Transfer for a convict: What can be transferred to prisoners + contents of parcels and parcels

Modern hospitals are quite safe and generally try to help the sick. Large hospitals separate patients by age and severity of condition. In general, in the department of neuroses, for the most part, there are adequate ordinary people. In the acute department there can be tough things.

They stay in the hospital from a week to two months (very rarely longer). If you are hospitalized at your own request, you can be discharged at any time! Read the law on psychiatric care in Russia.

About medications. We can talk about medications for a long time, I’ll write in detail sometime, but briefly: almost all antidepressants and tranquilizers cause addiction, but it’s quite possible to get off them! Medicines do not cure anxiety, or depression, or delirium, they relieve an acute condition and help you come to your senses so that you can figure out with a more or less fresh mind how you will continue to save yourself (spoiler: psychotherapy). Patients with severe diagnoses often take medications throughout their lives (schizophrenia, MDP, resistant depression). Patients with less dire diagnoses take antidepressants the longest (from three months, usually a year). Medicines sometimes work right away (lucky ones), usually they are selected, changed, and the dose is adjusted - this is very individual.

In the first week in the hospital, you will most likely be pumped full of antipsychotic drugs and you will sleep a lot, this is useful, the brain reboots and rests. Closer to discharge, your dose will be reduced and many will come out quite cheerful!

I think that being treated in a hospital is a good option:

There is an opportunity to sleep as long as you like.
There is no need to worry about daily matters.
Medicines are selected by observing the dynamics every day, this is convenient for the doctor and you.
You don’t need to buy different drugs and waste money on unsuitable ones in the end; after discharge, buy only what is definitely suitable.
You will be examined by related specialists and will take blood and urine tests.
A mental hospital is an existential place, you will think about life in a new way.
It is possible to visit a psychotherapist for free.

I'll name the downsides:

Almost always there are really bad living conditions: toilets have no doors and people smoke in them, the food is not tasty, leaving the territory is limited (you need permission to leave from a doctor), sharp objects and razors are strictly prohibited in the acute department, in the neurosis department they are issued upon request. medical post.
Hospitalism is an addiction to doctors and the hospital regime; patients may begin to fear being left without the supervision of doctors.
Stigmatization is when a label is attached that a person who has been treated by a psychiatrist, much less spent time in a hospital, is a psycho, abnormal, not like that. Often the patient himself begins to consider himself as such - this is self-stigmatization.

Notable Features:

There are no forks and knives in the dining room, so as not to provoke intrusiveness or aggressive actions.
All doors (except the doors to the wards) are opened with a special key, which only the staff has.
Doctors make rounds once a week: a group of doctors walks through the wards and talks with each patient, this is a whole event for patients and nurses.
You can contact your doctor at any time if you find one. Some doctors even give you their phone number and you can chat with them on WhatsApp about your symptoms.
Medicines are taken on time, lining up, like in the movies.
You can go for walks with the doctor’s permission, you can see relatives, you can use telephones (but not in all departments).

About the worst:

Patients are not turned into zombies; large doses of drugs simply suppress activity and attention, but with decreasing dosages, activity returns.
Psychotropic medications are not drugs, although they can cause addiction, like many other medications (blood pressure reducers, for example). Many patients have withdrawal syndrome, but it can be tolerated and the condition returns to normal.
Some patients who are particularly resistant to drugs are given electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), where a current is sent to the brain. But it is not painful (anesthesia) and not dangerous, certainly not more dangerous than suicide from depression. I know people who have had these procedures and they are fine!
No one will report to your work that you were treated in a mental hospital or a psychiatric hospital, unless the entry on the sick leave sheet gives you away.

How things work in a psychiatric hospital

— I am in a psychiatric hospital with depression. There are many people here with the same diagnosis. There is a huge aquarium in the corridor. The girl from the next room buried her face in him, was silent for a long time and said: “Fish... ******** [good] for you, fish,” - this is how Tatyana begins her story.

This tweet received more than 11 thousand likes and reposts and inspired the girl to create a whole thread about treatment in a psychiatric hospital - in the department of nervous disorders.

The first stereotype that Tatyana debunks concerns safety. No violent patients or straitjackets like in the movies.

- It's safe here. Everyone on my ward suffers from depression and anxiety. All sad, but not dangerous. There was only one case in a month when a dude was kicked out of the men's ward for masturbating on his neighbors. Apparently, he was jealous of the success of their therapy,” writes Tatyana.

The second stereotype is that treatment for depression in a clinic necessarily costs a fortune. Actually this is not true. The state pays for a month of hospital stay.

— I am at the institute named after. Bekhterev in St. Petersburg. The first visit to a psychotherapist is free of charge. If he says that you need to go to bed, you can choose paid hospitalization or budget. I'm on a budget. The state pays for a month of stay. While you are in the hospital, everything is free. Further visits to the doctor are paid, says Tatyana

But the food, as in many Russian hospitals, is very bad. But it's free.

“The food here is simply terrible.” It's impossible to eat. Make some friends before you come here. So that someone would bring normal food,” writes Tanya.

The third stereotype is that you cannot use technology and leave the territory. Actually this is not true. Tatyana emphasizes that the conditions of hospitalization depend on the diagnosis.

— They don’t take away equipment here. Visits are allowed every day. You are not put in a straitjacket. You are free to leave the area. We have depression, not schizophrenia. We want to kill ourselves, not others. Everyone understands that if you take away our phones, we will do it even faster,” Tatyana writes. “It’s quiet, calm and unbearably boring here.” So before you go to bed, subscribe to Netflix and load up on books. Then you will say thank you.

But the place where the hospital is located really does not contribute much to recovery.

— It’s very gloomy on the hospital grounds. Bare trees, gray buildings with bars, a huge pile of crows. Through their croaking one can hear: “You are a nonentity.” Force yourself to get out into the city at least once a week,” the girl writes.

How to send a parcel, delivery, parcel post, money transfer to a convicted person?

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How to send a parcel, delivery, parcel post, money transfer to a convicted person?

Relatives of the convicted person are allowed to send parcels, packages, parcels to the correctional facility.
Parcels, packages, parcels can be sent to convicted women and persons held in the VK without any limitation on the number. The number of parcels, transfers and parcels for convicted men depends on the type of correctional facility and the conditions in which they are serving their sentence. The penitentiary establishment establishes: ordinary, simplified, and strict conditions for serving the sentence.

If your relative is in a general regime prison, then under normal conditions he can receive 6 parcels or packages and 6 parcels during the year. In light conditions - 12 parcels or packages, 12 parcels. Under strict conditions - 3 parcels or packages and 3 parcels.

If your relative is serving a sentence in a high-security prison, then under normal conditions he can receive 4 parcels or parcels and 4 parcels during the year. In light conditions - 6 parcels or packages and 6 parcels. In strict conditions - 2 parcels or transfers and 2 parcels.

If your relative is serving a sentence in a special regime penal colony, then under normal conditions he can receive 3 parcels or packages and 3 parcels within a year. In light conditions - 4 parcels or packages and 4 parcels. In strict conditions - 1 parcel or transfer and 1 parcel.

If your relative is in a general regime prison, then he can receive 2 parcels or parcels and 2 parcels during the year.

In a maximum security prison, a convict can only count on 1 parcel and 1 parcel per year.

The convicted person can receive the first parcel, delivery and parcel immediately upon arrival at the correctional facility.

A certain amount of time must pass between the previous and subsequent parcels, transmission and parcel. This time is equal to the number obtained by dividing 12 months by the total number of parcels, transfers, parcels due to the convicted person per year.

The weight of one parcel or parcel is limited by the postal rules in force in the country. So, currently the maximum weight of a parcel is 20 kg, parcels - 2 kg. The weight of the package should accordingly not exceed the maximum permissible weight of the package, i.e. 20 kg.

When collecting a parcel, parcel or parcel, know that there are food products, things and objects that convicts are prohibited from having with them, receiving in parcels, parcels, or purchasing. This:

• all types of weapons, ammunition, explosive, poisonous, flammable and radioactive substances, lighters;

• money, valuables, securities, currency of foreign countries;

• optical instruments;

• wrist and pocket watches (in prisons);

• food products that require heat treatment (except for tea and coffee, milk powder, instant food concentrates that do not require boiling or cooking);

• home canning products, yeast;

• all types of alcoholic drinks, beer;

• perfume, cologne and other alcohol-based products;

• narcotic drugs, psychotropic toxic and potent substances, and without medical indications and medicinal substances, medical supplies;

• electronic computers, typewriters, duplicating machines and other office equipment;

• knives, straight razors, safety razor blades, piercing and cutting objects, structurally similar to bladed weapons;

• axes, hammers and other tools;

• playing cards;

• cameras, photographic materials, chemicals, film cameras, video and audio equipment (except for television receivers, radio receivers), communications equipment and components for them that ensure operation;

• any documents (except for documents of the established form, identifying the convicted person, copies of sentences and court rulings, responses based on the results of consideration of proposals, applications, petitions and complaints, receipts for money, things, valuables handed over for storage);

• compasses, literature on topography, martial arts, service dog breeding, weapons design;

• military and other uniforms, accessories;

• clothing, hats and shoes (except for slippers, tracksuits and sports shoes) of unidentified samples;

• colored pencils, felt-tip pens, markers, ink, ink, ballpoint and gel pens (except for blue and black), paints, copy paper;

• pornographic materials, objects;

• electrical household appliances (except for electric shavers, factory-made household electric boilers).

Instead of the required parcels, transfers, parcels, relatives have the opportunity to purchase food and basic necessities through the store, which is located in every correctional facility, and hand them over to the convict.

Currently, in some correctional institutions, relatives of convicts can purchase goods through online stores. Relatives can choose and pay for the purchase, which will be delivered to the convicted person at the correctional facility. The procedure for using the online store can be obtained from the administration of the correctional facility where the convicted person is serving his sentence.

Relatives of the convicted person have the right to send money transfers, which are credited to the personal account of the convicted person.

(Articles 90, 91, 121, 123, 125, 131 of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation; sections XI, XII, XVI of the Rules of the Penitentiary Authority; Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated April 15, 2005 No. 221 “On approval of the Rules for the provision of postal services”).

How is treatment and therapy carried out?

Many people do not understand what therapy looks like in a public clinic. Firstly, this is working with a psychotherapist.

- In a hospital, surrounded by depressed people - how will this help? Here you work with a psychotherapist every two days. The tablets are free here. You don’t have to look for money, which is also very reassuring. It’s better to treat yourself under the supervision of doctors while surrounded by sad people than to get drunk surrounded by happy people,” says the girl.

Secondly, this is drug treatment.

— Pills do not destroy your personality. During depression, you don’t even have the strength to get out of bed, let alone go to therapy. Pills don't cure depression. Pills are needed to artificially support a person. To have strength for therapy. It's like a depressive Theraflu. It simply relieves symptoms,” says Tanya.

At the same time, serious work is being done inside a person; defeating depression is not so easy.

— The brain resists therapy. For him, stopping suffering after years is a way out of his usual comfort zone. You will hate the psychologist and everything around you. The brain will convince you: “Brothers, we don’t need this. Let's get out of here, they won't help you. It's soft here at the bottom. Brother-a-a-n.” This relationship is long lasting. You need to know this and adjust yourself. Therapy is work. It will take years. Every day is a struggle. Constant struggle. It is very difficult not to give up. But this life is worth it,” the girl shares.

The girl admits that therapy has changed many of her attitudes.

— When delving into yourself, be prepared to lose yourself. This is scary. Your world will turn upside down. For example, I realized that all my life love = suffering. I fell in love with those who offended me. And for me, suffering and self-sacrifice = comfort. I realized with horror that I knew nothing about happiness or love. Oddly enough, postulates that contradict themselves coexist in the brain. You should only delve into this together with your doctor. You’ll be blown away by your ambivalence,” Tanya shares.

The girl urges anyone who suspects depression to be thoroughly examined.

— Take all the tests, examine your body. Nothing fuels depression like illness.

And if therapy does not help, then you need to be more careful in choosing a doctor.

— Not all doctors are professionals. First of all, they are people. You may not be able to communicate with them. If you initially don’t have the slightest sympathy for the doctor, or after a long time you realize that nothing is changing at all, change the doctor, Tanya advises.

The girl advises not to deny your illness, but to find help and support as quickly as possible.

- Don't be afraid to talk about your feelings. You pay money to be listened to. Don't deny your condition. Don't listen to your friends. Denying the existence of depression is like denying HIV. People are dying because of her. If you think you have it, immediately go to a psychotherapist. Don't be afraid to go to the doctor! I am alive now only thanks to the timely intervention of doctors. Thank you,” the girl sums up.

Conditions for receiving parcels in pre-trial detention centers and correctional colonies

Men and women held in pre-trial detention centers are allowed to send parcels or packages with a total weight of up to 30 kg. per month. In this case, the monthly permissible weight can be divided into several transfers or parcels but in total no more than 30 kg. per month.

In correctional colonies, a strict number of deliveries or parcels is allowed in a certain period of time, depending on the type of correctional institution and the conditions of detention of the convicted person in the institution, while the total weight of one transfer or parcel should not exceed 20 kg, dividing this weight into several deliveries or parcels unacceptable, i.e. if you order a parcel weighing 5 kg, then the next parcel will be given to the convicted person after a certain period of time, namely:

To a convict in a general regime colony:

under light conditions of detention, it is allowed to receive 12 parcels or parcels per year, i.e. one parcel once a month
under normal conditions of detention, it is allowed to receive 6 parcels or parcels per year, i.e. one parcel every two months
under strict conditions of detention, it is allowed to receive 3 parcels or parcels per year, i.e. one parcel every four months

To a convict in a maximum security colony:

under light conditions of detention, it is allowed to receive 6 parcels or parcels per year, i.e. one parcel every two months
under normal conditions of detention, it is allowed to receive 4 parcels or parcels per year, i.e. one parcel every three months
under strict conditions of detention, it is allowed to receive 2 parcels or transfers per year, i.e. one parcel every six months

To a prisoner in a special regime colony:

under light conditions of detention, it is allowed to receive 4 parcels or parcels per year, i.e. one parcel every three months
under normal conditions of detention, it is allowed to receive 4 parcels or parcels per year, i.e. one parcel every three months
under strict conditions of detention, it is allowed to receive 1 parcel or transfer per year, i.e. one parcel every 12 months

When ordering a transfer or parcel, check with the person to whom the transfer or parcel is addressed for the following information:

When placing an order, correctly indicate the number of the colony in which the convicted person is being held, the full name of the convicted person, and year of birth.
When the previous parcel or transfer was received, because upon receipt of a delivery, the deadline for receiving a new delivery must approach (example: i.e. a convicted person held under normal conditions in a maximum security colony is entitled to 4 parcels or parcels per year, one parcel every three months, if the convict received a parcel or parcel on May 5, then The next deadline for receiving a parcel or transfer is in three months, i.e. August 5).
If the next deadline for receiving the Transfer or Parcel has not arrived but you have placed an Order, then this Order will be sent to you by the administration of the institution through the Postal Service and at your expense.

Mental hospital from the inside

Hello boys and girls. Let's talk about mental hospitals. What do we know about them? There is a lot of information, but it is wildly distorted, passing through the prism of stereotypes existing in society. There are many stereotypes, and their sources are different - from snatches of other people's conversations to Hollywood films. I decided to try to dispel some of them, fortunately I know the situation from the inside - now I am a psychiatrist, and in my student years I worked part-time in a mental hospital as an orderly and then as a nurse. So aware on different levels.

People end up in a mental hospital forever

This is partly true, now I will explain why. Chronic patients (experienced schizophrenics, organic patients) can go to bed ten times a year, and often go to bed of their own free will. Patients end up in the same department each time (according to their registration), they have a familiar atmosphere there, even friends, the medical staff knows them, and in general, they feel calmer there than in society. Therefore, it turns out that they spend almost their entire lives in a mental hospital. In general, doctors have hospitalization periods, a plan for those treated for the month, etc. It is not practical to keep a patient for longer than the prescribed period, and it is not necessary - paperwork begins. If you want to treat for more than a month, convene a commission, have your boss sign it, etc. From experience, I will say that more than a month is usually not required - the patient can continue treatment on an outpatient basis. So on average it’s about a month and they’re discharged; doctors don’t need extra hemorrhoids

Anyone can end up in a mental hospital

There are subtleties. For example, your neighbor doesn't like you. He calls an ambulance and says that you are inadequate, you throw yourself at people, you talk to yourself. In most cases, the ambulance will not pick you up, because you will behave adequately with them. But if he is very convincing, and even asks his friends to fit in, and the emergency doctor is suggestible and inexperienced, he might give you a ride. The next stage is the admissions department. Everything is simple here - you refuse hospitalization and that’s it. Yes, the emergency department doctor can involuntarily hospitalize you for a short time, but to do this you must pose a danger to yourself or others. If you can’t imagine, then you refuse and go home to hang a cradle for your neighbor. The reception doctor will only be happy - there will be less paperwork without you. If there is a zombie sitting in the emergency department, taking everyone around him at their word and not seeing beyond his own nose, while being dumb as a plug, then there is a possibility that, contrary to common sense, you will still be hospitalized. Next is the department. There are also doctors in the department. You write a statement and check out. There are no questions here. Another thing is that the doctor cannot discharge you without a diagnosis - the rules are as follows. But in such a case (if the doctor sees that there is a healthy person in front of him and he got here by mistake), there are a lot of soft diagnoses (accentuation of personality traits, neurasthenia, etc.) that will not affect his subsequent life. Thus, anyone can fall into a fool, but for this to happen, so many unlikely circumstances must coincide that such cases become exclusively a theory. Although this happens, of course.

A mental hospital is a scary place where people are turned into vegetables/zombies/controllable

Not true. Thanks to the cinema for this stereotype. I won’t say that a mental hospital is a joyful place with fairies and pink ponies, it’s a depressing place. But this is first and foremost a hospital. Standard departments - corridor and wards. Yes, the wards often have no doors, but these are ordinary wards with beds and bedside tables. The number of chambers varies, but there is always an observation chamber (sometimes two). This is where the first thing the guys in an exacerbation go (in fact, the most mentally ill ward). This room is the farthest from the exit; there will be barred windows and a sanitary post at the exit. There are no bedside tables - only beds. The beds are iron, armored, with mattresses covered with oilcloth (it’s clear why). It will come as a surprise to many, but there are no straitjackets in the madhouses for a long time. And even more so in rooms with soft walls. There are harnesses (bundles, belts - they are called differently in each locality), very strong tourniquets, which actually fix the especially violent to this very iron bed. Each orderly knits in his own way; there is no universal technique. Soft fixation (that's what it's called) occurs only with the approval of a doctor (this is shown in the documentation - it is prescribed as a medicine). When the severity of psychosis subsides, the patient is transferred to any other ward, and a fresh patient is put in his place. In closed psychiatric wards, patients cannot freely leave the ward (there are only rare exceptions), the guys from the observation room can only walk to the toilet and back (most often this is a couple of meters). So, apart from the observation room, everyone is very calm - playing cards, watching TV, in short, just like in a regular hospital.

How many parcels, parcels and small packages can be sent to a convicted person per year?

Those sentenced to imprisonment are allowed to receive parcels, parcels, parcels and small packages in the following quantities:

Persons sentenced to imprisonment in a correctional colony

under general conditions

four parcels or parcels and two parcels or two small packages during the year (those transferred to improved conditions of detention are allowed to additionally receive two parcels or parcels and three parcels or two small packets during the year;

under enhanced regime conditions

three parcels or parcels and two parcels or two small packages during the year (those transferred to improved conditions of detention are allowed to additionally receive two parcels or parcels and three parcels or two small parcels during the year);

under strict security conditions

two parcels or parcels and two parcels or two small packages during the year (those transferred to improved conditions of detention are allowed to additionally receive one parcel or parcel and two parcels or two small parcels during the year);

under special regime conditions

one parcel or parcel and two parcels or two small packages during the year (those transferred to improved conditions of detention are allowed to additionally receive one parcel or parcel and two parcels or two small parcels during the year);

in settlement conditions

parcels, transfers, parcels and small packages without restrictions.

Convicts serving a sentence of imprisonment in the VK have the right to receive six parcels or parcels and two parcels or two small packages during the year (those transferred to improved conditions of detention are allowed to receive an additional two parcels or parcels during the year).

Convicts serving sentences in prison

in general mode:

one parcel or transfer and two parcels or two small packages during the year;

in strict mode:

one parcel post or one small package per year.

Convicted pregnant women, nursing mothers, sick and disabled people of groups I and II may be allowed to receive additional parcels, packages, parcels and small packages in accordance with the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

Convicts have the right to send parcels, parcels and small packages to close relatives, and with the permission of the administration of the correctional facility - to other persons.

The procedure for accepting, receiving, sending parcels, parcels and small packages, receiving parcels, inspecting them, as well as the list of items and things permitted to be received, stored, sent by convicts are determined by the TAP of the correctional institution.

Convicts serving sentences in correctional colonies and penal colonies, as well as convicts left in pre-trial detention centers and prisons to perform household maintenance work, are allowed, instead of receiving the required parcel or transfer, to purchase food and essential items for a month in the amount of up to five basic units at the expense of funds available in their personal accounts. This right does not apply to convicts who are obliged to reimburse expenses spent by the state on the maintenance of children who are on state support, to convicts who have not compensated for the damage caused by a crime, as well as to convicts found to be maliciously violating the established procedure for serving a sentence.

Parcels and parcels received by convicts held under strict regime in prison, in a cell-type room of a penal colony for persons serving a sentence of imprisonment for the first time, a penal colony for persons who have previously served a sentence of imprisonment, as well as by convicts held in a cell-type room such as disciplinary action and solitary confinement in special regime penal cells are not accepted.

The list and number of things and objects that convicts are allowed to have with them are established by the Regional Rules of the Correctional Institution. Convicts are not allowed to keep money, securities and other valuables, as well as items not listed in the list.

Teaching is light

Orderlies, according to the Unified Qualification Handbook approved by the Ministry of Health and Social Development, can perform a variety of jobs: from cleaning the premises to bathing seriously ill patients. Therefore, they are often confused either with cleaners or with nurses. But unlike the former, orderlies are included in the group of junior medical personnel. This allows them to qualify for a reduced work week and additional vacations on an equal basis with other medical staff. At the same time, unlike nurses, orderlies bear significantly less responsibility for their work and may not have knowledge in medicine. Formally, to enter this position, only secondary general education is sufficient.

The Russian Ministry of Education and Science proposed to change the situation and presented a draft order according to which orderlies would have to receive vocational education. The duration of training would be determined by the specific program. But neither the program nor the order ever saw the light of day, so for now employers are figuring out the selection criteria on their own. Previously, for convenience, they divided the vacancy into several components. For example, a cleaning aide and a patient care aide. Now the need for them is gradually disappearing. Firstly, because hospitals prefer to use cleaning companies. Secondly, because the rate is divided among other employees. For example, special patient transportation companies have now taken up the problem of transporting patients. They are on duty for days in different departments of the medical institution. Patient care was given to nurses.

Formally, it is impossible to say that this caused the workload on staff to exceed the norm. If there is a sufficient number of personnel, employees will simply begin to perform the full list of duties that are prescribed in the Unified Qualification Handbook approved by the Ministry of Health and Social Development. Most of the responsibilities of orderlies, according to this document, overlap with the tasks of other employees or even duplicate them.

For example, the housewife provides the unit with the necessary household equipment, detergents, and linen for the sick. Nurse - receives equipment and linen from her, “ensures their proper storage and use.” The younger nursing sister changes the bed linen and underwear of patients, transports seriously ill patients, and keeps the room clean. Nurse - cleans bedside tables after each meal, accompanies patients to offices, helps them wash, cleans rooms and baths. And yet, in many hospitals where patients need constant care and attention, for example, psychoneurological ones, they are not yet ready to give up orderlies. Who gets into these positions?

MENTAL HOSPITAL DOCTORS

When orderlies become featured in the news, most often they talk about beatings, bullying, and violations of the rights of patients. Workers are fired and put on trial, but the abuses continue. Izvestia found out why this is happening and what is included in the official duties of orderlies.

Teaching is light

Right to callThe Ministry of Labor will figure out whether it is possible to prohibit residents of mental institutions from talking on the phone and receiving visitors

Photo: Depositphotos The work of doctors will be standardized by 2019. The proposed rules will be advisory in nature.

Rules for sending parcels to prison

The list of approved products for prison transfer is established for all types of correctional facilities at the federal level. However, this does not prevent the creation of special rules for receiving transmissions in each of them.

Therefore, before going on a date or before preparing a parcel for shipment, it is better to find out in advance what rules are established in your colony.

All parcels undergo a thorough inspection by correctional officers.

In some colonies, even when checking the parcel, the guards allow themselves to open stewed meats, yoghurts, break sausages and chocolate. Thus, they check whether the food contains items prohibited in the colony.

If you want to avoid inspection, purchase goods and products at a special kiosk located on the territory of the prison or detention center. No one will check these products.

What food and things can be sent to prison?

The list of food and essential goods is strictly limited. Many products that are a luxury for convicts are prohibited, primarily due to their limited shelf life. Prisons should be given practical items and products that can be stored for months or years.

So, it is allowed to transfer the following things to the colonies:

Products, the list of which is fixed by special laws.
Cigarettes are one of the most valuable goods that can be used to pay inmates. Therefore, it is passed on even to non-smokers.
Personal goods (toothpaste and brush, wooden comb, toilet paper and napkins, sanitary pads, laundry soap, aluminum or plastic plates and mugs).
Warm clothes – tracksuit, socks and underpants, a change of clothes.
Literature for reading, pen and notebook, unless prohibited by internal rules.
Electric razors and boilers are also allowed in some isolation wards.

Socks can be donated up to 10 pairs per month, and briefs - up to 5 pieces.

The list of permitted products for transfer to prison is as follows:

Instant noodles (about 20-30 packets);
Instant cereals and mashed potatoes using boiling water;
Bouillon cubes in quantities up to half a kilogram;
Small-leaf and medium-leaf black tea in the amount of two packs - one for the common fund and the second for the prisoner;
Vegetable oil (sunflower or olive) in an amount of up to 3 liters helps improve the quality of any prison food;
Instant jelly and milk powder;
Instant coffee;
Raw smoked sausage and salted lard, sometimes salted fish, and even then not in all correctional institutions;
Honey in transparent containers, condensed milk;
Butter is allowed to be given only to convicts in pre-trial detention centers;
Bread;
Canned food no more than 2 cans, as they are subject to opening and lose their shelf life;
Dried fruits;
Candies such as caramel;
Vegetables, especially onions and garlic, are popular and loved by prisoners.

If any of the products are in cardboard packages, you should unpack them in advance and leave them in transparent ones.

Those that do not have transparent packaging should be placed in packaging bags and tied, but so that employees can untie them. Otherwise, they will simply tear them apart.

Many people are interested in the question of how to transfer medications to a colony . Medicines are actually allowed to be transferred only those that are necessary for a sick prisoner only on the basis of a conclusion or prescription from a correctional institution doctor. Everything else will most likely not be missed.

What is prohibited for transfer?

Please note that everything that you give to your relative will not only be consumed by him. As a rule, all parcels are absorbed by the prisoners together.

The following types of products and goods will not be accepted into the colony or isolation ward:

All perishable products - eggs, cheeses and others, which must be stored in the refrigerator at a temperature below 8 degrees;
All products that require cooking - boiling, frying or stewing;
Meat and fish, vegetables and fruits that are in vacuum packaging;
All alcohol and drugs, kvass, as well as sugar and yeast, from which you can make your own alcoholic drinks;
Money;
Weapons and items that can be used as weapons;
Items of monetary value;
Playing and topographic cards;
Clocks and optical instruments;
Any photographic equipment and office equipment;
Materials containing pornography;
Liquids based on alcohol-containing substances;
Phones, SIM cards and flash drives.

If you try to transfer any of the prohibited goods, an administrative case will be opened against you, which will be considered by a magistrate.

As a punishment, you will be given a fine . Therefore, check your bags in advance for any remaining money or other prohibited items.

The search by correctional facility staff is very thorough . For example, one lady tried to carry a SIM card in her own genitals, but she failed. One can only guess how the inspection of visitors in the colonies is carried out.

The weight of a transfer to a maximum security colony is limited to 20 kg, to a pre-trial detention center – 30 kg . However, from 2022 new rules came into force, according to which the maximum weight of the gear increased to 50 kg.

Unfortunately, many colonies did not take this innovation into account. But this only became a reason to appeal their decisions to ban such broadcasts.