long time with a child, they sit in cells deprived of any light except daylight, although this is prohibited by law.
Therefore, one should not think that it is much easier for mothers in prisons to live than ordinary prisoners. Living conditions for women with children are not much different.
Now imagine that almost all women are in the same conditions, regardless of whether they have a child or not. Will it be easy for the mother for the first three years until the child is taken away?
We invite you to watch a film about a women's prison, about how, sometimes stupidly smart and beautiful girls and women end up in prison.