Issue # 16-2008. Content

The first material of the issue is by Valery Abramkin On the Situation in the System of Criminal Justice, where he gives a large panorama of today situation and its dangerous trends.

The monitor Protest Actions of Prisoners is now a traditional information in our every issue. Here we publish information on the protest actions in Russian regions since March to June of 2008.

Boris Panteleev in the article The Uncomfortable Freedom speaks about social and, firstly, housing difficulties that meets an ex-prisoner.

The new statistic materials of Penitentiary System is also a traditional material of our issues.

We continue to publish The Militiaman's Chronicle of Vladimir Kuzemko, based on the personal experience.

The material of our author Yuri Aleksandrov is dedicated to the very actual theme of pre-trial prisons today.

We publish an Abstract of as new Report of Amnesty International on death penalty in 2007.

This part of the issue we finish by the review of Aleksei Mokrousov on the book about Russian prisons for minor delinquents by Mary McAuly, the former head of Ford Foundation in Moscow.

In the next part Law and/or Justice we publish the text of A Project of a Law on colonies for minor delinquents and the text of the recently adopted law on the public control in prisons with comments and analytical articles (Yu. Aleksandrov, V. Lozovsky).

The part The boundaries of Misunderstanding is dedicated to a famous criminal case versus Yu. Samodurov, the head of Andrei Sakharov's Foundation and Museum because of the exposition in the Museum The Banned Art. We publish an abstract from the accusation and two independent expert materials by arts critic and philosopher E. Petrovskaya and philosopher O. Aronson.

The last part Books on Prison contains a pre-print of a new book of our author, famous writer Oleg Pavlov. Here we re-publish also the article by Serguei Pashin The Court and Prison Population.

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