What do Russian prisons look like? Who is sent to prison in Russia?
How is punishment allocated and administered? This pioneering book
aims to answer these and other questions by embarking on a journey
that begins by exploring how the prisons have survived the collapse
of the USSR, and ends with a discussion of global penal politics.
It is the first book to have been written in English on penal
practices in the contemporary Russian prison system. Surviving
Russian Prisons focuses in particular on the reality of work and
labour within Russian prisons, exploring its changing function.
From being for much of the twentieth century a major activity as
well as an ideological justification for prison regimes, its main
function now has been to enable prisoners to survive through
participating in a barter economy. In exploring the microworlds of
the Russian prison this book at the same time presents new evidence
and offers fresh insight into how prisons are governed in societies
undergoing turbulent social and political transformation; it
explores how current practices in relation to prisoners' work
comply with international regulations designed to promote humane
containment and positive custody; and debates the nature of
knowledge on penal discourse in transitional states.
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