Prison Guards In Russia Suffer From 'Moral Fatigue,' Official Says

[Rogue Valley]

Prison Guards In Russia Suffer From 'Moral Fatigue,' Official Says

The head of the Yaroslavl Prison Colony No 1. in Yaroslavl, Russia. The Russian investigative reporter who
exposed the brutality and prisoner abuse in this colony fled Russia last year in fear of her life.

1/7/19
Amid a continuing debate about the dire conditions in Russian prisons and repeated cases of torture there, a top official from Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) says its workers are suffering from "moral fatigue" as a result of low wages and daily contacts with inmates who sometimes attack the guards. The topic has come to the attention of the Russian public and the media in recent months after a video showing at least 17 guards beating an inmate at a prison in the city of Yaroslavl became public in July. Valery Maksimenko told the Interfax news agency on January 7 that more than 3,000 psychologists work in the FSIN, of whom some 350 provide prison guards and other FSIN workers with necessary professional assistance. Maksimenko,the deputy head of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, told Ekho Moskvy radio that Russia needs more prisons to hold police officers, prison guards, and other law enforcement agents who have been convicted of crimes. In Russia and some other former Soviet republics, former law enforcement officers serve prison terms in penitentiaries separate from common ones. Abuse by police, prison guards, and other law enforcement officers has long been a problem in Russia. The topic has come to the attention of the Russian public and the media in recent months after a video showing at least 17 guards beating an inmate at a prison in the city of Yaroslavl became public in July. Fifteen guards from that prison were arrested following a public outcry. Probes were launched against several prison guards suspected of torturing or killing inmates in Russia's other regions.

In many ways, the current Russian penitentiary canvass is derived from the earlier Soviet Gulags even though Russian prison officials deny this. At the beginning of 2019, Russian officials admitted that at least one prison had female prisoners engaged as slave laborers working 17 hours a day. And counter to what Maksimenko says, with the strict rules currently in place, it is virtually impossible for a prisoner to physically attack prison guards. As a general rule, living conditions at pretrial detention facilities holding those awaiting trial in Russia are far worse than the living conditions in formal penitentiaries holding convicted prisoners serving their sentences.

 

[Barnacle]

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In many ways, the current Russian penitentiary canvass is derived from the earlier Soviet Gulags even though Russian prison officials deny this. At the beginning of 2019, Russian officials admitted that at least one prison had female prisoners engaged as slave laborers working 17 hours a day. And counter to what Maksimenko says, with the strict rules currently in place, it is virtually impossible for a prisoner to physically attack prison guards. As a general rule, living conditions at pretrial detention facilities holding those awaiting trial in Russia are far worse than the living conditions in formal penitentiaries holding convicted prisoners serving their sentences.

At least these "fatigued" guards don't get killed like in US prisons ...

 

[Rogue Valley]

At least these "fatigued" guards don't get killed like in US prisons ...

So you support torture, abuse, and slave labor in prisons?

 

[Barnacle]

So you support torture, abuse, and slave labor in prisons?

eh ... ?!?

 

[DaveFagan]

What's the difference between that and Corporate prisons for profit in the USA?
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[Rogue Valley]

eh ... ?!?

Perhaps their "moral fatigue" derives from their proclivity to torture and abuse prisoners?

Did that rational explanation ever occur to you?

 

[Barnacle]

Perhaps their "moral fatigue" derives from their proclivity to torture and abuse prisoners?
Did that rational explanation ever occur to you?

Frankly, my good man, I don't give a **** about how "moral fatigue" affects Russian prison guards.

I am more worried about "moral fatigue" of American police officers ... 160 suicides in 2018 thanks to ...

"... “The fact that the police are so vilified in the media and the political system, constantly subject to false allegations that lead to discipline and other forms of harassment, certainly take its toll on police officers,” the union said in a statement last week, “and is a leading cause of despair and low morale throughout the department.” ..."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/police-s...says-vilification-is-leading-cause-of-despair

 

[Chagos]

~.....................I am more worried about "moral fatigue" of American police officers ... 160 suicides in 2018 thanks to .........................~

Then why don't you address that in the more appropriate forum?

Which, geographically speaking, the Europe forum is NOT.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Frankly, my good man, I don't give a **** about how "moral fatigue" affects Russian prison guards.

Then why did you barge in on a thread in the Europe Forum?

You want to discuss American police officers? Fine. But do that in the proper DP forum plz.