The zone lives by “concepts,” and, according to them, certain types of crimes are unacceptable. In particular, these include rape and pedophilia.
The life of those convicted under these articles in colonies is very difficult. They are daily forced to endure bullying and torture from fellow inmates who use the same methods of violence against them that they themselves previously used against their victims.
What they do in prison with rapists and pedophiles, and whether there is salvation for them from this hell - we’ll talk further.
Rapists and pedophiles: punishment under the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation
According to current legislation, such crimes are classified as criminal acts committed against sexual freedom and integrity.
Art. 131 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is called “Rape” and provides for liability for sexual contact with an adult partner, against his will, in the form of imprisonment for 3-6 years.
Rape of a minor child is punishable by 15 years in prison, and of a minor child by 20 years in prison.
When rape is an independent type of crime, it leaves an indelible mark on the psyche of a child or adult victim. But, more often than not, episodes of violence are associated with other types of crimes.
Most often, this is murder. Trying to hide evidence, criminals kill their victims after rape.
As soon as the verdict in the rapist's case comes into force, they begin to prepare for the stage. What awaits them at the end of this journey, when their cellmates learn the specifics of the act they committed, they certainly have no idea.
In the spotlight
So why don't they like rapists in prison? In the world of thieves' laws, violence has always been recognized as an dishonest thing.
Theft and murder are something completely different. They are committed exclusively in cold blood based on certain motives.
And using special harshness towards one’s victim, committing violence against a defenseless person is already a mental deviation. That is why other prisoners are wary of such new arrivals and administer their own justice to them.
Until a verdict is passed in cases of violence and pedophilia, such defendants are not touched in the pre-trial detention center.
In the colonies, no one likes to make mistakes, and no one is in a hurry to begin humiliating a person who may not be guilty at all. Therefore, while the trial is ongoing, the rapist defendant has nothing to fear.
There are cases when cellmates or observers get acquainted with the verdict of a newcomer and do not believe the information contained in it. But this happens extremely rarely. Usually the facts of violence are unconditionally proven, and the guilt of the defendant becomes undeniable.
As soon as the verdict in the case of violence comes into force, the convict will begin to be “lowered” . This can happen even in a pre-trial detention center if he does not have time to be transferred.
But even if he manages to get into the last departing carriage of the train along the stage, the same thing will await him already in the colony. He still won’t be able to hide his article.
Sometimes it happens
The above-mentioned suits are available in all zones and prisons. However, some places of detention have their own specific, so-called intermediate castes.
There are especially many such castes in the zone where juvenile criminals are kept. On the “youngster”, in addition to the castes already indicated, there are such suits as:
- “forshmaki”, which includes prisoners who have committed some minor offense in the zone due to ignorance of the rules and norms of behavior;
- “devils” - that is, those prisoners who were caught stealing from their cellmates;
- “shnyri” who act as servants;
- “laundresses”, “oil presses”, “shortages” and others.
In some adult zones, unique podcasts are common. For example, “thieves”, which includes prisoners who form the “retinue” of the “thieves” (while they themselves are not criminals). Or the “scoundrels” caste, which includes “thieves” prisoners who have committed some disgusting act.
How are rapists treated in prison?
To put it mildly, rapists are not favored in prison. They automatically join the ranks of the lowest caste – the “degraded”.
The life of members of this caste is very different from the life of other convicts. How are such new arrivals released into the colonies?
The main features of the existence of the “omitted” look like this:
- They do the most unpleasant work: they clean toilets, take out buckets, work as stokers;
- They have their own special utensils for eating and places for washing;
- It is forbidden to touch them and sit next to someone from a lower caste;
- They sleep in a special “rooster corner”;
- They are used for various sexual contacts.
Rapists and pedophiles have no rights in the zone . They always owe or are obliged to do something.
When a representative of another caste walks along a cell or corridor, those who are lowered are obliged to give way to him and press against the wall.
How are rapists punished in prison?
Those convicted under the article “Rape” are subject to sexual slavery in the zone. They will regularly play the role of lovers or prostitutes for all those who wish to do so.
In order for the rapist to be officially classified as a caste of the “lowered”, his initiation is necessary.
We will explain below what exactly happens during this procedure.
Usually, initiation into this caste of rapists takes place in a special way. The whole camera gathers to witness this dedication with their own eyes.
Usually, as a “lowering”, oral or anal contact with such a convict is carried out. Sometimes it is replaced by simply actions of a sexual nature without the actual sexual contact, for example, holding a penis across the face or something like that.
How else are those who raped people in the wild punished? One of the main rules of contact with the “lowered”: do not eject biological masses after sexual contact anywhere other than the “lowered” one.
That is, it is prohibited to release sperm in any way in the chamber itself. This is considered a gross violation of order.
The one who has been “let down” after a sexual relationship must definitely pay back. Cigarettes, condensed milk, and candy are used as payment for his work.
Sometimes the “lowered” become lovers of only one partner. To do this, most often, they choose a more influential prisoner who protects them from other prisoners.
According to prison laws, no one else can offer sexual contact to someone who is already taken.
Such rapists do well. They, as a rule, stop working altogether, devoting themselves only to satisfying the sexual desires of their “master.”
In the zone, those “omitted” receive female names.
In the wild, such formerly “dismissed” people often lead ordinary lives, start families and give birth to children. But the second time they enter the zone, their past is always revealed with one hundred percent probability.
How are pedophiles treated in prison?
Pedophiles in the zone are considered even more humiliating individuals than ordinary rapists.
It is not clear why people in prison do not like child rapists. Most likely, the point is that each of the convicts has his own child, and sacredly honors his freedom and inviolability. None of them would want such a mentally unstable person to take advantage of their child.
But in fact, what do they do with pedophiles in the zone, what do they do with them in the pre-trial detention center? Pedophiles have a slightly different life in prison.
This is due to the fact that they receive a more severe punishment than those convicted of ordinary adult rape. So, let's look at how pedophiles live in the zone.
Pedophiles do not live in general barracks; they serve their sentences in small cells.
In fact, for 2022, the task of the Federal Penitentiary Service is to protect pedophiles as much as possible from contact with other convicts. This is clear, because for them one such contact can result in death.
If the beholder or another convicted pedophile doesn't like something, he can be beaten or even killed. The excess deaths in the zone attract increased attention to the conditions of convicts' detention. The leadership of the colonies does not need this.
So, the life of a pedophile includes the following features:
- Pedophiles do not work in heavy production; they are provided with light work regimes;
- One or two neighbors in a pedophile’s small cell are always the quietest and most non-conflicting guys;
- For money, a pedophile can not only pay off the eternal harassment of convicts, but also buy a smartphone, with which he will continue to write letters with sexual overtones to little girls and boys.
Some of them are even serving life sentences for child abuse. As a rule, this occurs when the death of a child occurs.
In prisons for life, pedophiles are kept in solitary confinement. No one poses a danger to them there.
However, in a pre-trial detention center, pedophiles can get it from their cellmates. But again, the prisoners will begin to take action only after the pedophile’s guilt has been proven.
If the rapist himself pleads guilty, then the beginning of the abuse does not even require the entry into force of the sentence.
Rapists and pedophiles are unhealthy people, their social danger reaches prohibitive levels . Life is hard for them both in the zone and in the wild.
In prison, rapists have to serve in sexual slavery; in the wild, they are hated for the rest of their lives.
On top of everything else, unfortunately, these people do not feel repentant, and again continue to hatch plans in their heads to molest children or rape women.
Life under supervision and seven years for robbery. Second term
“After my release, I was under supervision for some time. This probably prevented me from immediately throwing myself into the pool headlong. After eight in the evening I was supposed to be at home, in a normal sober state. And this really held me back, because the local police officer checked regularly. In general, I led an almost normal life, practically without alcohol and drugs, I just didn’t work, I was on my parents’ neck. Although I tried to work somewhere, but not regularly. I didn’t have a specialty, and finding a job in those days was very difficult, especially with a zone behind me.
When the supervision was lifted, I realized that, in fact, I didn’t want to work. Go to the factory in shifts or from eight to five? Eww! I wanted easy money. And everything started again. Theft, fraud. And it ended with a particularly serious charge - “robbery”. I took a very large sum of money from a man, and before that I showed off a lot. So at the age of 22 I received seven years of strict regime...
He actually served four years and was released under an amnesty. And, probably, it was then, in the strict zone, that my eyes began to open little by little - both to the romance of thieves, and to life’s priorities, and to what my life could become.
Alexander admits that it was not on his own that he became so smart. It was there, under strict regime, that he met people who were much older and more experienced than him, who spent many years behind bars, but who did not want such a fate for him, a very young guy. It was their authority, their words that touched Sasha’s heartstrings, and for the first time he began to want something else: a normal family, children and a quiet life. However, Sasha had three more terms ahead. And only after serving five times did he understand that in order to turn the situation around, you need to not just want it, but make an effort, fight and swim out.
“After my release, I zealously got down to business. I started to learn something, to master a profession in construction, for example. I went to Russia to work. But everything was so unstable. Here they deceived me, here they promised to pay a lot, but they paid half as much. You jump from one job to another... In general, everything that doesn’t fit well began to stick to my hands again. And every time you think: “Oh, it will pass, they won’t catch it...”.
There was occasional alcohol and drugs. But I guess I was lucky. I didn’t fall into these addictions, like into a pool. The body is probably stable. I didn’t have a situation where I was injecting or drinking for weeks. But on the other hand, I loved cool clothes, cool pubs and going out for a long walk. And drugs and alcohol were just a bonus, an accompanying product to this beautiful life.
“Three years later I sat down again. For theft of non-ferrous metal from an enterprise. They gave me this, little by little, for only a year and a half. And here I am again in my native zone...
This third time it was really hard for me to sit. I didn’t want to sit anymore, because I finally realized that there was nothing good in prison. This time I didn’t have any amnesties; I had to serve my sentence “from bell to bell.”
