Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-40211260-20191230080854/@comment-27021824-20200105111352

It's Vologodskiy Pyatak.

"Each prisoner is kept in a small two-man cell for 22.5 hours a day, every day. For an hour and a half they stand, or pace like predatory animals, in a small cage outside.", "There are no lavatories, no proper washing facilities and you spend your whole life in a cell.", and, longest of all: "There is no way anyone can spend 25 years in a place like this without being psychologically destroyed."

"There are only two ways into and out of Petak: by foot along two rickety wooden bridges, or by prison boat. Armed guards stand at watch towers on each corner of the building. German shepherds are kept in a special pound"

Vasily Smirnoff, the head guard, said: "There are prisons in Russia where the prisoners are in control, where even the governor has to consult with the head criminal before he can do anything, but not here. Here we're the bosses.

"But nobody's ever escaped. If they dig they hit water. If they try to swim the guards will shoot them."

"For the first 10 years of a man's sentence he is allowed two visits a year, of two hours each. After that he can have two long visits and two short visits. But by the time a decade has passed most men have lost contact with their families, who often live many days' travel away. Parcels are allowed twice a year."

"Half the prisoners have tuberculosis, and at least two are clinically insane. When men die, their bodies are taken to a small graveyard nearby and buried in the presence of one or two of the guards. No prisoners can attend."

"Misbehaving prisoners are sent to punishment cells to be locked in a small, dark room with only a metal bucket and a fold-down bed for 15 days. No books are allowed. In the daytime the bed is stowed and they must stand, or sit on a tiny wooden perch a few inches wide."

"The pens are very small and only the most determined stay in good physical condition." - From Wikipedia