Interviews with female prisoners in WA show many struggled with violence, drugs, alcohol, poverty and homelessness from an ...

Anna Kondratenko was just a little short of 40, Tamara Karawai was 45 - young beautiful women who could have survived if not ...

A word exists for a prison that “functions outside a judicial ... “a de facto extralegal policy of imprisonment in a foreign gulag for enemies of the regime.” At that point, a detainee ...

Just like in the Gulag. A camp slang word from Stalin's era has returned. When we spoke with Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk after her release about the women still held in the Zarechcha prison colony, she ...

For seven years, the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women, a high-security prison facility in Chino, has been abusing his patients, according to a civil lawsuit ...

A special chapter is devoted to the work in the camp morgues: inexplicably, despite a blatant disrespect for the dead, who were often buried unclothed and in mass graves, the gulag administration ...

“No one can survive 25 years in a Russian gulag, especially after the two poisonings I’ve been through,” he said. “It was a death sentence.” Talking about the prisoner swap – which ...

This is the emotional moment Ukrainian women who were prisoners of war (PoW) burst into tears as they are released from Russian captivity yesterday. 49 people were released from each side ...

Women prisoners find a moment to rest in their shack in the Vorkutlag. Due to Stalin's purges, numerous camps struggled to handle the large influx of inmates. The Vorkuta Gulag system consisted of ...

When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago ... he took her to prison in the Lubyanka (secret-police headquarters). One has to give the Organs their due: in an age when public speeches, the ...

Jews, women and members of ethnic minorities were all ... Healey’s account is structured around the biographies of both free professionals and prisoners. The free professionals reached Gulag by ...