Here’s what life is like inside Russia’s toughest prison
By Pamela Engel From Business Insider
Russian prisons are notoriously tough, but there’s one that’s even harder than the rest.
Called Black Dolphin, this high security prison on the Kazakhstan border houses the country’s most brutal criminals, including serial killers, cannibals, and terrorists, according to a documentary by National Geographic.
One prison lieutenant told National Geographic that the only way to escape is by dying.
Black Dolphin is located near the Kazakhstan border. It gets its informal name from the statue out front, made by the prisoners themselves.
The prison houses about 700 inmates, including cannibals, serial killers, and terrorists.
Combined, the inmates have killed about 3,500 people. That’s an average of five murders per inmate.
Black Dolphin inmates are imprisoned for life. Vladimir Nikolayev is doing time for cannibalism.
Nikolayev killed a man during a drunken fight, then dragged him into his bathroom and chopped him up.
He ate some of the body, then gave the rest of the meat to a friend, whose wife served it to his family thinking it was kangaroo. Nikolayev is one of Russia’s most notorious murderers.
Black Dolphin prisoners are kept under constant, 24-hour video surveillance.
The cells are set back behind three sets of steel doors. Inmates live in a “cell within a cell.”
Two inmates share one 50-square-foot cell.
Guards make rounds every 15 minutes.
When inmates leave their cells, they’re forced to walk bent at the waist. This technique is believed to be unique to Black Dolphin.
Inmates are blindfolded when they walk outside.
These two techniques ensure that prisoners don’t have a good understanding of prison layout.
Exercise, consisting of pacing back and forth, takes place in another cell. There is no prison yard.
During exercise time, guards inspect prison cells and check for contraband.
There is no cafeteria in Black Dolphin.
Prisoners eat their meals in their cells.
Inmates are fed soup and bread.
No inmate has ever escaped from Black Dolphin.
In comparison, American prisoners have it pretty good ..
EDITOR – Makes HMP Northward look like a Holiday Camp!!
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We need these in the US, they are like camps here.
Why not just execute? After all it’s Russia isn’t it? Seems to me inhumane to say the least of course you have to consider these men’s crimes. Just another example of how barbaric Russia truly is. That culture seems to have something in there genes that is hard to understand!
Well if someone gave you kangaroo meat when it really was human meat then that person is barbaric. Seems to me that dude is in the right place.
But surely execution is the ‘easy way out’ Why shouldn’t they be made to suffer??
Damn!!! America needs these kinds of prisons
yes, i argree.
Right-On ! Of course most people don’t think so. Yer NOT in prison to have “FUN” watching the telly and kicking back.Violent people have NO place with the rest of us. Take control of the bastards. The Cost in money and main power is of too much to bare. Put that money towards helping those whom need help the most.
This truly is a REAL PRISON we just many many more just like them !
Well now,we don’t need more prisons. we do need to keep the real son-of-bitches in Control ! Not let ’em get away with living a semi ” normal life “. If yer so dam bad, then Off With There god-dam heads ! Yes by God. Get rid of them. When they get a death warrant carry it OUT in a week or less. Why stand around with them living for Years ? The people they killed don’t have any way to come back.Hell no take the no good ass’s to the grave, No Name, Just An Number. If possible on prison grounds. ” CREMATION ” best way, low cost plus very little earth needs to be used. What ya think.
I was actually rehabbed in prison. my crimes were different than those at the black dolphin however. I’ don’t understand the mindset of pedeofiles, nor ones that would eat people, so that to me is over the top. anyway either rehab them or kill them. Why all this extra manpower.