The investigative minds at How to Survive investigate harsh Russian prison environments and the survival strategies inmates ...

Most people think American prisons are the worst in the world, but they don’t come close to Russia’s. Behind the barbed wire and isolation of Russia’s penal colonies lies a system built on fear, ...

A better cell, a hospital stay or early release -- everything can be bought in Russian jails, as corruption revelations have shown. Yelena Fedoseyeva, a former inmate at Prison Camp No. 7 near the ...