What are the rules in women's prisons? Broadcast of the official blog of Maria Arbatova in Hydepark

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 (struck on the genitals as well), engage in sophisticated sexual acts with them.

Behind such people are usually employees or leaders of the colony. Sometimes torture is filmed on the phone, and then sent to relatives in order to receive a bribe. Today, the number of rapes has decreased, indicating a revision 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?

It is not shameful for women prisoners to complain and write denunciations about their cellmates if they are being bullied (on the days when operatives are received, queues line up for employees of the colony). The administration of the institution establishes the rules and regulations of residence, the jailers also independently appoint elders.

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

Status in the chamber 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 male zone). Due to the long absence of contact with men, the 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). A systemic measure for wrongdoing is a punishment cell with a cold floor and no mattresses.

Sexual bullying was welcomed by guards or employees of the colony administration. The fact of rape in a women's colony can rarely be proved, and even more rarely can be taken out of 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 widespread, 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. Attitude depends only 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. The child killers are also paying for the committed misconduct - 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" - to make friends in misfortune and form their own group. This is not a prerequisite for lesbianism - it is easier to survive in a "family" 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 norm), at the end of the working day she will be beaten by her cellmates and the escort.

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 "swindle" the employees themselves.

How to behave for the first time?

The basic rule of conduct is behave naturally, “not bully” and not run into trouble. In the women's colony, strength of mind, resilience, 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 should not lock yourself in and fence yourself off from the team - this threatens to fight.

You can’t open your soul and share with all the problems. The golden rule of the zone is to talk less, listen more. It is better not to touch on sexual topics (oral sex can be a reason for expulsion from the team). It is important not to forget about hygiene: soap in a women's colony is valued more than tea and cigarettes in men's (the newcomer was told about the features of survival in a men's prison).

How is the inspection going?

Examination (or shmon) involves the identification of prohibited things by the jailers and their further seizure. In women's colonies, this procedure takes place with a significant degree of humiliation: a prisoner can be forced to strip naked, search her mouth and hair. Each shock of clothes is probed by a scrambler. The screening 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. Suitable and meeting the standards can be called the following camera:

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

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 room 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.

The media has recently paid a lot of attention to the problem of women in prison. Television and newspaper reports, analytical articles, interviews with officials of the penitentiary service are devoted to this topic ...

However, journalistic research suffers from an obvious one-sidedness, they show only the "facade" side of the problem. It would be naive to think that a prisoner, to whom a journalist holds out a microphone in the presence of citizens of the chiefs, will be sincere and direct in her assessments of prison reality. One can hardly count on the frankness of an employee of the pre-trial detention center, who still has to serve and serve ... In this sense, the information received from professionals who have recently parted with the prison system, are well versed in its complex organization and at the same time are able to think freely and speak is valuable. without regard to the authorities. As the famous character of the film “The meeting place cannot be changed” said: “You, boss, ... write books.”

Childbirth in prison

If you happened to give birth in prison, then you got an exceptional opportunity to find out a lot of such details that other women did not even dream of: is it possible to give birth in handcuffs and is there security during childbirth; how long a woman in labor stays in the maternity hospital and how she is taken back to the isolation ward; whether a baby is searched when he goes to court with his mother; whether a pregnant woman is persuaded to have an abortion; whether a mother can raise her child if she was allowed to take him to a colony, and much, much more.

Pregnant women are kept in common cells - stuffy, smoky - they are fed the same food. A woman in labor is usually taken to the hospital at the first contractions, if the prisoners have time to inform the administration about this. They are transported in a paddy wagon or ambulance, but always under escort. In some cases, a woman giving birth can be delivered in handcuffs. After giving birth, a woman held in a labor colony must start work in two months. The child stays in the hospital for the prescribed time - 5-6 days, and then, if he is healthy, he is returned to his mother. From this moment, or a little earlier, the mother begins to live in a separate cell adapted for such cases, in which only pregnant or lactating women can stay. So it is written in the “Detention Act”. But, like many other things provided for by this act, most often it remains a simple declaration, a good intention, one of those with which the road ... to hell is paved.

motherhood in prison

“Mommies” or “mothers” are the most odious part of the female prison population. They are spoken about with slight irony, or even completely disapprovingly. They are considered a heavy burden of the penitentiary system - after all, according to the law, they are not required to work in order to feed themselves; they cannot be placed in a punishment cell or punishment cell, even for serious offenses; they cannot be handcuffed when; they need special cells and special conditions.

Woman in prison - who is she?

Women's crime in nature is markedly different from men's. Women are much less likely to commit crimes for profit. Robberies, robberies, murders with the aim of taking possession of other people's property are not women's crimes. But grossly violent acts of a domestic nature: murders motivated by jealousy, revenge, grievous bodily harm - typically "women's share" in criminal statistics.

A woman in prison: prison dates, prison sex, children born behind bars...

To the colony to meet his wife

Sergei is preparing to meet his wife Galina in the colony. He has already purchased everything needed for the 30-kilogram transmission. It remains to buy some sweets for the three-day date - berries, fruits, ice cream.

Sergey has been going to meetings in the colony for the third year already. Three years later, the term of punishment will also end. The sentence that Galina received is nine years in prison. The same amount was received by her first husband, with whom they went through the same case. To date, Galina has served six years. Her first marriage cracked even before her arrest. A couple of years later, when the spouses were already divided into different zones, it became clear that they even had nothing to write to each other about.

Sergei is Galinin's second husband. Managed to somehow get to know each other at the stage. The young man then received two years in prison. We started to correspond. If letters go from zone to zone, this is always problematic. But they established a connection through the will. After his release, Sergei came to Galina for a short date. Soon signed. The husband tries his best to support his wife, both morally and financially. “When our loved ones behind bars feel that they are needed in freedom, then time in captivity flies much faster,” he says. In turn, Galina writes in almost every letter to her husband how happy she is, because, at last, she understood what it means to live.

For those who are far from prison realities, this short story is supposedly from the Santa Barbara series. However, everyone who has been in prison will tell you that not so happens in prisons. Although rarely.

As a rule, their mothers come to visit convicted women, less often their fathers. More rarely - spouses, especially with children.

“Why do they need dates, why?” “If spouses are most often waiting for their husbands, then men are much less patient,” Sergey says sincerely. they can’t have sex, and therefore, when a wife is behind bars, most often they get themselves new life partners.

Sergei is convinced that lengthy prison visits should still be much more frequent than once every six months. He also believes that the so-called bachelors should also have the right to a long meeting with loved ones.

Human rights activists refer to the experience of the Swedish penitentiary system, where prisoners, regardless of whether they are married or not, can meet with their loved ones every week in prison. ) is absolutely insufficient. There is also the opportunity to meet with their families weekly. To put it bluntly, there is the possibility of some kind of physiological discharge, which is also important. Thus, a person constantly feels a connection with his relatives. In addition, relatives should not think about how and for what to collect another parcel for the inmate. Here in Sweden, where the prisoners are provided with literally everything, there is simply no such problem.”

Such a restriction on dating, as well as a forced refusal to have sex at a fertile age, leads to disruption of the hormonal cycle, affects the mental state, and creates an atmosphere of significant sexual tension in prisons.

More than half of the seated women are covered by lesbian love

According to research by psychologists of the Moscow Research Center for Mental Health, conducted in the institutions of the Russian prison system, a woman in prison, due to the lack of necessary tactile contacts with loved ones and emotional ties, “breaks down” much faster than a man. The psyche of women does not withstand after 2 years of forced separation from home, relatives, family, while for a man this happens after 3-5 years. Often in such conditions, instead of a real feeling, a woman who needs it begins to look for some kind of surrogate for feelings.

According to researchers, forced lesbian love in Russia covers more than half of the women in prison. A similar picture is typical for most women's correctional institutions, explains former convict Maria, who spent two years in a colony.

Maria: “Many people have this kind of connections. Especially among those who repeatedly sit for a long time. Those who have short terms can only taste this kind of love a little. Some do without sex at all. However, among those who sit for long periods, more than half have such connections. All such relationships arise absolutely voluntarily. Nobody is raping anyone."

According to Maria, 2 types of such partnerships are common in women's prisons.

Maria: “1 are the so-called “halves”, they identify themselves as women and look accordingly feminine. The 2nd type of connection is when women already fulfill the male and female roles. The first of them are very similar to men. When I first saw such a woman in a pre-trial detention center, I thought that some guy was put in a cell by mistake.

Such women are called "kobles" or "pickers". Their faces are scarred, their hair is short, their voice is rough. I don't know how it turns out that a woman changes completely. "Kobly" show signs of attention to a certain girl. They are like a real married couple. The so-called man will protect his mistress, be jealous of her. Moreover, there are concrete scenes of jealousy, fights and disputes are not uncommon. After being released from prison, the "kobls" sometimes did everything to return back. After all, the so-called wife remained there. It was such a strong love. If both women are free, then very often they continue to live together in the wild. Sometimes a couple brings up the child of one of them together. It happens that even born in prison.

"Where the babies come from?"

According to Maria, the demographic problems characteristic of society have not touched women's zones at all. Zechki give birth quite often.

But where do children come from in the colony, from whom? As Maria says, women get pregnant while still free, just before the pre-trial detention center. Some become pregnant while still in the colony after long visits with their spouses. There are other options.

Maria: “Sexual relationships with men also happened in our zone. For example, with civilian workers. When there was construction going on. But, the truth is, such cases were more often suppressed. As a result, those workers were fired, women received various penalties. The very last moment: when a polyclinic was being built under my supervision, the girls were forbidden to even come close to those workers, put on short skirts and thus provoke men. As far as I know from the girls themselves, they are trying to make contact at the factory with the so-called "chemists". Trying to arrange a call to meet in some back rooms. But recently, very young and frightened people have been recruited to the factory, who literally run away from these girls. Previously, as veteran convicts told me, in a separate cell you could meet a male prisoner of $50. Now it is almost impossible - everything is under video surveillance.

Remembering breastfeeding women in prison, Maria says that not all of them are familiar with maternal feelings. The girl believes that most of these convicts give birth to a child for opportunistic reasons, for the sake of various privileges. These are walks without restrictions in the fresh air, improved nutrition - dairy products, more fresh fruits and vegetables. Plus regular health care. This, however, can be said about the zone. It is much more difficult for pregnant women in a pre-trial detention center - they live like everyone else.

Maria: “Besides, some women, like mothers of babies, may even expect to get parole. They receive certain material assistance upon release - money, toys, things. Themselves, when they get out of prison, they often just take and leave their children ... More often at railway stations. This happens in the first hours after liberation.”

As Russian psychologists note in their research, very rare stories of prison motherhood have happy endings. The system itself in the former Soviet republics is built in such a way that there are no conditions for a person who has been released from prison to find at least some place in life. Therefore, usually former convicts, who have developed maternal feelings and who are not going to give their child born in prison to anyone, recall with nostalgia the time they spent with the baby in the colony. Even though it was lack of freedom, their small family had everything necessary for existence. In the conditions of the Russian penitentiary system, there are also houses for the children of convicted mothers. They are designed for kids from zero to three years. How expedient is it to keep children from their very birth in a prison "baby house", isn't it better to do it in the same institution at large until the mother comes out of prison?

A familiar journalist who visited the women's colony a few years ago at the Open Day, noted that the prison house resembles a private kindergarten. The walls of the rooms are painted with fairy-tale characters, in the rooms there are wooden cribs. There is a music hall and rooms for games, a children's patio with gazebos, flower beds, a playground with a swing. All problem children who have inherited certain diseases from their mothers, and most of them, are under the close attention of a neurologist, pediatrician, nurse, and educators. Their state of health is slowly recovering. Then the journalist managed to talk with some mothers. One of them, convicted Alla, in a conversation with a colleague, was very worried about how painful it was for her to see her child behind the “thorn”. Alla became pregnant in the colony during a meeting with her husband. At first, he encouraged her very much, wrote, came. And then he disappeared. They say he has a new passion. Not a day, Alla said, she did not leave the thought that her daughter's life begins with the zone.

The woman, however, was sure that she would still put her daughter on her feet, give her both upbringing and education. She hoped that she would never have such an experience again in her life. However, she would not hide it from her daughter, she said.

I wonder how the fate of this mother and her daughter? And are they together now?

Maria: “Of course, it happens in different ways. There are cases when women in the colony tremble over their children, and then go out and drink all the children's things. After all, if a mother with a child is released from a colony, then they provide the child with a stroller, clothes, and food for the first weeks. There are mothers who drink it right away. However, in general, I emphasize this word, mothers love their children very much. The child is very stimulating to become responsible for his fate, because they don’t have another good one like this baby.”

However, let us return to the research of psychologists at the Center for Mental Health. According to their conclusions, after two or three years of imprisonment, many women, including mothers, undergo certain metamorphoses in their consciousness. Contrary to common sense and an innate thirst for freedom, the feeling of punishment disappears, fades - and the prison already seems to them the only acceptable home for their existence, from which they are afraid and there is no need to go out into this world where no one is waiting for you. Someone, realizing this, reconciles and begins to take root in this habitual ugly environment, adapts, dissembles, and someone falls into indifference, despair, longing, anger at everything and everyone ...

About it. In the women's prison. ​

2 December 2016

Love in prison. The secret of the old convict

... But now he had a goal - Sanya fell in love. ​

There are six women's colonies in Kazakhstan, the total number of women and girls serving sentences as of August 1 this year is 2901. Women's correctional colony UG-157/11 of Atyrau opened three years ago, with a total of 234 prisoners from four regions. Correspondents of Vox Populi visited the women's colony to tell and show readers how they live in a penal colony and who they are - the women whom the court deprived of their liberty.

1. All women's colonies in the country are of general regime, except for the colony in Karaganda, where “walkers” (prison jargon) are kept - repeatedly convicted women

2. Twice a day, convicts gather on the parade ground for inspection. Absence is considered a gross violation, for which they can be put in a punishment cell. Such a mark in the personal file is undesirable, as it affects parole (parole) and transfer to a colony-settlement

3. After checking, all women disperse to their jobs or squads. White scarves are a mandatory part of the uniform

4. The conditions of stay in UG-157/11 are as close as possible to a standard women's hostel. Five squads, in which approximately 50 women each, are placed in their own blocks. In each block, except for the bedrooms, there is a common teahouse, a storeroom, a guest room. There is a shared bath, laundry and ironing

5. Four women live in each room. According to the charter, they do not have the right to sit or lie down on the bed from nine in the morning until seven in the evening. It is austere and smells of bleach here.

6. Each detachment has its own foreman, an authoritative person who knows how to eliminate internal conflict situations and maintain peaceful coexistence among several dozen women with a difficult fate and character. Brigadiers of detachments or, more simply, "bumps" are people with untouchable authority. The brigadier has a deputy, a santroika (sanitary troika), a foreman-orderly, assistants responsible for the supply room, for the kitchen, for the tea house and for the leisure and sports section (SDS)

7. In the relaxation room, convicts can be alone with themselves. Three psychologists constantly monitor the well-being of prisoners. Each convict has an individual approach. In the zone, the emotional state of women is extremely unstable

8. In the evenings, women gather in front of the TV. They watch news and TV shows, the most popular are Turkish. It should be noted that the well-established life of the colony largely depends on the attitude of the convicted women themselves. The paintings on the walls were made by the prisoners themselves.

9. Kapterka. One convict was released today. Employees escorted her to the station. The head of the zone contacted the Aktobe Center for Adaptation and Rehabilitation of Convicts and asked for help with accommodation and employment. Despite the loud laughter and joy, anxiety and notes of fear slip through the liberated woman: “how will everything turn out in the wild?”

10. The most demanded product in the zone is payphone cards. Prisoners may not see their loved ones for years, as the families of many women live in neighboring regions, and it is not always financially possible to come for a long-term visit. And so they keep in touch through the phone. But there is a limit to such conversations. Each convicted person has the right to 15 minutes of telephone conversation per day.

11. The convicts are fully supported by the state. In addition, they have transmissions from relatives. In the local shop once a month they can buy everything they need. Cigarettes are second in importance. Almost everyone smokes, regardless of age and position. They don't quit here, they start smoking here. There is no other way to calm down

12. Here, in the zone, there is a special atmosphere - sincerity or falsehood is immediately determined. Women are kept by "families", family members are not given offense. The head of the family is the queen, the rest are princesses

13. The bath unit works almost every day. The administration went to meet the prisoners and allowed them to equip a shower room with the detachments themselves

15. Laundry and ironing units are well equipped

16. Medical unit. Almost every second woman has serious illnesses

17. Hall of the quarantine block on the second floor. Now only one woman is undergoing adaptation. After arriving at the institution, the prisoner spends 15 days in the quarantine department. Psychologists, doctors, and the educational department immediately begin to work with her, after which she is transferred to one of the detachments on a regular regime, on which she stays for six months. It differs from the facilitated one in that dates take place every three months. There are more privileges in the light mode - permission for monthly transfers, a date of up to 3 days every two months, there are incentive meetings and transfers

18. Despite the spacious dining room, each squad enters at its own time

20. When we were filming in the dining room, one woman, leaving, shouted: “Come more often, they will feed us better,” and another added: “The food is normal, you can’t please everyone here and they bring us transfers, have you seen full refrigerators?”

21. Fresh bread smells far outside the bakery. In colony UG-157/11 they bake the best bread among all zones of the country

22. The head baker, Ira, also worked in the bakery outside. Baking bread is her calling.

23. According to the baker, the secret of delicious bread is in the good flour of the first grade of the Kostanay region and in the humane, conscientious attitude of the bakers

24. On a shift, Ira with six assistants hand over 1000 rolls, provide for their own and neighboring male colony

25. Baker is one of the most prestigious and paid jobs in the colony. The chief baker receives 23,000 tenge

26. Every second woman has a debt to the state - lawsuits, state fees, legal costs. Therefore, many people are interested in getting paid work. The administration is constantly working on the issue of employment among convicts, of all prisoners only 60 women work. Soon the colony plans to open a fish shop

27. There is a small sewing shop for 34 women, in which clothes are sewn for prisoners in male colonies. They do not refuse third-party orders here either: overalls for hospitals, for oil companies. In addition, there are detachments of household servants with a salary of 21,000 tenge - kitchen workers, janitors, foremen of detachments, workers of a bath and laundry plant, a librarian

28. At the correctional institution there is a college where they teach in such specialties as a seamstress, cutter, confectioner, cook, hairdresser. This year, diplomas were awarded to 87 convicts

29. The prison library is constantly updated, there is an agreement on this with the state library

30. Demand for books is high - almost everyone reads, mostly fiction

31. A few books on religious topics. This year, 60 women kept the orazu at first, but due to the hot summer (air conditioners and fans are not allowed), 30 fasting remained.

32. The colony has a Sports and Leisure Section (SSS), which includes a library, acrobatics courses and, of course, the organization of cultural events. This institution hosts the best and most costumed concerts of any zone.

33. The foreman of the first detachment, Bibigul, where the SDS belongs, admits that a lot of effort has been invested in order to achieve such a level of the show. The administration willingly meets halfway, gives the opportunity to train, allocates money, provides training videos

36. Prisoners make costumes and decorations with their own hands, they can sew ball gowns from ribbons and pieces

37. In the evenings they play the intellectual game "Field of Miracles"

38. There are several girls in the SDS whose sports and dance data meet the requirements of the section

39. Olga - fizorg (organizer of physical education) and dance director of the SDS, age - 32 years. Article 259 - drugs.

She served over seven years. Only 2 years and 10 months left before the call. He does not like to talk about his personal life. In another institution, she was a persistent violator, so she did not pass on parole. Here, in UG - 166/11 - she is the right person, the master - golden hands: an electrician, a carpenter and a specialist in welding and installation work. I learned all this in the zone

40. In addition, Olga successfully leads the acrobatics section

41. Katya is engaged in acrobatics and dancing in the SSD. Age 32 years. Article 259 - drugs. Term - 11 years, served 4 years 4 months.

In Aktau, where she lived, she had her own small clothing store. She and her friend often flew to Turkey for goods. Then I decided to bring ecstasy tablets, not for sale, but for personal use. Now her two daughters are in the care of a 63-year-old retired mother. The last time she saw them two and a half years ago, mom does not have the opportunity to bring her daughters for a long-term date. Now she only sees in the photo how her daughters grow up. Katya understood for sure that not a single pleasure in life is worth exchanging it for the opportunity to raise her own children. In three years, she hopes for parole. After the term ends, she wants to devote herself to her daughters. Correspondence with convicted men is not uncommon in the colony. But Katya no longer wants to start a relationship. There, in freedom, everything is easier. A man loved you, loved you, and then stopped loving you, but this disappointment is hard to bear even in the wild. And here, in the zone, even with a howl of a she-wolf, there is nothing to close the void. Therefore, she crushed all female feelings in herself and only dreams of seeing her children more often - at least once every six months.

42. The approximate age of the staff of the prison administration is from 20 to 30 years. 90% is a female team, as a rule, the majority are not married. Permanent employment at work does not allow many to engage in personal life

43. Head of the detachment Botagoz Nurkhanova, 28 years old. Works since the opening of the colony.

“When I first came here to work, I thought: “What am I doing here?” It was really scary, says Botagoz. – The turning point happened when I had to morally support one prisoner. After you realize that they are ordinary women who just need understanding

44. Prisoners address Botagoz with the word "mother", so symbolically they call all the heads of the detachments. Of all the employees of the administration, the chiefs of the detachments are closest to the convicts. Together with the foreman, he coordinates and monitors compliance with the regime. Communications between "moms" and convicts in this zone are primarily of a human nature. The broken female fate of some prisoners causes sympathy and understanding among their guards. Over time, you practically have to live with the problems of your wards, write their characteristics, represent them in court. "Moms" - a link between convicts and senior officers

45. The administration petitions, writes positive characteristics of convicts with exemplary behavior. But, nevertheless, the last word always remains with the judge. Many do not go through the courts, there are enough reasons for this: outstanding debts, absence or vice versa, a large number of incentives, a short term of imprisonment, serious convictions. The most common court reply: “How is it different from other convicts?”

46. ​​The main articles for which women fall here are: 259 - sale, possession and distribution of drugs, 177 - fraud and 96 - domestic murder, and much less often, infanticide

47. The photo shows a copy of the SMS from the partner of one of the convicts, he sent these messages to her on the day of the trial. The girl took the blame of her boyfriend on herself, at first she went as an accomplice. As a result, he is serving 5 years for apartment fraud. The convict admits her guilt, but being within the walls of the colony she is trying to get the person who pushed her to commit fraud to jail

48. Prisoners have the right to visits: short visits of two, four hours and long-term visits of three days. There is also an opportunity to see the convicts on the open day

49. Inspector in the screening and visiting room (KDS) Gulim Kushenova accepts documents from a man who came for a long-term visit with his wife

- Most often they visit convicts - Kazakhs, - says Gulim. - They come with children, relatives. Bring food, clothes, detergents

50. At the entrance to the women's colony there is a stand with photographs of things prohibited for transfer.

51. Hall of the meeting place - a room without a hint of gloom. All furniture - cabinets, tables, is done right there, without leaving the zone. Visitors and convicts are provided with all the conditions for a long meeting: a separate room, kitchen, hall, shower

52. Nina Petrovna, age 61. Article 259 - drugs. The term is 10 years. She served 1 year and 6 months.

Husband and granddaughter came to her for the first time in a year and a half. In the zone, she has proven herself exclusively from the good side. She underwent several heart surgeries. The living from the colony does not hope to get out. There have been suicide attempts

53. - My son is serving a sentence under the same article, - says Nina Petrovna. - After the UBN officers began to beat him during the investigation, I began to write numerous complaints-statements in order to stop the bullying. I was threatened that if I didn’t stop, I would soon find myself behind bars. I continued to write and soon the police "accidentally" found several grams of heroin on my bed ... So I ended up here. I tried to lay hands on myself, but they stopped me. No, you don’t think, the conditions here and the attitude of the administration are normal, but it’s psychologically difficult for me

54. Raima, age 40. Article 259 - drugs. Term 10 years, served 3 years and 2 months.

“My husband died nine years ago,” says Raima. - I was left with three small children, the youngest daughter was 8 months old, my parents are pensioners. I was the only breadwinner in the family. A few years later, she got involved with a man. He helped with money, with the housework - we had our own cattle. Then I decided to expand the grocery store. I sold the store and started construction, but did not receive the promised loan from the bank. So I was left without a business and income. She began to sell fruit in the yard, and in the meantime, her partner set up the sale of heroin. Roommate was given 10 years of strict regime, I was imprisoned for complicity

55. - I was able to visit my mother for the second time in three years, - says Alima, Raima's eldest daughter. - As soon as my contract with the company ended, I immediately brought the younger ones for a long-term date with my mother

56. Alima works as a marriage manager in a furniture store. With a salary of 60,000 tenge, Alima is now the family's sole breadwinner. Recently, she prepared her younger brother and sister for school, bought clothes and stationery. She wants to return to Aktobe to be closer to her family and visit her mother more often. Alima is worried about her mother's health - her eyesight rapidly deteriorated in the zone - it became minus twenty, they also found tuberculosis. She answers evasively to questions about her personal life, she decided not to be friends and not get married until her mother is free

57. This year, the transfer to settlement colonies of those convicted of especially serious crimes was cancelled. Mothers of many children who have committed domestic murders or women who are forced to be involved in drug trafficking will serve their entire term away from their children, who are often in the care of elderly grandparents or in orphanages. So, they are most likely to be released on parole after serving 2/3 of the term

58. Vera, age 30. Article 96 - Murder. Term 6 years, served 2 years, 9 months.

She got married and had daughters. They lived happily and well, but soon her husband began to assault, for seven years she endured his difficult character. Daughters, seeing a drunken father, immediately went to bed, they were so afraid of him. The drunken husband was extremely cruel, he could grab his daughters or Vera and beat his head against the wall, hit him with any object that came to his hand. Threatened with an ax, kicked, kicked out of the house. He even beat his relatives - raised his hand to his mother. It all ended with a stab in the heart. Moreover, Vera does not remember how it happened, she wants to remember under hypnosis. The children were left in the care of a sick mother. The injured party has no claims. Vera wrote to the Supreme Court, the Prosecutor General, filed a petition with the President - all to no avail so far.

59. Hope, age 24. Article 96 - Murder. Term 11 years, served 3 years, 1 month.

She lived and worked as a nanny in Astana, studied to be an accountant. Then, due to financial difficulties, she moved to a small village in the Aktobe region. Once we were walking with friends, decided to continue the fun and went home to a new acquaintance - a man of retirement age. In the morning, when everyone fell asleep, he began to pester her and raped her. Being in the strongest alcoholic intoxication, she was very frightened, began to resist, grabbed a knife from the table and struck ten blows. She called the police herself. She frankly admitted her guilt. During the investigation, she found out that she was pregnant. She decided to leave, now her son is 2 years old. He was taken in and raised by an unemployed mother who has no way to come for a long-term date. On the phone, Nadezhda often talks with her son, he addresses her by name, thinks that she is his sister. She works as a seamstress in the zone. Having paid off all claims, he sends the earned money home. He repents and knows that he deserves punishment. Hopes for transfer to a colony-settlement at the place of residence

60. Mahabbat, age 22. Article 180 - accomplice in rape. The term of 6 years of strict regime, taking into account the age of the convict, she was transferred to general. She served three years.

Walked in the evening with a friend in a noisy company. After some time, in a strong alcoholic intoxication, she left, and the girlfriend remained - as a result of gang rape. In addition to her, 5 people are involved in the case. Mahabbat was accused of pandering, that she forcibly took the victim away from home. The victim then gave birth to a daughter, handed over to an orphanage. Mahabbat dreams of becoming a photographer

61. Marina. 41 years old Article 96 - domestic murder. Term - 6 years. She served 3 years, 3 months.

They gave a short time, because the injured party had no claims. She lived with her second husband for ten years. He constantly drank, did not work, beat her and the children. And during another scandal, Marina took two knives and stabbed him simultaneously in the heart and liver. Died on the spot. Marina's two children - a 17-year-old son and an 11-year-old daughter - live with her brother and daughter-in-law

62. Tamara, 32 years old. Article 96 - Murder. Term - 9 years, served 7 years.

Husband drank and abused for seven years. Once a drunk came, a quarrel broke out. She stood with her one-year-old son in her arms, he hit her and hit her son in the ear. The auricle burst, blood splattered on the wall. Then Tamara grabbed a knife and plunged it into her husband's heart. Her three children - daughters 12 and 5 years old, son 3 years old - were taken care of by her parents. I have not seen children for the last two years. Works as a dishwasher in the canteen for the sake of rewards, wants to get parole

63. Zarina acrobat SSD. Age 25 years. Article 96 - Murder. Term -8 years. She served 4 years.

Pupil of the Aktobe orphanage. For the first time "closed" at the age of 17. I wanted to earn money by transporting drugs to Russia. She stayed there for three years. Already on the outside, she fell in love with a guy, began to meet him. At his birthday party, he accidentally killed a neighbor while drunk in a fight. She left the bathroom, and in the room there was already a corpse in a pool of blood. The guy shouted to her to run away, but she did not do this, she decided to be with him to the end. Then the police arrived, an ambulance. She made a sincere confession. She took all the blame, her beloved asked - and told her so, women are given less time, and I will wait for you ... But the last time she saw him was in the courtroom. In the colony, she acquired the skills of a seamstress-mechanic and a fitter. Also dances in a local club, the best acrobat. Now she has one dream left - to visit Paris and look at the Eiffel Tower.