Procedures through bars and examination in handcuffs: how doctors work in prisons. Women in a pre-trial detention center. Life in a Moscow women's pre-trial detention center. Rules for conducting a personal search, searching the belongings of suspects, accused, convicted and other persons, searches, etc.

I remember how indignant Ekaterina Samutsevich was when on Easter a priest came into the cell of the same pre-trial detention center-6: “And without asking me, he began to pour water on everything, sprinkled me without my desire. I didn't want him to perform a religious ceremony. We have a secular state,” Samutsevich said.

Pregnant women are also kept in the same large common chamber. Dietary food in the form of milk, eggs and cottage cheese is given only from the sixth month of pregnancy. Until then, there will be a common table. Although nowhere in the PVR does it say such a restriction by month of pregnancy. On the contrary, absolutely all pregnant women are required to eat a diet, and three months before giving birth, as prescribed by a doctor, additional nutrition may also be prescribed. Paragraph 22 of the PVR talks about creating “improved material and living conditions” for pregnant women.

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But, he says: measures have already been taken, the guilty have been punished, yes.

And the motive is simple: the investigation missed all the extension deadlines, they deceived the prosecutor that Kachalova had familiarized herself with the case, in theory, because of the missed deadlines, she should have been released by law. And so she did not have time to submit any petitions or anything to the prosecutor’s office. Apparently, the investigation found a way out to the pre-trial detention center operative, and she decided to put pressure on Kachalova.
to correct this mistake. Such are the things. She will have a jury trial. Well, let's see.

I came here for the first time, to the adult zone. The first time I was imprisoned was at the age of 14. There was really something to put me in prison for, I robbed the accounting department of the military prosecutor's office and the director of the company. They immediately gave me three years.

V. - Do you have a family?

ABOUT.
- I only have my mother, there is no one else.

V. - Mom, this is not so little. What is your relationship with her?

In addition, the threat of disciplinary sanctions, including placement in a punishment cell or even a review of the case not in favor of the convicted person, is a deterrent.

Subtle psychologists

For a doctor, communicating with each new patient is an exam, and passing begins not with drawing out a ticket, but with the first seconds of communication.

“They are all psychologists. Even during the initial examination by a doctor, the convict immediately assesses the situation, what he can afford and what he cannot. Those for whom a new sentence is a common thing have already been through different pre-trial detention centers, different colonies, communicated with different people during their imprisonment, and learned a lot, including the basics of psychology,” Afanasyev explained.

Some rather subtle psychologists from among the prisoners managed to make nurses fall in love with them, of course, and they themselves imitated ardent feelings.

I was imprisoned at the age of 17, I am still 17 years old. I was given 3 years 6 months; 6 months I served my sentence and have 3 years left. They can give me a deferment on one condition, if my mother writes a certificate that she will take me on bail, but my mother does not write to me at all. I do not know why.

V. - Is everything okay with her, these people didn’t destroy her?

— No, we made a request to find out what was there at home.

V. - Don’t you write it yourself, Nastya?

O. — I wrote 3 or 4 letters to my mother in a month. I have my mother’s work phone number, but I don’t know if she works at her old place.

I didn't know I was pregnant when I sat down. The child's father is there, he has a family, children too. He is 32 years old.
I was imprisoned on January 20, after 7 weeks I saw that I had no menstruation...

V. - Where were you put? Have you been in the Arkhangelsk pre-trial detention center?

O. - Yes, to Popov.

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As Marina Artamonova says, “medical worker Galina Valentinovna” threw these medicines into her “feeding trough”, and most of the medicines ended up in the corridor. The “feeding trough” slammed shut. The course of treatment prescribed by the doctor “from the outside” was not completed. And among local drugs, according to women, for all occasions - citramon and analgin, analgin and citramon.

Holidays in the Bastille are generally days of stagnation.

Applications and complaints are not accepted on holidays. One of the women has severe psoriasis on her hands. She was prescribed treatment before the holidays, treated for a couple of days, and then New Year. Treatment was stopped. Everyone is resting. The first aid station is closed.

One of the women complains of heart problems.

She has been in pre-trial detention for almost two years. During this time, they tried to do an ECG only once, but the device broke down.

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The ex-investigator herself completely denies guilt.

“There was an order from above that there should be a high-profile case against the police,” she says. “So neither personal characteristics, nor certificates of honor, nor awards, nor many years of work could play any role... Everything was predetermined in advance, although I continue to challenge every step of the investigation, every illegally made decision. Of course, doing this in custody is many times more difficult than in freedom. This is the purpose of our being here under arrest. Basically, the charges against us are based on the testimony of the so-called “pre-trial officers” (those defendants who made a deal with the investigation, hoping in this way to achieve leniency).
Our arguments stand nothing against the words of the “pre-trial officers.” To be placed in custody is the investigator’s hope to break our will and force us to incriminate ourselves or other people.

Angela has been in custody for two years.

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Important

There is no work in the pre-trial detention center, and waking up at six in the morning if you don’t have to go to court is pointless. Just another mockery.

In a pre-trial detention center you can easily become infected with tuberculosis. Theoretically, every new prisoner should undergo fluorography.

But often the check is carried out when a person has already been transferred from quarantine to a general cell, or is not carried out at all. A nineteen-year-old student at the Law Academy, the daughter of one of my cellmates, is suspected of having stage IV tuberculosis. Before that, a woman with tuberculosis was put in their cell.

You can also catch the infection in the paddy wagon where the patient was being transported before you.

The attendants never say where they are taking them. “With documents” means that they will be taken to the investigative unit, where the investigator or lawyer came. “Slightly” - on a date. “According to the season” - to the punishment cell. “Get ready to go” - to court or for an examination.

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I ask for a spoon and try it. In my opinion, this is something inedible. However, they say they will give us more fish now. I can’t wait for the fish, but I don’t need to eat this vegetable stew. I ask the prisoners (40 women in the cell) - do you even eat this? Yes Yes…

They just smile a little and roll their eyes a little more.

I don’t understand why in our advanced days people need to be fed such a thing. Well, yes, they are prisoners. And if not all, then many, committed crimes. So what now? Why can’t you cook and give women at least some potatoes and a cutlet? After all, this is where global disrespect for a person begins - you can’t feed him like a pig if you don’t want him to feel like that pig...

OK. The girl, by the way, is sitting according to the station. 126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - kidnapping. She says: kidnapping of a man. This is a close friend of her friend. I don't understand, it's a strange story.

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Violence against women in the zone is a common problem that, due to its sexual connotations, is rarely covered on television. Prisoners are forced to adapt to difficult living conditions and endure humiliation.

How do women live in colonies in Russia, what are the rules and conditions in places of detention? Real facts and notes.

How do they live in places of detention?
Types of violence and torture
Orders in the colonies
How to behave for the first time?
How is the inspection carried out?
Conditions in the cells

Is there violence against women prisoners in Russia?

Bullying and torture of a sexual nature in the prison department of the Russian Federation are systemic in nature.

Women being examined in prison. Rules for conducting a personal search, inspection of the belongings of suspects, accused, convicted and other persons, searches and technical inspection of cells

The former women's medical treatment center became a women's detention center in 1996. People call it “Bastille”

All cell windows face the courtyard. Moreover, the windows are small, near the ceiling, the glass is either dirty or badly scratched, and there are metal bars, each a few centimeters long.

So there is minimal natural light in the cells.

The only women's pre-trial detention center in Moscow is overcrowded by 250 people.

Apparently, they will soon install three-tier beds, since the free floor space is already measured not in meters, but in centimeters. All passages in the cells are filled with cots that sag to the floor. There are 40 people in the cell. To go to the toilet - sideways, along the wall... There are two toilets. No privacy.

One of them was found with a baby there and they started letting everyone through. They didn’t let me through, they took me out earlier. And the girls then passed a note through the “horse”. How we deliver letters: how did we get there, what do you have, what do we have... For example, if I don’t have cigarettes, but I want to smoke, then I knock, and they release the “horse” and that’s it. And they catch us downstairs, these dubaks, as we call them, tear them off with a stick and take everything for themselves, do not return it, even if it’s some kind of thing, tea. Everything is taken away completely. All my food was taken away when I arrived at the prison. They said that “this is not possible, this is not possible” and they pulled everything out, it turns out that all this was possible. It’s just what shift you’ll run into.

V. - Don’t you know about the inspection?

O. — First, when a person arrives there, they check his head. If your hair is short, they don’t pay attention to it, and you go through further inspection.

The first is that the accusations are based on an absolutely sober calculation (as a rule, not by the “victim” herself, but by her lawyer and the “support group”) - by telling the chilling details of sadistic rapes and perversions, replicating these details in the media, to attract attention and compassion inexperienced public and morally influence the upcoming trial.

The second option is the lie of the “unfortunate” herself, caused by obvious hysterical reactions: having lied once in this way, she begins to fervently believe in her own lies and continues to lie completely sincerely, entangling her fantasies with more and more new details and without thinking about their obvious absurdity. However, both options are usually combined.

In temporary detention centers, women are housed separately from men, and since women are rarely “accepted,” they mostly sit alone.

I know this man from the first term, and from the second term, and by will I know him...

V. - Who is this man?

O. — DPNS, I don’t know his details. When I went to see the investigator or somewhere else, for some reason he always came across to replace me. And then he puts me in a punishment cell.

V. - For what?

He should take me to the investigator. He should put me separately from the women, because... I’m a teenager, he should put me in a “glass”. He puts me, along with all these women, in a box, it’s not even a punishment cell, it’s such a circle in which everyone is like fish, like a herring in a barrel. He put us there. I feel stuffy and smelly there.

And there is such sensitivity, I feel everything, and there are also 10 people smoking there at once. I knock and say: “Duty officer, come to the cell.” He comes up and I ask him to put me in the “glass”, because... It's hard for me.

Depends on the shift: “human factor”. Some of the women complain that they shower once every ten days. There are no pens and paper to write statements and complaints. The employees said that nothing is issued on holidays, everything is after January 9th. Another complaint: On December 31, new arrivals were kept locked in the shower for two and a half hours. The water is cold, from the tap. They don't give you boiling water. They ask: you don’t know why the tea is so smelly - is the water here like that, or is it specially made that way? They also don’t accept packages on holidays, and there is no boiler. One of the women had a heart ache in the morning and asked for validol. They brought it in the evening. Women say that they can knock and call the attendant for a long time: either she will not hear, or there will also be a knock in response from the other side.

In the collection point cell (this is a semi-basement room where women are usually kept before being sent to court) there are always two women who have gone on hunger strike.

In general, the morning was spent watching “Daddy’s Daughters,” regional news and a music channel.

We've had enough experimentation!

Camera checks take place at 8 am. We listened with bated breath to the jangling of keys, impatiently waiting for the inspectors. When the door finally opened, we immediately declared that the experiment was enough and we wanted to go home. However, we were checked. We received a bunch of comments: the bed was not made correctly, the dishes were not washed. But in order to wash it, I had to eat breakfast. And although the stewed cabbage with stunted sausages didn’t look so bad, for some reason we didn’t feel like eating.

According to the plan of the pre-trial detention center staff, on the second day we had to go through all the doctors and talk with a psychologist in order to exclude suicidal tendencies. Then we had a walk. But we flatly refused and completed the experiment.

The console is operated by only 1 operator. The staff - men and women - is 50/50. There is a punishment cell where girls are also placed, but they are told that one or two days is enough to stop barraging and return to the cell. Everything is of course clean and European. But God forbid anyone to enter these places except with a camera and a notepad.

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Previously, on the site of the Kirovgrad pre-trial detention center there was a military unit of internal troops, which was engaged in escorting convicts. We had to tear everything down and rebuild everything again.

There really are no common dogs here. Two perimeter fencing systems - 6 meters and 5 and a half - give practically no chance...

Transfer reception room

With a book of reviews and wishes, which falls on the desk of the head of the pre-trial detention center every morning

A massive modern gateway where convoys of imprisoned girls arrive

By the way, the flashlights are also modern - they use LEDs, the service life of which (as it is written at least) is 60 years.

Such inscriptions are everywhere here.

And this picture is almost everywhere

Clean

A chamber for pregnant girls, and for those whose children are born here.

The police were put there to keep watch so that people would not steal. We got there, and they asked: “Why did you come here?” - “Look at your things, we lived here.” - “Half the rooms were robbed, the doors were knocked down... Come on, get in the car.” And we were taken to a sobering-up center.

Then they took this girl, she was rude, but I was normal. They took her and put her in a cell. Then someone came (I don’t know how he knows me) and said: “What are you doing here?” - "Nothing". - "Come with me". He took me into a room and said: “Sit, I’ll be right back.”

After that, two people come in and say: “Come on, take off your clothes.” - “Why am I going to undress?” - “You were detained, you are drunk...” - “How drunk am I?!” - “Come on, come on, take off your clothes.” - "I will not undress". Then one left, and I sat there alone for about 20 minutes, then three more came and said: “Have you decided to undress?” - “I won’t undress.”
Either the lightly salted trout will disappear, then the face cream, or the cigarettes. Even toilet paper is disappearing. For example, four rolls are sent, but only one reaches the recipient. Where did the other three go? For example, Artamonova, a still active senior investigator at the Perovo Department of Internal Affairs, who has been in pre-trial detention center No. 6 for a year now, said that when they brought her a package from relatives ordered through an online store, the package was opened and should have been sealed.

The cigarettes were gone. On December 26 last year, “health worker Galina Valentinovna” brought Artamonova medicines donated from relatives. As Marina Artamonova says, “medical worker Galina Valentinovna” threw these medicines into her “feeding trough”, and most of the medicines ended up in the corridor. The “feeding trough” slammed shut. The course of treatment prescribed by the doctor “from the outside” was not completed.

The protocol of the personal search, inspection of the belongings of the suspect, accused and convicted person, as well as the act of confiscation of prohibited items are attached to his personal file.

The procedure for registration, accounting and storage of valuables confiscated from suspects, accused and convicted persons is regulated in accordance with the current legislation of the Russian Federation regulating this area of activity.

In case of an incomplete personal search, a report is drawn up on the seizure of prohibited items.

To increase the efficiency of searches, technical means are used, as well as specially trained dogs.

X-ray equipment may only be used to search the belongings and clothing of suspects, accused and convicted persons.

The suffering of men, in general, is of little interest to anyone.

It must be admitted that in recent years, torture and other violence against detainees (both women and men) have had a clear downward trend. “Delayed” by constant checks from the prosecutor’s office, police officers try to avoid violence, ignoring the hypocritical anger of their superiors over the lack of the notorious detection rate.

Sexual harassment occurs quite rarely and only at the first stage, before the detainee is placed in a temporary detention center (IVS). However, sometimes the woman herself provokes such harassment, offering to somehow “resolve the issues” and thereby hinting at the possibility of intimate services.

Sexual violence almost never occurs. From time to time this topic is raised by one of the former arrested and convicted people.

There are two options for such “confession”.

...It would be better if they never came here.

MOSCOW, June 17 - RIA Novosti, Marina Lukovtseva. Their patients will not bring a classic set of cognac and sweets as a gift in honor of Medic's Day; there will not even be bouquets for women. Not because doctors and nurses are bad or patients are ungrateful - you just need to keep your distance.

A RIA Novosti correspondent visited a hospital located on the territory of a maximum security men's colony (IK-3) in Vladimir, and found out why gifts from prisoners are taboo, that every doctor behind bars involuntarily becomes a psychologist, and also why doctors in uniform know how to control their fear and can recognize a malingerer from the first seconds.

Happy holiday, sculptors!

“Convicts always congratulate them on February 23, the New Year, women on March 8, and on all holidays.

According to the rules, it was necessary to undress completely. But somehow this idea did not inspire us. So we made do with a superficial examination of the skin for the presence of contagious skin diseases and the scalp for lice. If a contagious disease is detected, the person and his belongings are sent for sanitary treatment.

The medical examination takes a lot of time,” noted the pre-trial detention center doctor. — We have two medical offices in different buildings. In one, arrivals are checked, in the other, departures. The turnover is terrible: those who need to be interrogated at departments come for medical examinations, and those who are sent to colonies come from trains. Such people can sit in a pre-trial detention center for only one night. We check about 500 detainees a day.

After the medical examination, our passports were taken away. And it’s strange - without him you somehow immediately feel unprotected. Instead of a document of a citizen of the Russian Federation, chamber cards were issued to the participants of the experiment.

Happy holiday, sculptors!

“Convicts always congratulate on February 23, the New Year, women on March 8, and on all holidays. And on our professional holidays, of course,” said the head of the branch of the tuberculosis hospital No. 1 of the FKUZ MSCh-33 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, Alexey Afanasyev, in the tone of a real storyteller. But the willingness to hear stories about fabulous gifts immediately ran into a significant “but”.

“But we cannot afford to accept anything from them. This is not written down anywhere, but we ourselves understand that a certain distance must be kept. I will not take anything from the convict,” a neurologist at the health center of the branch of the tuberculosis hospital No. 1 of the FKUZ MSC picked up the story. -33 Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia Oksana Kolotushkina.

“We are not only people in white coats, we wear shoulder straps. We follow medical rules and ethics, and we have rules of conduct for a FSIN employee,” explained the deputy head of FKUZ MSCh-33 of the FSIN of Russia, doctor Natalya Koshokina.

According to her, this distance has been observed at all times, and it can neither be shortened nor extended. “If you lengthen the distance, you will leave the profession, from the person. If you shorten it, you will violate the border on which respect is built. This, perhaps, in addition to the daily passage through the checkpoint, is the main difference from doctors in the wild,” added Koshokina.

By the way, despite the presence in prison jargon of a rather dissonant nickname in relation to doctors - “sculpted”, no one dares to voice it to their face. The highest degree of respect is to address prisoners by their patronymics.

“They call me Alekseich. They’ve been calling me that since I came here,” said smiling the most experienced of the employees, whose general medical experience has long exceeded the half-century mark, a general practitioner at the health center of the branch of the tuberculosis hospital No. 1 of the FKUZ MSCH-33 of the Federal Penitentiary Service. Russia Robert Alekseevich Oparin.

Not a pioneer camp

Boundaries are not only defined by moral and codified norms. At first glance, the corridors of the hospital in the colony are no different from medical institutions in the wild - the same smell of cleanliness and medicine, the same gurney for transporting bedridden patients. But the bars, the frequency of which increases depending on the danger of the criminal, on the doors of the chambers neutralize all similarities. The treatment rooms also have cut-off bars, with special openings for intravenous and intramuscular injections, and an inspector is on duty nearby during procedures.

Once upon a time, according to doctors, there were almost no such bars; they were introduced everywhere at the beginning of the 2000s after a wave of kidnappings of health workers. Then video cameras and panic buttons appeared, including portable ones, which female health workers always carry with them.

“Yes, this is not a pioneer camp. That’s for sure,” Koshokina noted. “Yes, not everyone can work for us. Many doctors refuse to come here because they cannot imagine that they need to examine and touch a person who has committed a crime,” and What if he does something to me? "You need to be able to overcome this fear. Confidence in your safety helps. Because we observe it ourselves."

Unaccompanied women are prohibited from moving through the corridors of the hospital and the colony. Even in the event of an emergency, they are required to wait for the inspector or a male doctor. If a nurse needs to go from the treatment room to the post, she will do this only when the prisoners who came for injections leave the corridor, so as not to provoke a potentially dangerous situation.

“If in the Vladimir Central you are supposed to go to a particularly dangerous convict with a canine handler with a dog and four guards, then I won’t go there alone. It’s supposed to examine a patient in handcuffs, I will do this, no matter how difficult it may make the examination,” Kolotushkina clarified.

If such precautions inspire confidence in a female doctor in uniform, they only increase fear in a female journalist. Fortunately, a visit to especially dangerous criminals, for obvious reasons, could not be included in the list of visits. The question naturally arises whether prisoners allow provocative behavior towards doctors in order to instill fear.

“In the prison environment, the expression of any kind of negativity, negative actions towards medical workers is not welcome. Because the only people in prison who can save their lives. A person who allows such an attitude will look pale in front of his own people,” Afanasiev assured . In addition, the threat of disciplinary sanctions, including placement in a punishment cell or even a review of the case not in favor of the convicted person, is a deterrent.

Subtle psychologists

Communication with each new patient is an exam for a doctor, and passing begins not with pulling out a ticket, but with the first seconds of communication.

“They are all psychologists. Even during the initial examination by a doctor, the convict immediately assesses the situation, what can be afforded, what cannot be done. Those for whom a new sentence is a common thing have already been through different pre-trial detention centers, different colonies, communicated with different people during their imprisonment, much more. we learned, including the basics of psychology,” Afanasyev explained.

Some rather subtle psychologists from among the prisoners managed to make nurses fall in love with them, of course, and they themselves imitated ardent feelings. “But these feelings hide selfish interests, including requests to bring something forbidden into the zone. This is where the girls get burned. In my memory, there were several cases. The operations department stopped attempts to bring something in. The nurses were forced to quit,” said Afanasiev.

If the doctor is a newbie, he will be subject to a full check. “When a doctor first arrives at a new place of work, he is given a “visitation.” Convicts begin to visit him en masse, often with far-fetched complaints, in order to “test out” the person. And this pilgrimage will continue until the convicts form a complete understanding of this doctor,” Afanasyev said.

Diagnosis of "malingerer"

If in the wild a certain percentage of the working-age population simply tries to buy sick leave, then prisoners deprived of this opportunity use all their knowledge and acting abilities.

“Here a patient comes in. And by the way he comes in, you already begin to collect information. We look at how he behaves, how he talks, what he complains about... A clear knowledge of the clinical picture of the disease always helps out. When there is a discrepancy in the description of symptoms by the convicts, one complaint contradicts another, doubts are already creeping in. That is, he heard it somewhere, read it, and gets confused when describing it. Already at this stage, the doctor may suspect a simulation,” Kolotushkina said.

As an example, she cited a recent case when a patient in a pre-trial detention center, before being sent to court, suddenly began to complain of severe back pain. He gave himself up when the doctor asked him to make a couple of movements that would be impossible in case of real health problems, and the x-ray only strengthened her assumptions - simulation.

“We had one convict with hypertension. He really didn’t want to leave us - the conditions were better than in the detachment. And suddenly, before being discharged, he announced that his legs couldn’t walk. We agreed on transportation. The orderlies took him on a stretcher ", they carried him. And for some reason they couldn’t get him through the doorway: they tried this way and that, almost dropped him. After another threat to fall off the stretcher, the “patient” got angry, jumped up and climbed into the paddy wagon himself," she recalled Kolotushkina.

"But not everyone gives themselves away right away. About six or seven years ago there was a patient who just fell ill and lay there, his legs couldn’t walk. We examined him thoroughly. We didn’t find anything. We tried to discharge him back to the zone. They returned him to us because he continued to lie. The nut turned out to be hard - we fought with him for a year and a half. Then, miraculously, we were convinced to take him to the zone. A few months later, we had the opportunity to hold a visiting reception there - he walks," surprised even years later, he described a case of a phenomenal the perseverance of the prisoner by the head of the hospital.

There is another category of prisoners who are ready to take more radical measures to get to the hospital. “There was a case in 1978. The convict dismantled the bottom of the bed, which was attached with metal rings, and swallowed all these rings. It came out to 700 grams of metal. Some of the rings came out, but some did not... I had to operate,” Oparin said.

These cells, now renovated in accordance with the latest construction technologies and equipped with round-the-clock video surveillance, have practically made it impossible for prisoners to swallow anything inedible. Previously, according to doctors, in order to be admitted to hospital for a long time, convicts swallowed the tips of spoons, nails, and hooks from beds. “They also ate “hedgehogs”. A bunch of bent nails, tied with an elastic band, were fastened with bread crumb. When swallowed, the bread was digested, the rubber band unfolded and a “hedgehog” stood up, similar to an anti-tank one, only miniature. There is only surgical treatment here,” said Afanasiev.

“But there are also entertainers. For example, they glue a spoon to the back and go to take a picture, naively believing that the doctor will not understand whether this spoon is in the esophagus or on the back,” Koshokina said.

“Another category of patients that we have to deal with are those who have serious illnesses and refuse treatment. The reason is simple - it is beneficial for them to have a severe form of disability, because while they are sitting, they are paid disability benefits,” Afanasiev noted.

On the edge of life

There is also a place for medical achievements in the zone. Some survive only thanks to the doctors of this hospital. “We had a convict who was nicknamed Auschwitz because of his thinness. He weighed 35 kilograms and was about 185 centimeters tall. They brought him on a stretcher... He was given a short sentence - one and a half or two months. He was photographed as soon as he entered IK-3 and before leaving. They were two different people. He started walking,” Oparin said.

But besides such semi-comical cases, in the practice of each of the doctors in uniform there are cases of real salvation or prolongation of life. Sometimes they have to deal with rare diseases that are not treated in every region.

"Ormond's disease. The disease is severe, leads to disturbances of the entire urinary system, progresses to chronic renal failure, which will then require hemodialysis. We tried to find out who treats this with us. We received the answer: the one who identified it. The disease is at the intersection of different industries medicine. As a result, we raised the literature and developed tactics. We have been treating the patient for two years now. There is a positive trend - the second kidney was saved. We have reached such a level that we have slowed down the disease," Afanasiev shared his successes.

According to him, the convict with Ormond’s disease is still far from being released, which means he will still live, because, as practice shows, these people do not take care of their health at all when they are free. Former prisoners, Kolotushkina clarified, are simply not ready to bypass specialized specialists, to whom, in order to get an appointment, they need to be referred by therapists and undergo a whole set of tests. And the list of unique diagnoses made in this closed medical institution goes on.

Now the hospital has 379 beds - therapeutic, surgical, psychiatric departments and three tuberculosis departments, which are divided into profiles depending on the severity of the disease. It has its own laboratories and diagnostic equipment. The hospital also includes a health center that provides medical care to prisoners in IK-3.

“When they ask us whether we are afraid to work with tuberculosis, we answer: “not scary.” Because we know everything about it. And we know how to behave,” Kolotushkina noted.

According to doctors, people in the wild are in much greater danger. Immediately after release, tuberculosis patients, including those with multidrug resistance, simply disappear into the crowd, exposing others to the risk of contracting this severe form.

“Sometimes we literally accompany these released people by the hand to the tuberculosis dispensary. We inform the dispensary itself about the existence of such a patient, provide them with all the medical information. But usually everything is limited to this drive. These people do not appear at the tuberculosis dispensary anymore. This is probably the way out in such a situation there would be a law on compulsory treatment for socially dangerous diseases,” she added.

Five years ago, according to doctors, the governor of the Vladimir region, Svetlana Orlova, issued an order according to which tuberculosis patients, after their release, receive compensation payments and a set of products. This way they are encouraged to come to the tuberculosis clinic and register.

“Some patients, due to psychopathology, need to be sent for follow-up treatment after the end of their term. And we, as doctors, always ask the question: “Where will he go now?” And then high-profile cases arise, like in Nizhny Novgorod, when he stabbed six children and his wife to death. To the stage In remission, such people should be subject to compulsory treatment after being released from prison. But it turns out that then he is left to his own devices,” Afanasiev supported his colleague.

Alexei Afanasyev, like all Soviet boys, dreamed of heroic professions and, after working for several years as a military doctor, went “free for a while.” Even local old-timer Robert Alekseevich Oparin, who has been working in the system since the late 70s, could become a journalist, because in his youth he wrote notes for the newspaper and is still interested in writing - he has published several books at his own expense.© Photo: provided by the press service Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Vladimir Region

The only women's pre-trial detention center in Moscow is overcrowded by 250 people. Apparently, they will soon install three-tier beds, since the free floor space is already measured not in meters, but in centimeters. All passages in the cells are filled with cots that sag to the floor. There are 40 people in the cell. To go to the toilet sideways, along the wall There are two toilets. No privacy...

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The former women's medical treatment center became a women's detention center in 1996. People call it “Bastille”. All cell windows face the courtyard. Moreover, the windows are small, near the ceiling, the glass is either dirty or badly scratched, and there are metal bars, each a few centimeters long. So there is minimal natural light in the cells.

The only women's pre-trial detention center in Moscow is overcrowded by 250 people. Apparently, they will soon install three-tier beds, since the free floor space is already measured not in meters, but in centimeters. All passages in the cells are filled with cots that sag to the floor. There are 40 people in the cell. To go to the toilet - sideways, along the wall... There are two toilets. No privacy. According to the sanitary standard, there should be one toilet per 10 people. But what are the rules here?!

The accompanying officer makes an announcement: “The priest will come for Christmas and sprinkle everyone with water.” I ask, what if a woman is Muslim, Jewish or an atheist, and does not want to be sprinkled?! “She can go to the corner,” the officer replies, “they won’t do it by force.”

I didn’t see a free corner in the cell where I could “hide” from the sprinkling. When lined up in a cell, women are not placed in one row, and they are not allowed to stand in two rows of beds. Apparently, the only way to escape forced sprinkling is in the toilet. By the way, according to the internal regulations of the pre-trial detention center (PVR) (clause 101): “The performance of religious rites that violate<…>the rights of other suspects and accused.” I remember how indignant Ekaterina Samutsevich was when on Easter a priest came into the cell of the same pre-trial detention center-6: “And without asking me, he began to pour water on everything, sprinkled me without my desire. I didn't want him to perform a religious ceremony. We have a secular state,” Samutsevich said.

In the morning, the women were given porridge, at lunch there was pea soup for the first course, what was for the second - here the opinions of the “contingent”, as the staff call the women in the detention center, were divided: either a potato mass with soy meat or stew, or a potato mass with something unknown. I have never seen a positive review of this dish. Many pregnant women have toxicosis. They cannot eat potato mass with an unknown filling. Many pregnant women have no relatives in Moscow, which means there are no transmissions. A young woman from Tajikistan is in her third month of pregnancy, with severe toxicosis. A month ago the doctor prescribed injections, the injections were given, the nausea remained, the doctor did not prescribe anything else. Walks for pregnant women, as well as for everyone else, are an hour long, although according to clause 134 of the PVR “the duration of walks<…>pregnant women is not limited to.”

Thursday is a “naked day” at the Bastille. This is when women are driven out into the corridor in their underpants to be examined by a health worker. In addition to the medical workers, there are also employees in the corridor. And it doesn’t matter whether the employee is a man or a woman. Employee! And in front of them stands a naked woman in panties...

Women also say that when they are taken to the medical center for examination, they are forced to kneel and spread their buttocks... And the staff films this entire process on video.

Women in pre-trial detention centers do not understand why they are not supposed to know the names of the employees. This secrecy is explained by security measures. They are rude, beaten, humiliated - these are real employees, and these employees can be called by any name. It is impossible to check. Okay, last name and real name are a secret. But then let the employees wear badges with numbers, so that in women’s complaints it will not be written: “I was hit by employee Roman.” And if there were “Roman” under number... This “Roman”, for example, punched Lyudmila Kachalov in the face on July 19 last year. The woman fell, lost consciousness, and they were forced to call an ambulance, which recorded hematomas on her face, arms and legs. Neither an internal nor a prosecutor's investigation was carried out into the beating of Kachalova. “Roman” still works in pre-trial detention center-6. True, he no longer comes to see Kachalova, but at first, after what happened, he conveyed “hello” to her through his employee, who came to the cell, grabbed paper flowers and other handicrafts made by Kachalova from multi-colored paper napkins, threw them into the corridor and trampled on them in front of the prisoner’s eyes. legs...

Another of those who, according to women, mocks and humiliates them are employees under the names “Raisa Vasilievna” and “Anastasia Yuryevna.” Maybe, after all, an internal audit needs to be carried out in the pre-trial detention center, or maybe the supervisory prosecutor will become interested in what is happening in pre-trial detention center-6?!

Many women complained about missing content in the programs. Either the lightly salted trout will disappear, then the face cream, or the cigarettes. Even toilet paper is disappearing. For example, four rolls are sent, but only one reaches the recipient. Where did the other three go? For example, Artamonova, a still active senior investigator at the Perovo Department of Internal Affairs, who has been in pre-trial detention center No. 6 for a year now, said that when they brought her a package from relatives ordered through an online store, the package was opened and should have been sealed. The cigarettes were gone. On December 26 last year, “health worker Galina Valentinovna” brought Artamonova medicines donated from relatives. As Marina Artamonova says, “medical worker Galina Valentinovna” threw these medicines into her “feeding trough”, and most of the medicines ended up in the corridor. The “feeding trough” slammed shut. The course of treatment prescribed by the doctor “from the outside” was not completed. And among local drugs, according to women, for all occasions - citramon and analgin, analgin and citramon.

Holidays in the Bastille are generally days of stagnation. Applications and complaints are not accepted on holidays. One of the women has severe psoriasis on her hands. She was prescribed treatment before the holidays, treated for a couple of days, and then New Year. Treatment was stopped. Everyone is resting. The first aid station is closed.

One of the women complains of heart problems. She has been in pre-trial detention for almost two years. During this time, they tried to do an ECG only once, but the device broke down. Now, as we found out from the paramedic who was on duty during the holidays, the device seems to be working, but there is no paper. But the paper is special - rolled, you have to order it and then wait. How long should we wait? So who knows? For a long time, probably. I think that a woman in need of an ECG will be released sooner than an ECG will work in the isolation ward.

Women complain about herniated discs and receive the answer: “Almost everyone has this. It's OK". After spinal surgery, one of the women sleeps on a cot. Pain? “No problem,” is the answer. A woman wearing thick glasses asks for a consultation with an ophthalmologist. But there is a problem with the ophthalmologist, as well as with the dentist and surgeon.

There is silence on all floors of the Bastille, the radio does not work anywhere. Although, according to the same PVR, all cameras must be “equipped with a radio speaker for broadcasting a national program.” And since not all cells have a TV, it is very difficult for women to find out about what is happening outside the walls of the pre-trial detention center.

Quarantine. A small cell with a cot in the middle, you can't even walk sideways here. Sometimes they take you out for a walk, sometimes they don’t. Depends on the shift: “human factor”. Some of the women complain that they shower once every ten days. There are no pens and paper to write statements and complaints. The employees said that nothing is issued on holidays, everything is after January 9th. Another complaint: On December 31, new arrivals were kept locked in the shower for two and a half hours. The water is cold, from the tap. They don't give you boiling water. They ask: you don’t know why the tea is so smelly - is the water here like that, or is it specially made that way? They also don’t accept packages on holidays, and there is no boiler. One of the women had a heart ache in the morning and asked for validol. They brought it in the evening. Women say that they can knock and call the attendant for a long time: either she will not hear, or there will also be a knock in response from the other side.

In the collection point cell (this is a semi-basement room where women are usually kept before being sent to court) there are always two women who have gone on hunger strike. The reason for the hunger strike is red tape and, according to the women, illegal court sentences. There was no money for lawyers, so the defense in court was from the state.

Anastasia Melnikova, has been on hunger strike since December 15. She was in the hospital of the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, where she was prescribed treatment by a neurologist. But on December 24 she was taken to pre-trial detention center-6. This is where the treatment ended. Employees conduct daily conversations and tell Melnikova that fasting is a sign of suicidal tendencies and anorexia. He is very afraid that he will be sent to a psychiatric hospital or will be force-fed. During the hunger strike, I lost 9 kg. It can be seen that it is very weak.

Anastasia is a makeup artist by profession. To keep herself busy, she makes holiday cards. Instead of paints - eye shadows. Amazingly delicate and beautiful work.

Drawing by Anastasia Melnikova. Photo: (c) Elena MASYUK

Her neighbor Irina Luzina is a restorer by profession. He has been fasting since December 25th. I lost 5 kg. Doesn't go for walks due to weakness. Women are brought food to their cells three times a day. She stays with them for two hours, then they take her back.

In the corner on the nightstand is a large metal tank with the inscription “Drinking Water.” The tank is empty and not working at all - the tap is broken. After a long discussion with the staff and the women in the pre-trial detention center, it turns out that what is meant by “drinking water” is ordinary tap water. Why then is this tank needed? Required according to instructions. It also turns out that this is the only cell where there are no sockets, which means that women cannot boil water for themselves. You need to expect a “kindness session” from employees. The only container in the chamber is a metal mug. And fasting people definitely need to drink at least two liters of fluids a day. So they drink tap water. And next to it is exactly the same camera, but with sockets. Why can’t starving women be transferred there?! Not to mention the fact that clause 42 of the PVR obliges all cells to be equipped with “plug sockets for connecting household appliances.”

The mattresses here are the same as everywhere else - thin and felted. It is impossible to sleep on them. Women put pages from their criminal case under their backs and sleep like that. They say: “There are no bruises, but the bones hurt.” On holidays, women were not even given toilet paper (a roll of toilet paper in a pre-trial detention center is 25 m, which is a quarter of a standard roll). “It’s over, you say? Well, after the holidays you’ll get it!” - the employees explained.

P.S. Head of SIZO-6 - Tatyana Vladimirovna Kirillova

10 August 2012, 15:21

“It is painful to watch what is happening in the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow, where Masha, Nadya and Katya are being tried. The word “trial” is applicable here only in the sense in which it was used by medieval inquisitors. I know this aquarium in courtroom number 7 - it was made specially “for Plato and me” when the ECHR recognized that keeping defendants behind bars is humiliating and violates Convention on Human Rights.
This is such a sophisticated mockery of people who dared to file a complaint with the ECHR: oh, they say that a cage with bars is bad, but what you get is a glass cage, a glass with an embrasure for negotiations with lawyers, in which you have to bend over hard, to say something.
In the summer, in a glass cage you feel like a tropical fish - it’s hot, the air from the air conditioner in the hall does not circulate through the glass. It was difficult for me and Plato to stay in the aquarium all day long. I can’t imagine how the three of the poor girls fit in there... I read about the judge’s refusals to petitions to reduce the time of the court hearing, about refusals to call an ambulance. When you are taken from a pre-trial detention center to court, it happens like this: getting up before the general breakfast, marinating, bent over, in a “glass”, transporting through Moscow traffic jams - at least 2 hours. I was kept in “Matrosskaya Tishina” - this is in the center, and the girls are being taken from Pechatniki - this is twice as far away. They probably only spend about three hours on the road each way.
Two humiliating searches in a pre-trial detention center with stripping naked - before departure and after arrival, two more are carried out by a convoy. In total, at least four searches per day. Then they handcuff me and drag me out of the car straight into the court entrance. You have 10 seconds to turn your head and look at the free world. If you're lucky, you notice someone you know. That’s why it’s so important to be “welcomed”: every smile of support at this moment is worth its weight in gold, helping to shake off 6 hours of bullying already endured from the moment you got up, and enter court, feeling like a human again. In court - or immediately in hall, at a vigorous trot up the stairs, chained by one hand to the guard, or in the “escort” - wait until they “launch”.
And in the courtroom there is that same aquarium where you are required to adequately react to what is happening, answer questions, monitor the testimony of witnesses... And how is it possible to monitor in such conditions? The girls don’t even have a place to put a notebook there - take notes during the entire court hearing “on your knees” if your back is fine... Otherwise, you hope that the lawyers will write it down and that they will then give you time to discuss what is happening with them.
Break, lunch. What's in the dry ration? Dry noodles, dry porridge. Not even the “bum package” – it’s worse. By the time the noodles have time to dissolve in boiling water to perfection, the 20-minute break is over. But if someone suffers from kidney problems, such a diet is almost murder. I stopped eating during the second week of the process: it was better to sit on water all day. The meeting ended, everyone went home. And the defendants are handcuffed and back to the pre-trial detention center, through Moscow traffic jams. They arrive after the general dinner. Showers can only be taken on Saturday. C'est la vie... "Working day" - 20 hours. Lights out. If there is a court hearing tomorrow, they will wake you up in 3 hours and the “procedure” will be repeated. I don’t know how the girls can stand it...
It is not customary to talk about this in court, because it is not asked about it in court. It is not customary to complain about this in a pre-trial detention center, because for a pre-trial detention center this is the usual regime, and even if you complain, they will wake you up an hour earlier and bring you an hour later. But the judge, of course, knows about this regime. Torture? If the restriction in familiarization with the case and the extension of the arrest are common lawlessness, then an 11-hour court hearing without a normal break even for lunch is similar to the execution of an order to complete the judicial investigation, and perhaps the debate until the end of the Olympics, while the world media is busy with other things, and our the shame doesn't sound so loud. The shame of a great country, a country of world-famous humanists and scientists, is rapidly turning into a backward Asian province.
I am very ashamed and offended. And it is not for these girls - youth that the mistakes of radicalism are excusable, but for the state, which disgraces our Russia with its lack of conscience. We were deprived of a fair and independent trial, the opportunity to defend ourselves and protect people from lawlessness. But we can, having recognized those who commit arbitrariness for money and privileges - on the street, in a store, in a theater - politely but clearly explain to them and those around them who they are in our eyes, why we don’t respect them, why we don’t want to help they are in no way, and on the contrary, we will oppose them in every detail. This way we can maintain self-respect. I urge all thinking, educated and simply good and kind people to send words of hope to the girls. Your support – the support of every person – is very important now for those who, by the will of evil forces, find themselves in captivity!”