Today I read that the first ever escape from the special regime colony “Black Dolphin” was accomplished.
Surprised unusual name and this cute photo.
I decided to find out about the colony, and was horrified by what was happening behind its walls.
It turns out that she - horrible dream even for prisoners who have the blood of dozens of victims on their hands.

Since this colony is for life prisoners and they have nothing to lose, the following is practiced there.
To prevent relatives from organizing release with the help of snipers, prisoners are placed with a black bag over their heads when moving.
Only the guards know who they are leading this time.

First, newcomers will face a 15-day quarantine.
The “trained” prisoners are immediately made to understand that any refusal to comply with the daily routine may result in the use of tear gas and rubber batons...

Since those sentenced to life have nothing to lose, the administration of the institution understands this well.
Every second, 24 hours a day, an order that has been proven over the years reigns here, for violation of which not only the culprit, but also his “colleagues” are severely punished.
Due to the act of a prisoner who threw an electric wire on the cell door as a joke in the Perm colony, as a result of which the guard received an electric shock, electricity in the cells is turned on only at a strictly defined time and only for a little while.
The radio is strictly on schedule.

In “Black Dolphin” the cells are “modified” - a thick grille is located inside at a distance of about a meter from the concrete walls.
To avoid undermining, all cameras are located no lower than the second floor.
The window is designed in such a way that you can only see a small piece of the sky through it.
This eliminates the possibility of exploring the territory of the colony and planning an escape.

You are allowed to sleep only in the light and with your head towards the door. Covering your face is prohibited.
If a prison officer sees a violation, the command “to the original!” is immediately given to the entire cell.
Prisoners are required to jump up, bend over, rest their head against the nearest wall, close their eyes, place their hands with outstretched fingers far back and open their mouth.
Changing position is allowed only after the command “expense!”

All movements outside the cell are only with a blindfold, on half-bent legs and with the face pressed to the knees.
The pose is similar to that taken on the command “back to the starting position!”
Closing your eyes at the wrong time is already regarded as an attempt to attack the guard.
One prisoner is taken out into the corridor by at least two colony employees.
In case of an emergency, special narrow pipes for ejecting keys are welded next to the cameras.
There are 1,600 places in the colony; people sit alone or in groups of two, although the cells are designed for four.

A control walk is performed every 15 minutes.
Upon hearing the sound of the cell's steel peephole, prisoners must freeze in place, spread their arms and legs, and spread their fingers.

All the furniture inside the cells is made of iron and tightly welded to its place.
You can't even move a chair.
If someone gets sick, the pills are passed into the chamber on a special wooden spatula, like they would be given to wild animals.

After ten years of “serving”, if the prisoner has behaved well, he can be rewarded with a work permit.
The work involves sewing shoes in specialized chambers with sewing machines.
Many, once in a colony, begin to believe in God.
In the prayer room, the prisoner has only one hand free - the other is handcuffed.

Every lifelong prisoner of the Black Dolphin understands that he has the right to pardon only after the expiration of a 25-year sentence and subject to good behavior.
That is why, if a vote was held on the topic of the death penalty, the majority of prisoners would probably be in favor of its return.

The most famous prisoners of the Black Dolphin colony.

Vladimir Nikolaev – famous killer and a cannibal, killed and ate two people.
Alexey Pichugin – former head department of internal economic security in oil company YUKOS, convicted on charges of organizing murders and assassinations.
Sergei Maduev is one of the most famous Soviet raiders.
Oleg Rylkov is a maniac killer, raped 37 young girls, killed 4 people.
Oleg Kostarev is the organizer of the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market in 2006.

And the history of the name of the colony is as follows:

The colony got its name from the fountain built in its courtyard with a sculpture depicting a black dolphin.
The sculpture was made Ukrainian maniac Krishtoka from Donetsk.
He asked for wire, cardboard and paint in the camera.
With other prisoners, I made two dolphins from papier-mâché and adapted one into a fountain, which the citizen suggested to the warden to install near the prison.
The administration decided: why not?
And so they did.
After this, the colony unofficially began to be called “Black Dolphin”.

INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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Extramural.

Report on the subject “Criminal enforcement law”

on the topic “Life imprisonment. Special regime colony Black Dolphin."

Moscow 2010

Life imprisonment.

In the current criminal legislation, life imprisonment is distinguished as an independent type of punishment (clause “m” of Article 44 and Article 57 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Life imprisonment, just like imprisonment for a certain term, consists of isolating the convicted person from society in a special institution (in special regime correctional colonies), but indefinitely (for life).

Life imprisonment appeared in Russia in 1996 as a replacement for the death penalty. Now in Russian prisons about 1,400 “lifers.” They must spend the first 10 years of their term in special blocks in several colonies, of which four are the most famous: in the Vologda region on Ognenny Island, “White Swan” in Solikamsk, “Black Dolphin” in Orenburg and ZH-385 in the village of Yavas in Mordovia .

After the introduction of a new punishment, appropriate amendments should have appeared in the Criminal Executive Code, explaining exactly the conditions in which the new category of prisoners should be kept. However, in reality, the existence of “lifers” is regulated by closed GUIN instructions, and in practice a lot depends on the head of a particular colony. The warden cannot significantly improve the prisoner’s existence of his own free will, but he can make it worse. For example, in “White Swan” and “Black Dolphin”, prisoners are bent down to the ground as much as possible when walking, forcing them to raise their arms high and quickly mince their feet. This is done ostensibly in the interests of security. But on the island of “Fire” and in Yavas there is no such miracle work - there the convicts walk upright, and safety, apparently, does not suffer from this.

Black Dolphin.

Currently, the special regime colony “Black Dolphin” YUK-25/6 is the largest in the penal system of the Russian Ministry of Justice: it can simultaneously hold more than 1,000 convicts sentenced to capital punishment, which is replaced by life imprisonment. Today the prison is almost half full; about 500 death row inmates are living out their lives here. Most of them received sentences after 1996, already during the moratorium period. However, there are also old-timers who have been serving time since the first half of the 90s. The president granted life to these people by signing a decree replacing the death penalty with life in prison.

There are two three-story buildings in the protected area. The main one is made of red brick, with massive oak doors decorated with intricate patterns. Opposite the entrance there are two small fountains, in the center of each there are figures of black dolphins. The guards call this building the red building. They say that this is the oldest building on the territory of the colony - the building was erected at the beginning of the last century. In the corridors of the gloomy building there is sterile cleanliness and a kind of afterlife silence. It’s as if there were not five hundred murderers behind iron doors, but skeletons in crypts. For the sake of brevity, everyone who ends up here is called “wasps,” short for “convicts.”

The history of dolphins in the colony is full of mysteries. It is still unknown who came up with the idea to “decorate” the institution with mammals outlandish for the Urals. But they say that still in old times, when the colony was at its most ordinary, one of the convicts, a sculptor by profession, was asked to sculpt some animal. At first they wanted a bear, but for some reason they abandoned this idea. The sculptor seemed to suggest the dolphins himself - and why not? And for two years now the Sol-Iletsk colony has not been called anything other than “Black Dolphin”.

Colony contingent.

Among the inhabitants of the colony is the famous terrorist Salaudin Temirbulatov, nicknamed Tractor Driver, who shot Russian soldiers in Chechnya with undisguised pleasure in front of the cameras. A videotape with footage of Temirbulatov executing a Russian soldier went around the whole world.

Among the inhabitants of the “Black Dolphinarium” there are also a couple of cannibals. One of them is a 46-year-old resident of Novocheboksarsk, Vladimir Nikolaev, who, after drinking alcohol together, killed his drinking buddies, and then butchered their corpses and ate them himself and fed the human flesh to the guests. And he even sold some of the human meat at the market, passing it off as kangaroo meat.

Another cannibal is Sergei Maslich. Having been convicted many times, he “distinguished himself” by strangling a cellmate during his penultimate imprisonment and then cutting open his stomach with a sharpened ballpoint pen. At the same time, Maslich cooked the heart, stomach and liver of the murdered man in a metal mug over the fire of a gas burner right in the production area of ​​the zone.

One of the latter is Ex-Major Evsyukov, sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting at a capital supermarket.

Last way.

As soon as a life prisoner’s foot touches the Sol-Iletsk soil, a canvas bag is thrown over his head. This is also done for the safety of the prisoners themselves. The arriving contingent is the most terrible killers who have taken the lives of more than one hundred people - cannibals, rapists, terrorists. Oleg Rylkov abused, for example, 37 girls who were eight or nine years old. “Can you imagine what they would do to such people in an ordinary prison?” say the jailers. “They would tear them to shreds in a second.” The possibility of blood feud is not ruled out here: if desired, you can see the prison yard from the windows of nearby houses, which means you can shoot the enemy. Therefore, a bag is needed so that it is not clear who is being led. Through the line of guards with frantically barking and shepherd dogs tearing from their leashes, the handcuffed prisoners run to their final abode. Then they are put in quarantine for 15 days, where they study the rules accepted in the colony. If prisoners do not comply with certain requirements, they may be subjected to rubber truncheons and tear gas. Prisoners are required to stand at attention as soon as they hear the ring of the metal round peephole on the door. Then they must wait for the demands of the guards. If food is brought, the convicts hit the wall closest to them with their heads at knee level, raise their arms up with their palms turned outward, open their mouths and wait until the security inspector’s command is heard: “Report.” The cell duty officer, without changing his position, begins to quickly report on its inhabitants. The faster he rattles off the text of the report, the less he and his fellow inmates will have to stand in an awkward position.

Then the duty officer gives instructions to conduct a search in the cell, all prisoners run to the bars separating the entrance door to the cell from their place of residence, and stretch out their hands behind their backs so that the guards handcuff them.
After receiving the command to leave the cell, the convicts quickly do this and, bending over and resting their heads, stand against the wall.

The colony provides various devices for all occasions. If a prisoner falls ill, the cell duty officer presses the call button, the security inspector at his post lights up a board with the cell number, after which he finds out the reason for the call. If necessary, tablets are transferred into the chamber on a special wooden spatula.

In the cells, bars separate prisoners from the outside door and window. It turns out to be a cell. Two bunk beds are screwed to the floor, next to a washbasin and toilet. “Wasps” sleep with their heads towards the door, without covering their faces and in fairly bright light. Many death row inmates admit that they would like to take their own lives, but the possibility of suicide in a colony is practically excluded. At the slightest violation of the regime, the cellmates will press the call button: if something extraordinary happens in the cell, all of them will have to answer. Here there is no need for an executioner, here time is the main executioner.

They live in cells of two or three, sometimes one at a time. Unlike other convicts, they do not work; the only type of work allowed is what can be done right in the cell: weaving or knitting, for example, but such work is not available everywhere. Prisoners leave their cell only for an hour and a half a day to exercise. In the courtyard of the colony, locked courtyards were built, each approximately the size of a cell. All cellmates are taken to such a courtyard at the same time. Such walks and a bath once a week are the only events in the “lifer’s” schedule.

Schedule.

In "Black Dolphin" there is a strictly verified life routine for prisoners over many years of experience. Sterile cleanliness reigns in the cells: for the slightest wrinkle on the bed or a speck of dust, prisoners are punished in such a way that it is better not to tell. Lying down or even sitting on the bed during the day is prohibited.

There is a special regime of detention here. The daily routine is strictly observed. Wake up at 6 am. You need to carefully make the bed, wash your face, and clean the cell. Half an hour to do everything. Breakfast starts at 6.30. After forty-five minutes it ends. Electrical sockets are turned on from 7.15 to 8.00. You can boil water. If there is tea, brew it. No, they just drink boiling water. Those who have an electric razor shave. There is a radio in the cells from 6.15 to 8.00. Usually "Radio Russia" or "Mayak". The morning check begins at 8:00. From 9.00 to 10.00 - doctor's rounds. From 10.00 - a walk in a stone courtyard several meters long. Five to six steps from wall to wall. At the same time, patients can be taken to the medical unit. From 13.00 to 13.50 - lunch. Then ten minutes are spent cleaning the cells. From 14.00 to 17.00 the radio is turned on. From 18.00 to 18.40 - dinner. From 20.00 to 20.30 - evening check. From 20.30 the electrical outlets and radio are turned on again. Turns off shortly before lights out. At 22.00 - lights out. And in the morning again in this circle.

The menu consists mainly of porridges - pearl barley, barley, and oatmeal. And also peas and buckwheat. For lunch - soup or cabbage soup. Always fish and meat. True, it’s mostly soy, but quite tasty. In the morning for breakfast and in the evening for dinner there is always sweet tea or dried fruit compote.

From time to time, prisoners are changed places: they are transferred from one cell to another, the neighbors are different each time. You can live in the same cell with someone for two years, with someone - for a year. And with some - a month or two. Always different. All days here are the same - gray, faceless. “You can’t call it life. Life remains there, on the other side of the fence, where you all are. And we have existence. Time stopped and everything merged into a solid gray reality. Well, we’ve somehow gotten used to it and don’t seem to notice..."

The ghost of freedom in the black corridor

The most popular book in The Black Dolphin is The Count of Monte Cristo. There is a huge queue for it at the library. She is constantly in her arms. The choice of prisoners is not surprising: each of them hopes to be released sooner or later. Those who lose hope die very quickly.

Representatives of various faiths are kept in the colony; clergy constantly come to them and conduct religious services over the internal radio network. For most of the inhabitants of the Black Dolphin, joining religion is the only distraction from reality.
In addition to faith in God, the convicts try to forget themselves through correspondence with outside world and writing cassation requests to the prosecutor's office and the Supreme Court.

Theoretically, any of the "suicide bombers" could be released. In 25 years. Hope doesn't last that long. After ten years of exemplary behavior, the law promises "wasps" concessions. They consist in doubling the number of parcels for prisoners, introducing long visits and increasing the number of short visits. But most of the “suicide bombers” no longer have anyone to meet with. Wives leave, children forget, parents die. After 7-10 years, and even more so after 15-20, lifelong inmates lose socially useful connections. In conditions of the strictest conditions of detention, meager food (22 rubles per day) and the prison epidemic of tuberculosis, the prison inmates quickly make room for the next inhabitants.

According to prison psychologists, during the first year of life imprisonment a person gets used to new conditions. This is the stage of cognition. Then for another three years there is a period of stabilization, during which time the prisoner looks like a robot. He follows commands without thinking. Next are two ways. If a person adapts, he can continue to be a robot. If not, the third stage begins: rapid extinction. Both mental and physical. Inflammation of the lymph nodes begins, the cortical layer of the adrenal glands begins to grow, and ulcers appear in the gastrointestinal tract. The man is slowly dying. Myself.

Wake up at 6 am. You need to carefully make the bed, wash your face, and clean the cell. Half an hour to do everything.

Breakfast starts at 6.30. After forty-five minutes it ends.

Electrical sockets are turned on from 7.15 to 8.00. You can boil water. If there is tea, brew it. No, they just drink boiling water. Those who have an electric razor shave.

There is probably no worse place for a person than prison. Places where there are no relatives and friends, where there is no support and care. Only cold and gloomy walls with small windows, or even without them at all. Russian prisons can become a “home” for a long time for those who have stumbled and are forced to bear punishment.

"I'll serve time for other people's sins..."

No one in life is immune from wrongdoing. Everyone, for various reasons, may one day find themselves on the other side of the bars. And if for some the word “Butyrka” is associated with a popular musical group, then others are familiar with this place firsthand.

Butyrka prison is one of the most big places imprisonment in Moscow, which is located on Novoslobodskaya street near Butyrskaya outpost between residential buildings. The prison has been known since the end of the 18th century. Many famous people were its prisoners. For example, N. E. Bauman, F. E. Dzerzhinsky, V. V. Mayakovsky, E. Pugachev. One of the prison towers even bears the name of its “guest” - Pugachev. Strange sounds are sometimes heard from her basement. Maybe these are the cries of innocently punished souls? In a word, a terrible area.

The second place among the famous dungeons is occupied by the “Crosses”. The prison received its name because of the peculiarity of its structure. Criminals sentenced to solitary confinement end up here. At this stage, they plan to move the prison outside the city, and sell this building (and for a tidy sum!).

Next on the list of “famous Russian prisons” is Lefortovo Prison, a place characterized by cruelty and severity. The dungeon was founded back in the 19th century and was initially a “refuge” for petty thieves and robbers. The building has four floors, each with fifty cells. Lefortovo prison is shrouded in mystery and darkness. Until now, not a single journalist has been able to penetrate there. So no one knows what life is like there from the inside.

The most terrible prisons in Russia

It so happens that some instill fear and horror in prisoners more than others. The most terrible and cruel prison was nicknamed “Black Dolphin”, which Orenburg region. In terms of the number of places, this is the largest colony, which in its entire history has not “lost” a single hostage. This prison is also called a place for death row, because people serve life sentences here. The prisoners of the “Black Dolphin” are rapists, cannibals and terrorists, at whose hands thousands of innocent people were killed.

During the day in prison they are forbidden to sit on their bunks, and they are always taken out for walks blindfolded. Convicts willy-nilly turn into obedient zombie robots. But even to such a life you can get used to it.

The second scary place for criminals is the “White Swan”, whose contingent consists of prisoners convicted of serving a sentence in this zone will completely dispel the myths about the distant nineties. More than one thief in law was broken here.

Women's prisons in Russia

IN Russian Federation Of the 739 existing colonies, 35 are female. In ten of them you can serve your sentence together with your child (Samara, Sverdlovsk region, Khabarovsk, Chelyabinsk, Vladimir, Moscow and Kemerovo regions).

Often women end up in prison while already pregnant. The birth of a baby does not affect the punishment in any way (only in some cases they can reduce the term). The life of such “mothers” looks a little better - the food is healthier, and the walks are longer, which is why many continue their pregnancy because of such indulgences. After giving birth, you are allowed to spend only a few hours a day with your children. When a child reaches three years of age, he is sent either to Orphanage or immediate family. If there are none, and orphanages are overcrowded, there is a possibility that Russian prisons will become “homes” for children.

Life goes on

Those people who go to prison for the first time always have the thought: “Well, that’s it! Life is over..." But this is far from true. Life behind bars does not end, but on the contrary, a new one begins. New rules, new society, new interests and activities.

Prisoners have their own daily routine, in which, in addition to work, there is also room for rest. Many Russian prisons are equipped with sports grounds, libraries, and recreation rooms where you can watch a documentary or film. There are also small churches in places of deprivation of liberty, because it is never too late to repent.

If we talk about work, there is no easy work in prison. Prisoners mainly engage in steel casting, wood processing and sewing all sorts of necessary things. This way, time passes faster, and you can earn a penny.

God works in mysterious ways...

No one in this life is ever safe from anything. An exemplary and law-abiding citizen today can become a repeat offender tomorrow. Serving a sentence is re-education, rebirth, a new look at existence. And although the most brutal life-long prisons in Russia (like the “Black Dolphin” and “White Swan”) create melancholy and fear, it is important to remember that there is a completely different life there too.

Lionel Tate

Lionel Tate was a troubled 12-year-old who loved wrestling and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. His mother worked part-time while staying at home with a neighbor girl, six-year-old Tiffany Yunick. One day, Tiffany was briefly alone with Lionel - and then she was found dead. Lionel stated in court that he and Tiffany were playing wrestlers, and the girl accidentally hit the table. But the judge did not believe him: 35 injuries were found on the girl’s body, including skull and child fractures, numerous bruises and abrasions. Lionel, however, continued to insist that the murder was unintentional. The public took his side, and the court was forced to replace the sentence of life imprisonment for murder with a more lenient one. Two years later, in 2003, Lionel was released from probationary period- and was immediately arrested again for the armed robbery of a pizza delivery man and assault on his client. Lionel Tate is currently serving a 30-year sentence in prison.

Eric Smith

Eric Smith is 14 years old in this photo taken during his 1993 trial. This thin, bespectacled boy was accused of the cold-blooded murder of four-year-old Derrick Robbie. Smith first strangled the baby and then broke his head with rock blows. At the trial, Eric fully admitted to his crime, but did not show a trace of remorse. He is now 37 and plans to apply for clemency next year. According to him, he repented and wants to devote his life to helping difficult teenagers. But it’s kind of scary to believe in it.

Jordan Brown

11-year-old Jordan Brown shot and killed his father's pregnant fiancée, Kenzie Hawke, in cold blood in 2009. He fired several shots at her from his own gun, a gift from his father: a passionate hunter, he taught the boy to his hobby. The court intended to try him as an adult - then he would have faced life imprisonment. However, the lawyer was able to convince the jury that, despite the brutality of the crime, Brown should be tried as a juvenile offender. As a result, he ended up in a correctional colony for juvenile offenders, and in 2016, at the age of 18, he was released on parole, having received new documents so that his name tarnished by the crime would not prevent him from starting new life. Nobody knows what's wrong with him now.

Brendan Dassey

In 2005, 16-year-old Brendan Dassey was accused of the brutal rape and murder of a woman named Teresa Halbach and sentenced to a long prison sentence. Dassey himself fully admitted his guilt. However, lawyers were able to draw the attention of judges and public defenders to numerous formal violations in Dassey's case. Thus, a young man with an intellectual disability (his IQ never exceeded 70) was interrogated in the first days without a lawyer or legal representative. It was quite possible, the lawyers insisted, that the police themselves had put the confession into Dassey’s mouth. As a result, Brendan was released - and no one still knows whether he is truly innocent, or whether the judges released a brutal killer.

Curtis and Catherine Jones

In 1999, in Florida, 13-year-old Katherine Jones and her 12-year-old brother Curtis, having agreed in advance, shot and killed their friend Sonia Speight out of envy for her more have a prosperous life. Both were sentenced to 18 years in prison. Later, in an interview from prison, Katherine spoke about the constant physical and sexual abuse she and her brother suffered in home. Judging by her stories, even in prison she and Curtis were better off than with their relatives. Both Joneses were recently released: Catherine, before her release, married a sailor with whom she corresponded, and Curtis became a priest.

Nathaniel Abraham

In 2007, 11-year-old Nathaniel Abraham was convicted of an armed attack on a store that killed a 19-year-old customer. The murder was clearly premeditated: Nathaniel had obtained a gun in advance and was learning how to shoot, telling his girlfriend that he was going to “shoot someone.” However, the jury could not bring itself to try the skinny kid as an adult criminal - and Nathaniel was sent to a juvenile correctional facility with the right to release upon reaching 18 years of age. In 2007, at 20 years old, he was released. And by 2012, he was serving a 20-year sentence for drug possession and trafficking, awaiting another trial for attacking prison guards.

Jamie Silvonek

In 2015, 14-year-old Jamie Silvonek began an affair with 20-year-old cadet Caleb Barnes. One day, Jamie's mother, Cheryl Silvonek, found them in bed. Having threatened Caleb with criminal prosecution for having sex with a minor, Cheryl said that the young people should get married. Having agreed for the sake of appearances, Jamie and Caleb decided to do something different: after asking Cheryl to take them to the concert, they strangled and beat her to death in their own car. At first, Caleb took all the blame upon himself, but it soon became clear that Jamie was the instigator and main participant in the murder of his own mother. Both lovers received 35 years in prison.

Wendy Gardner

Wendy Gardner was the daughter of a drug addict. After her mother died of AIDS, 13-year-old Wendy and her 11-year-old sister Katie moved in with their grandmother, Betty Gardner. The life together of the grandmother and granddaughters did not last long: in the same 1994, 13-year-old Wendy and her 15-year-old boyfriend James Evans decided to kill Betty. The granddaughter and her boyfriend strangled the grandmother with fishing line, forcing 11-year-old Katie to watch the murder. Then a couple in the same room had sex. Despite the extreme cruelty of the crime, the court turned out to be humane towards juvenile offenders: James was sentenced to 9, and Wendy to 7 years in prison. Evans' sentence was subsequently extended, and Wendy Gardner was safely released from prison in 2004.

Christian Fernandez

In 2013, the Christian Fernandez case shook all of America. A 13-year-old boy lived with a 25-year-old mother, who not only did not pay attention to him, but also constantly left him to look after his two-year-old brother David, leaving home for a long time. One day, upon returning home, the boys' mother, Bianella Suzanne, discovered youngest son unconscious. Without being too concerned, the mother took the child to the hospital a few hours later, where he soon died. The investigation found that David had been beaten. Christian soon admitted that, angry at his brother, he hit him twice against the bookshelves. Both the boy and his mother were in the dock. Christian received 7 years in prison without the possibility of release until 2018, when he turns 19. But Bianella Suzanne was released in the courtroom, having served only a preliminary sentence. Surely this worthy woman will have time to give birth to several more children.

Kelly Ellard

In 1997, 15-year-old Kelly Ellard from British Columbia was charged with the murder of 14-year-old Rina Werk. It was a typical case of teenage bullying: a group of six girlfriends invited Rina to go for a walk, but when she arrived, they began to brutally beat her, put out cigarettes on her skin and set her hair on fire. When Rina finally managed to escape, two girls, Kelly Ellard and Warren Hlavacki, followed her and beat her again. And then Kelly, clearly unable to stop, dragged the half-conscious Rina to the river and drowned her. Despite the evidence, Kelly's case was reviewed three times until she was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2005 for the brutal murder.

Paula Cooper

15-year-old Paula Cooper was the leader of a street group of girls from 14 to 16 years old. In 1986, they attacked 78-year-old Ruth Pelke on the street, intending to rob her. But it turned out that the old woman only took $10 with her. And then Paula, in a rage, stabbed the woman 33 times. The girls were tried, sentencing Paula's accomplices to terms from 25 to 60 years in prison, and Paula herself to death. Such a cruel sentence to the young girl caused an explosion of indignation: more than 3 million signatures were collected for her pardon, and even the Pope sent a personal appeal to the Indiana authorities calling not to take Paula’s life. As a result, the sentence was commuted to 60 years in prison. As a result, Paula Cooper spent about 30 years in prison and was released early in 2013. Two years later she committed suicide.

"Elkhart Four"

In 2012, 16-year-old Blake Lyman, 17-year-old Levi Sparks, 18-year-old Anthony Sharp and 15-year-old Jose Quiros, along with an older friend, 21-year-old Denzel Jones, decided to go on a robbery. They broke into a neighbor's house, thinking he was away. However, the owner of the House, Rodney Scott, was at home. It was he who shot and killed 21-year-old Denzel. However, his death was blamed not on the victim defending his property, but on the surviving unlucky robbers: after all, it was their criminal actions that led to the death of their comrade! As a result, each of the guys received 20 years in prison for robbery that led to the death of a person. And although many protested against the cruelty of the sentence, the criminals themselves did not commit murder! - however, if you think about it, there is the highest justice in this approach.

Joshua Phillips

In 1998, 14-year-old Joshua Phillips killed his 8-year-old neighbor Maddie Clifton. For a week, the teenager actively participated in the search for the girl, after which Joshua's mother accidentally discovered her body under his bed. The girl was beaten to death with a baseball bat; in addition, several knife wounds were found on her body, and signs of strangulation were found on her neck. As Joshua himself lamely explained, he and Maddie were playing baseball and he accidentally hit her in the face with a bat. The girl screamed, blood flowed, and he panicked, afraid that someone would find out about what had happened. So he dragged Maggie into the house and continued to hit her with the bat until she was quiet. Then, just to be sure, he stabbed her several times with a knife and strangled her with a telephone wire. Joshua Phillips was sentenced to life in prison without the right to seek a reduction until September 2017.

George Stinney

This case is the oldest and most controversial in the collection. In 1944, 14-year-old George Stinner was accused of killing two white girls, 11-year-old Betty Binnicker and 8-year-old Mary Thames. The girls were picking flowers in the field when someone sneaked up and hit each of them several times with a heavy iron rod. The only person arrested was George Stinner: someone saw how the girls, on their way to buy flowers, approached him and asked for directions. This was virtually the only evidence, but it was enough for the jury to sentence the 14-year-old to death for double murder. George was executed on June 29, 1944. Later, his cellmates, upon leaving prison, said: the boy repeatedly told them that he did not want to die for a crime that he did not commit.

John Vinables and Robert Thompson

Despite angelic appearance, this couple is the most scary killers in the entire collection. February 12, 1993 at mall they kidnapped two-year-old James Bulger from his mother. Taking the boy to the tracks behind the railway station, they began to systematically abuse the child. The criminals beat him, kicked him, threw stones and sticks at him, trampled on him, and finally brought a multi-ton iron beam down on his head. The criminals were caught by accident: trying to get rid of the body, they carried it to the rails, where they came into view of the video camera. The public rebelled, demanding the harshest possible sentence, but due to their youth, both criminals were sentenced to 8 years in prison. Upon release, they received new documents - a chance to start a new life. However, judging by the leaked information, at least John Vinables did not take advantage of this chance and was at least once in prison.

Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tuckett, Hope Ripley, Tony Lawrence

Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tuckett, Hope Ripley and Toni Lawrence were 14 or 15 years old when they brutally tortured and murdered their friend, 12-year-old Shanda Shyer, in 1990. It's hard to believe that the instigator of the murder was Melinda - the smiling, curly-haired girl from the first photo. The reason was that she was jealous of Shanda and her ex-girlfriend. The girls beat their victim and tried to cut her throat, but they failed and simply beat Shanda to death. As a result, the main participants in the murder, Melinda Loveless and Laurie Tuckett, each received 60 years in prison without parole until 2020. Toni Lawrence received the least: sincerely admitting her guilt, she received 20 years and was released early in 2000, after 9 years in prison.

In the city of Sol-Iletsk, which is located in the Orenburg region on the border with Kazakhstan, there is a special prison, which is popularly called the “Black Dolphin”. This maximum security colony was created for the most dangerous criminals who received life sentences for their crimes. This post will introduce you in more detail to the prison from which it is simply impossible to escape.

The colony owes its unofficial name to a sculpture that was made and installed at the entrance by the prisoners themselves.

Currently, about 700 prisoners are serving sentences here, including terrorists, cannibals and serial killers.

On average, there are deaths for every convicted person, since in total about 3,500 people died at the hands of these criminals.

All prisoners were sentenced to life imprisonment. This is Vladimir Nikolaev, who killed a man in drunken fight, then cut his body and ate it.

Prisoners are under constant video surveillance. Convicts leave their cells only in handcuffs, which are fastened tightly behind their backs.

There are individual cages inside the individual chambers. by 5 square meters two people huddle.

Cameras are checked every 15 minutes.

The camera does not see the courtyard, but only the sky. The walking yard is closed, you can only walk forward and backward in it.

Cells are often searched to identify the possible presence of prohibited items.

Food is carried to the cells.

The main food is soup with bread.

All convicts wear one black uniform with three white stripes.

There have never been any prisoner escapes in this prison.