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And sometimes it’s quite simple: an old-timer suggests to a beginner: let’s play checkers, they say. Under interest? No, just like that. And the camera is freaking out. This "for nothing" means a bet on turning yourself into a pederast, that's all, except for a beginner, they know, he will know when it's too late. And he can't refuse. For the lever of coercion is beatings, which here, as it were, have a legal character according to prison tradition. Collective, long-term, ruthless. During breaks, they will persuade that, they say, it's okay, just once and then the beatings will stop. If you don't want it, put it in your mouth. The latter, oddly enough, seduces many who are already stupefied from pain and humiliation, desperate, looking for any way out.
But no, the beatings won't stop. He is already different now, he is a rooster (that's what they call him in the zone of pederasts), and his fate is nightmarish - hopeless until the end of his term. He is now separated from everyone by this new quality of his, anyone beats him, anyone humiliates him, anything can be forced to do anything. And he will give in to himself soon - completely and so he will go to the zone. In the camp, the roosters do the hardest work, and they are also raised before anyone else, so that they would grind and clean the yard, clearing it of debris or snow, washing all the corners and nooks and crannies in the barracks. And they eat separately from everyone, and their dishes are separate, and side by side they sleep separately. Those who are bored - they beat them or mock them, force them to fight with each other for fun, most of them completely lose their human appearance. Their intimidation, downtroddenness and downtroddenness are evidence of how ruthless an infringed person is, who himself has rather lost his humanity.
I will put you at the first table (where the roosters sit right at the entrance) - the most common threat in the camp. Turning into a rooster is the worst punishment. This is often done in isolation wards, if a well-known scammer (or a strongly suspected one) or a rat house gets there - caught stealing from his own people, they do this with a person, settling scores with him for something. This is a very terrible revenge. For there is no way back here, no return to its former quality. To lower it, that is, to turn it into a pederast - you can forget it and erase it - no one will allow it. The first is the unfortunate man himself, who knows what will happen to him for hiding somewhere in the new zone of his former belonging to a despicable caste. It’s good if he remains crippled from the inevitable reprisal, but most likely they will finish him to the end. For even those who communicated with him, not yet knowing that he was a cock, can now also be punished on occasion by landing at the first table. No, no one dares to hide it.
Only again about the secret properties of a person - this, perhaps, shocked me the most in the camp when I found out. The fact is that almost all roosters after some (different for each, but relatively short) time begin to experience sexual pleasure themselves. Absolutely complete, moreover, they, just like a man using them as a woman, sail, as they say in the zone. And when they begin to experience pleasure, sometimes they themselves ask for it from prisoners - mostly thieves, the personification of a man, the owners of the zone. And in the will of many of them - a wife and children - who would they prefer to remain when they return? Do not know. Just as I will never understand this incredible adaptability of the crown of creation.
Often here he comes up to me, dragging his right leg noticeably, comes up, not being afraid of me alone in the zone, cock Lucy (all of them are given female names, the former ones are completely forgotten, they themselves give their female name if they are asked what their name is). He shoots me for a smoke. He is a little over eighteen years old, and huge Blue eyes, and a tortured, wary face. He left the prison only in pigs - he was lucky, they took him from the cell to the stage. And in Stolypin - an absurd accident: he had bacon with him, and someone asked him for a piece. He held it out mechanically, forgetting to warn him that he was a pig. Or perhaps hoping to hide it. They beat him there with boots, injuring his spine. Obviously, the nerves are injured, so he is now dragging his leg. He became a homosexual in the same place, in the carriage. I feel sorry for him to the point of pain, but there is nothing to help.
And about a week ago, a bald, nondescript little man, rather an old man, met me near the medical unit and remained standing when I, moving over, called him to sit on a bench. He was waiting for a doctor, obviously, and I was waiting for a friend from the same detachment as the old man. He refused - that means a rooster who knows that he should not sit down with the rest. A friend came and confirmed. And why so frail and old? Knocked? No, said the friend, even worse. He is in prison because, having lured with sweets and gingerbread, he opened the hymen of two sister girls of three and six years old with his finger. The mother accidentally discovered this by skin irritation, bathing them, and then going to the doctor. Their father tried to kill him, but they took him away. Tried, and here he is. The zone took over the rest of the punishment. Do you agree that this is fair? - asked a friend, knowing my undisguised pity for roosters. Absolutely fair, I replied, I myself would have taken part. I'll keep it in mind, the friend laughed happily.
Where pederasts sleep, shmons never happen. Because even the cops are sick of touching their things. For a reason, by the way, very funny: to take care of your future. Who knows their fate there: suddenly they will be fired from the internal troops or not even fired - all of a sudden you will go to jail for something? In a safe, true, place - in a special camp where the guardians of justice who have broken the law are kept. They have their own roosters there. And its adjusted information. Suddenly they find out that somewhere you once rummaged through the property of a pederast? You will definitely become a rooster. This was told to me by a young lieutenant-detachment, and such a yard spanked boy stepped out in him that it was pleasant and strange to suddenly see in him a safe person, and not a guardian dressed in a uniform.
In our prison world there are several castes, that is, groups of prisoners of different "dignity". There are four main castes, and there can be much more intermediate castes in each zone (by the way, among the convicts, this is exactly what they say: in prison, in the zone).
The first, highest caste - thieves; the second, the most numerous - men; the third, more or less large (depending on the zone) - goats; fourth, lower - roosters, outcasts. I don’t know if the outcasts can be considered a separate caste, but this is already an academic question. And we will assume that there are four castes. Let's start at the top.
Thieves.
They don't call themselves that. They replace the word “thieves” with “brothers”, “prisoners”, “tramps”, “tramps”, “crooks”, “travelers”, and half a century ago they called themselves “zhigans”, “people” .. These are professional criminals. Prisons and camps for them are obligatory stages of their professional career. Our underworld is a special world, it is very difficult for an outsider to get there, almost impossible. To commit a crime, the most professional one - to rob a bank, for example - does not mean to be accepted into this world. Any, even an accidental attitude to the structures of power, its political institutions (for example, membership in a party or in the Komsomol) forever closes the road to the “thieves' world” for a person, no matter how professional a criminal he later becomes. In addition to the “clean profile”, the thieves candidate must adhere to the “correct concepts”, over time these concepts also change (we will talk about this later). The elite of the underworld - thieves in law. This is not necessarily the name of those who earn their living by stealing. These are rather informal leaders, a kind of “initiates”, recognized by well-known authorities and received their recommendation, elected as “full members” at a gathering (at a “gangway”) of all thieves in a given prison, camp or region. According to various estimates, now there are only a few hundred thieves in law in the territory of the former Soviet Union. They are grouped into several groups.
If there is no real thief in the zone, the thieves' world tries to send a "watcher" there, that is, its representative, who will make sure that the convicts comply with the thieves' law and thieves' orders. Thieves' orders are usually a new rule created as a result of some dispute between convicts, or as a response to a new MIA action. From orders, the unwritten prison law continues to be constantly drawn up. The will of the beholder for other prisoners is the same law as the will of a thief. The beholder or the thief is surrounded by a group of helpers. This is the highest caste in the camp - thieves. Of course, in some camp there may not be a real thief or beholder. But in every camp there are people who consider themselves professionals, the prison is their home, and all its other inhabitants are aliens.
In the caste of thieves there is the main one - "godfather", "authority". Under the godfather - something like a presidential team, several thieves, each of whom does his own thing: one looks after the peasants, the other - for the "common fund" (this is the name of the general prison treasury), the third - for something else. They can also be called "authorities". The godfather and his entourage have a guard - "athletes", "fighters", "gladiators".
Not every prisoner can become a thug. First of all, he must be pure in the free life. Previously, for example, the path to the highest caste was closed to those who served in the army, who at least once went to work in the zone. Now these requirements have been abolished in some places. And in some zones, thieves can go to work - in that case, however, if this is not work as a foreman, contractor, etc., that is, if it does not give him at least some official power over the rest. Those who worked in the service sector, that is, were a waiter, a taxi driver, cannot become thieves. Former bosses too. There are still a lot of other requirements for applicants for the status of a thug. Each zone may have its own specific requirements.
Blatnye is real power in some zones, a power that is fighting against the official power, that is, with the administration of the zone. In addition to power, thieves have privileges - the right not to work, the right to keep everything they see fit from the common fund. The thieves also have responsibilities. The right godfather is obliged to ensure that the zone "warms up", that is, it receives food, tea, tobacco, vodka, and clothes through illegal means. He is also obliged to resolve disputes that arise between other prisoners, and in general not to allow any skirmishes between them, to ensure that no one is unjustly punished, offended, deprived. All this does not mean, of course, that for the godfather the correct order in the zone is more important than personal benefits. Often his concern for the lads is just an excuse to crush her and row everything for himself. But there are also enough zones where the godfather does not get out of the ShIZO (penalty isolator) and spends the entire term on bread and water so that the lads live peacefully and not starving.
Those who adhere to the correct concepts in the zone or in prison, the prison law, the administration calls denial, denial. Not only thieves get here, but everyone who actively resists the administration. It happens that a person simply fell out of favor with the detachment officer (the head of the detachment), refused the left work that he was forced to do. In general, the case here also means a lot.
Article 1883 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR - “Malicious disobedience to the lawful requirements of the administration of the ITU” was also invented specifically for denialism. This article is Andropov's, introduced in 1983. According to it, a person could be endlessly added to a term from one to five years. Many have been spun around. Now there is no such article in the criminal legislation. Article 321 of the Criminal Code Russian Federation is called “Disruption of the normal activities of institutions that ensure isolation from society”, but it refers to violence or the threat of violence against prison staff or other prisoners.
There are also zones where thieves work together with the administration, more precisely, with the operational unit. Sometimes special “gaskets” are made - the newly arrived authoritative thieves opers are talked into cooperation and begin to help him in everything, the former thieves are discredited or removed from the zone, and the new “watcher” is assisted (of course, behind the scenes). He becomes the main one, everything rolls for him: vodka, marijuana, tea, smoking. And for this, he brings to the zone the order that the administration needs.
It is this type of thieves that is now most common in the zones. The underworld has changed no less than the big world. Once upon a time, thieves could not have documents, sign papers, get married, go to work in the camp. Today, the underworld is actively involved in business and politics. How can you manage without papers in business? What is a politician without a family, that is, without hostages? Tumbleweed, no one will believe him ... Starting from about the 70s, the honorary, for the underworld, title of thief in law began to be bought and, more importantly, sold. There was even a name for such newly appeared thieves in law - “oranges”. These people, in general, are no longer as ideological as the former thieves. Those used to die, went to the fires, but refused to kiss the knife to the bitch (there was such a way of squeezing during bitch war). Honor and respect is also a great value. Well, then concrete things began to be respected - money, the ability to make money. Mores have changed in the underworld - they have changed in prison.
Guys
This is the next cast. It consists of random, in general, people in the zone. The wife jailed one for drinking, the other stole some trifle, he is in jail for a fight, and this one was sewn up - he got under the arm. After all, in general, from fifty to ninety percent of convicts in our country are people who would simply be fined in some Western country, and that's it. There, after all, prisons only bring losses, but in our country they have been profitable for many years, that's the whole point. This is only if you consider legal profit. And how the camp administration profited in the zones, and its bosses, and the mafia, and the same freemen who go to work in the camps, and those who live near the camps - it’s better not to tell.
Today, the camps in Russia also bring mostly losses, unemployment there is cleaner than in the wild. Slave labor could replace free labor only when relatively simple things were done in the wild that did not require initiative, creative imagination. These times have passed - only those who react instantly survive in the market. But our criminal justice system continues to live by the inertia of the Gulag times. And many people are still imprisoned in vain, to the detriment of them, and society, and the victims, whom they cannot even compensate for the damage - unemployment. These people form the caste of men.
The men do not claim any power in the zone, they do not serve anyone, they do not cooperate with the administration. They cannot interfere in the affairs of the thieves. The men do not have the right to vote in their "showdowns". But there are, of course, respected people among them, to whom the thieves listen, not to mention the rest of the peasants. In a word, men are prisoners who are going to return to normal life after serving their term.
Goats
These are open employees of the camp administration. Those who agreed to accept some position - supply manager, head of the club, librarian, commandant of the zone. Those who put on "jambs" - an armband. Those who joined the SPP - the "offense prevention section", that is, the internal police of the camp. They are also called "bitches". "Suchenny" - agreed to work for the cops. The administration calls the goats "an asset", "persons who have firmly embarked on the path of correction." Of course, the convicts treat them badly. Traitors are treated badly everywhere, and if you consider that in each zone there is a war going on between the administration and prisoners - sometimes "cold", sometimes real - such an attitude will become clear.
They get into the goats in different ways: some of their own free will, someone will be forced, someone will be intimidated. In some zones, the arrived stage is generally given padded jackets with already sewn bandages. You put on - you get bored. If you don't put it on, if you rip off the bandage, they will put you in a punishment cell, and upon leaving you will receive the same padded jacket, the same offer, and the same punishment cell for refusing. And so many months in a row. Some endure - through hunger, through tuberculosis. Well, if you can’t stand it, you will become a goat. You will do the same as all the goats - to be on duty at the checkpoint between the "lokalki" - fences inside the zone, or between the "housing" and "industrial" - the residential and industrial parts of the zone. You will be "godfather", the head of the operational unit, the same convicts as yourself, to hand over. And even if you do not enroll in the SPP, but you will, for example, work in the library, you are still a goat, and the lads will not accept you. There is no upward movement in the zone at all, from the lower caste to the higher one.
You can greet the goats, communicate with them, touch them, but they are not allowed into the common fund. In the camps, by the way, there is such a legend: there is a secret order according to which, in the event of war, all goats should be shot as potential traitors. But this, of course, is only a legend. Although during the war the German punitive detachments were not made up of army soldiers and not even always of the SS, but primarily of the policemen. The Germans were not so insane as to corrupt their army with such deeds.
Roosters
The last caste is COCKS, they are also "offended", "lowered", "faggots" and so on. This is a caste of outcasts, untouchables, outcasts, among them are passive homosexuals. At the same level in the zone there is an intermediate caste - "pigs", "devils". The only difference is that they are not used as passive buggers - they are simply untouchables.
Homosexuality has always existed in prisons, it was, as a rule, a voluntary matter. But from some time - according to some reports, from the reform of the "corrective labor" system of 1961 - a custom began to spread in the zones: punishment in the form of forcible conversion of the guilty into a pederast. Some veterans of the Gulag believe that this custom was invented by the opera - it became their weapon in the fight against the negative. There is a similar custom among some backward tribes in Africa - there, boys who have not passed the test of initiation into men are called women's names, dressed in women's clothes and resettled in the backyards of the camp. That is, they make them as if they were not men. This is also found in some species of monkeys - the leader of the pack, as a sign of victory over the delinquent male, rapes him.
In the right terms, there is a law: "x ... m do not punish." That is, the prison law expressly forbids punishing anyone in this way. If a person is found guilty - and only guilty of prison life, and not of free life - you can get a fine from him - a pack of Belomor, a million rubles, etc. It is possible, if they decide so at the disassembly, to beat him, break his bones, and finally kill him. But you can't drop it.
I have already said that the omitted appeared in the community of prisoners after the reform of 1961. Before this reform, there was one type of camp for all prisoners. The reform divided the camps into regimes: general, reinforced, strict, special. As a result, the first-timers, who were sent to general regime camps, were separated from the repeat offenders. Those ended up in other regimes - so that the pioneers "do not have a bad influence." Thus, the pioneers were also separated from the experience of forced cohabitation developed by many generations, which the recidivists, among other things, owned. This experience made it possible (we are talking about the second half of the fifties) at the very least, but to live in peace. In the former camps, moreover, people of all ages were imprisoned. And the struggle for supremacy there was to some extent mitigated by the existence a large number elderly and old people. Of course, they could not be afraid and not respected, but still there are things that people do not do or try not to do in the presence of elders - this sits in every person. And now imagine: hordes of young men (and pioneers, as a rule, people of the same age, 20-22 years old), whom nature itself doomed to constant competition and finding out who is more important, stronger, smarter. Naturally, there will always be a squabble between them, since they cannot at least for a while disperse, relax, communicate with those with whom it makes no sense to compete - with old people, women, children. By the way, things are even worse at a youngster precisely because there are no elders there. Even the prison administration understands this and put young "father" - an adult prisoner - into the cells. And these "bati", it happens, youngsters are robbed, which is why the position of "bati" is considered mowing.
Most of all people are lowered in areas for youngsters, that is, where they do not know the prison law, albeit terrible and cruel, but the only one under which people can remain people, and simply survive. After a youngster, prisons give the most omitted. For the same reason that the residence permit is arranged - they believe that this is the way it should be. In the camps, they are lowered much less frequently than in prisons. The tougher the regime, the less often. In general, the harder the regime in the camp, the easier it is for those who sit in it.
They say it's better to die than to become a "cock". They are treated very cruelly: they make them live in trees, eat mice, they put light bulbs up their asses - whoever is into it. But again, it depends on the mode. They do the wildest things with them on a general basis, not to mention the youngster. Here on the strict it is easier for them. Every prisoner knows his place there. Usually, on a strict regime, and indeed in any correct zone, a cock is just a rejected person. He has everything separate, and he does not dare to touch anyone. But if he was offended, he was treated unfairly, he can complain to the authorities, and they will protect him, because experienced people understand: a muzzled by his own will go to seek protection from strangers. That is, he will work for the administration, knock.
The roosters have separate places, separate dishes, separate work - a revenge parade ground, wash toilets. You can't take anything from them. And to give, to throw, so as not to accidentally touch, you can. Although there are exceptions. When they are "used", it is not considered a defiling contact. In the ShIZO, sometimes it is only possible to pass something through a rooster - if between the ShIZO and the residential area lies a "prohibition", a forbidden strip. Only the one who levels it can be on it, that is, the roosters - this is their job. It is through them that the heat is transmitted. It is believed that in such a situation, neither the things that passed through the hands of the rooster, nor the one who received them, are "stained", that is, they are not defiled.
On the prison regime, in a colony of special and strict regime, as a rule, there are not many roosters - from one to five percent. On the enhanced and general regime, their share can reach up to 10-12%, and on the youngster - up to 20. The milder the regime, the more of them. In some zones there are their whole barracks - "monkeys", "offended". And in normal zones, they just sleep at the entrance to the barracks and don’t go further. Roosters usually have their own "godfather" - the head rooster. This is a powerful figure. After all, he can order some rooster to kiss, say, someone in front of everyone. Of course, a rooster can be killed for this, but the one he kisses automatically becomes a rooster himself. The chief rooster is at the same time an intermediary between the caste of the untouchables and the entire camp community. All claims of the omitted, all their proposals are brought to the authoritative (skhodnyak) through this leader. Through him, this group of outcasts and formally withdrawn from normal life of people is controlled by authoritative ones. The chief cock is an optional figure, sometimes there are two leaders (“folder” and “mother”) or even more. It should be noted that the leaders of the roosters are people who are very well informed about the inner life of the zone. They know many intrigues, they can know who the real “watcher” is (often a prisoner who appears as a “watcher” is a dummy figure, and the real leader of the zone is not highlighted), and much more.
Roosters are for life. If a rooster arrives in a zone where no one knows him - when he is transferred there, or from the wild, if he is imprisoned a second time - he is obliged to inform the lads about his status. It is useless to hide it, sooner or later the rooster's past becomes known, and then the opened roosters are punished, beaten, often killed. After all, it is believed that such a rooster "zashkvaril" all those who considered him an equal.
From the beginning of the 1990s, since prison customs began to spread rapidly in the wild, the downtrodden began to come from there, with a ready-made status.
By the way, there are not so many passive homosexuals and “prostitutes” among the lowered ones, contrary to popular belief. Basically, as I said, they get downgraded for the grossest violations of the prison law, for example, for squealing, for ratting (stealing from one's own), for lawlessness, non-payment of card debt. Those who themselves lowered or were the godfather of the cell in which someone was lowered without guilt are also very likely candidates for roosters. However, they can drop for anything. For beautiful eyes they can lower. It is difficult to rape an adult man - he will resist. Therefore, there are a number of replacement rituals. For example, they touch the lips of a sleeping person x...m. Or they wet a towel with sperm and pass it over the face. Sometimes pioneers are deceived: let me fuck you - you will get a pack of cigarettes. After all, there are such smokers that they can live without water and bread, but not without smoking. So they are sold for a smoke, or they just picked up bulls from the ground - they squashed themselves.
They can promise both support and protection for “services” - anything. It's called "talk on x ... d". Such a deception is considered a big joint: these deceivers themselves are then lowered along with rapists and thugs. They can - and this is also the biggest problem - set up an inexperienced novice convict who liked someone. Let's say they take all the chairs in the barbershop except for one, stale. A man, not feeling trouble, enters the hairdresser's and sits down on the only free chair. "Countryman, where did you sit down ?! - What is it? - Yes, this is a place for fagots! - But I didn't know ... - Well, you never know, I didn't know!"
Card debtors often fall into the lowered ones. A person who has not paid a debt (and even in the form of a smoke) in the zone can simply be killed - this is not a will, they seriously collect for debts there. And so, in order to avoid punishment, a person voluntarily becomes a rooster. He takes his mattress at night and moves to the cock's bunk. Now, like any rooster, nothing can be taken from him.
- If the surname of the convict is Petukhov, for example, does this affect his position in the zone?
The surname itself has no effect. Now, if a person is not liked by others, it will ruin his life.
- I heard that unscrupulous people or those suffering from skin diseases usually fall into the lowered ones.
Lies. Or a typical sample and "Fan Fanych's research". Prison law seen through a peephole.
Skin diseases cannot be the cause of "lowering". Of course, the leper himself will sleep separately and drink from his mug so as not to infect the lads. But there will be no rejection from the lads - he is its full member.
As for the unscrupulous, this is already a consequence, not a cause. It is very difficult for a rooster to observe personal hygiene, but he cannot use a common washbasin. Yes, and he does the dirty work. Uncleanliness is also a violation of prison law. But only for this a person is unlikely to be lowered. After all, it happens all the time - where there is an impure body, there are impure thoughts and deeds, or simply disrespect for others. Well, where there is dirt, there are skin diseases - this is natural.
To finish with the castes, it is necessary to mention a few more groups. In addition to "pigs" and "devils", there are also "sixes" in the zones - servants. Too weak or helpful people fall into the sixes. Both in prisons and in camps, excessive obsequiousness is not in honor. If you are asked to do something, say, wash someone else's socks, and you agree, you will be a six. Even if you do it for a fee. In prison, it is customary to serve yourself. He who cannot endure difficulties, who begins to do and fulfill everything for a piece of bread, does not deserve respect. But, you understand, this does not mean that you should not fulfill any requests at all. It all depends on the situation in which the request is fulfilled, and on who fulfills it and how. Sometimes even the person who served a mug of water becomes a six.
Other passive homosexuals differ from roosters - personal lovers of thieves, all these Jackdaws, Svetka, Masha. They are not beaten, they are not kept in a black body, on the contrary, they are excused from work - so that they are soft. But they are not allowed too much either. It is best not to get involved with these individuals.
"Snoops" keep apart in the zones - orderlies in detachments, cleaners in headquarters, canteens, medical units, etc. This is also an unrespected public, something like goats of the last analysis.
They say that in the prison and the camp they especially do not favor those who went to prison for rape. What other articles, except for 131 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (rape), are considered shameful? If I sat down on any of the "dirty" articles, is there any point in hiding it?
By "rape" in fact, the zone has become accustomed to. There are scarier articles out there. For example, for evading the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Also for homosexuality, for indecent acts against minors.
As for rape, the attitude towards those who sat down under this article is not always the same. It happens, after all, that there was no rape - they just wanted to imprison a person and imprisoned him, albeit under an article for rape (in the old Criminal Code it was the famous 117th, “youth” article). This is a fairly common case.
Previously, articles for vagrancy, for hooliganism, for living without a residence permit were also considered not prestigious. In general, respect in the criminal world is enjoyed by those who do their “work” without corpses, without violence, and so on.
I don't know if I should hide my article. Usually such things become known over time.
The main feature of this caste is passive homosexuality: voluntary or forced.
But not every cock regularly practices homosexual relationships.
Roosters in prison - who are they?
Omitted within prison life are an untouchable caste. How do the downtrodden live in prisons?
They live separately from full-fledged members of the prison community: under the bed (“under the bunk”), near the toilet.
In large camps, separate barracks are allocated for them, which are called cockerels.
Downtrodden enjoy individual items life.
Holes are made in their dishes so that no one accidentally confuses “sandy” plates and spoons with normal ones.
The life of those lowered in prison is very hard. Roosters do the dirtiest jobs.
There are several theories about the origin of this caste.
According to the most common version, the downtrodden stood out as a separate prison layer after the 1961 reform.
She divided the camps according to the severity of the detention regime: hardened convicts, recidivists began to live separately from the pioneers (you can find out what types of prisons exist in Russia today and what regimes there are).
The pioneers are, as a rule, young people striving for competition in all spheres of life, they did not know the foundations of the prison, and in the absence of the supervision of more experienced prisoners, their life became more and more wild over time.
Any prisoner can become omitted.
These include:
- People who practiced homosexual relationships in the wild.
- Prisoners who ended up in the MLS for the rape of minor children.
- People whose relatives work in law enforcement.
Reference: in addition to roosters, there is a caste of devils in the prison community. With lowered devils, the status of untouchables is related, but they are not used for sexual pleasures.
Automatic lowering in prisons is practiced less and less. The attitude towards people who have sat down on "cock" articles will not be good, but they will not be shown sexual violence against them either.
Why is it called a rooster in prisons? There is no exact answer to this question. Probably, this name comes from the verb "cock", which denoted the process of rape.
What are they for?
Contrary to the stereotype the proportion of voluntary homosexuals among the offended is low.
Most prisoners become roosters for misconduct that is not related to the sexual sphere.
The following is what they lower in prisons for. Usually these are various serious violations of the rules of prison life:
- Non-payment of card debt. Unpaid debts in prison are paid in blood, and the only alternative that saves lives is the provision of sex services.
- Body contact with another rooster outside of sexual intercourse. After such incidents, this rooster is very severely punished (up to murder), but the person with whom he contacted never ceases to be lowered.
Offended, driven to despair, often use this for revenge. Sometimes physical contact is not necessary - it is enough to spend the night in a cockerel.
- Weakness of character, inability to stand up for oneself. For some things (for example, for sending to ...) it is necessary to ask for an answer. If the offended party does not do this, then it may lose all its authority and go into the category of the offended.
- Snitching.
- Theft of property from other prisoners.
- Lowering another person without a serious reason.
- Cute appearance, high voice, cuteness - these factors increase the likelihood of obtaining a residence permit in the cock's corner.
Lowering can also be carried out by order of the prison administration to remove objectionable prisoners from prison life.
The most popular way is to lock the convict overnight in a cockerel.
But the prison community has a more loyal attitude towards such downtrodden people.
In the 2000s and beyond, there has been a rejection of lowering by rape. This is due to increased control over the internal regulations of correctional institutions, and more attention has been paid to the protection of the rights of prisoners.
Briefly about how not to become a rooster in prison:
- Watch your words. Do not disclose unnecessary details of sexual and personal life, do not offend anyone without reason.
- Have pride. To be able to stand up for yourself and request a response from the offender.
- Minimize contact with roosters. This includes refraining from participating in their beatings and rapes.
Even in prison, one must remain human, and humanity is valued there. - Do not steal from your own, do not knock, do not cooperate with the administration.
Conclusion
Now you know how gays live in prisons. Such a phenomenon as the presence of a caste of the lowered in prison is a wild phenomenon, a relic of the country's difficult past. But, despite the fact that over time, the internal orders of correctional institutions are softened, this layer still exists, and this sad fact has to be put up with.
"Lowered", "leaky", "pierced", "set aside", "roosters" and so on. They are given female names. Prisoners with "low social status", as they are called in official documents, have many names. There are also many ways to get into the "offended". And there is not a single opportunity to rise from this suit (caste of prisoners) back.
Roosters are not born, they are made
Probably, about 80% of conversations, jokes, jokes, threats and insults in the zone are connected with the topic of "lowered". To be honest, convicts love this kind of talk. They help prisoners feel that things are not so bad for them, because there are those who are much, much worse. And over whom even the last "horse" (a servant of the prisoners) has power. In general, the worst thing that can happen to a prisoner is the transition to the category of "roosters", and this can happen relatively easily.
From a misspoken word or an insult that was not answered, to certain actions, any carelessness can negatively affect social status.
I had a friend who, without thinking, said in public that he was engaged in petting with his girlfriend. In fact, there is nothing incomprehensible in this word, but in the zone there is Golden Rule: speak out in simple words so that the last fool can understand, since any misunderstood term can be used against the speaker. And if this term is somehow connected with sex and the speaker is "sharpened", then such a statement can be a direct road to the "harem" (to "roosters", in other words).
This is how it happened with a friend: he blurted out without thinking, then quarreled with the people to whom he blurted it out, and those, remembering the petting, tried to prove that the acquaintance had a direct road to the “lowered”. And this despite the fact that the guy immediately explained that there was nothing wrong with this word and that it was just a term. He was lucky: then serious people stood up for him, because he would not have solved this problem on his own, since he had just arrived at the camp. After this story, a friend was warned that in no case should you talk about your personal life in the zone.
There are a lot of prohibitions for intimate life in the prison world. In fact, the only sure way not to get into the “jamb” is to engage exclusively in classic sex, touching nothing and nowhere else. It is better not to engage in oral sex at all, since it only allows the opportunity to rent a prostitute or find a girl with whom you will never kiss. Naturally, with this approach, unfamiliar terms from sexology are automatically classified as "dumb" (in this case shameful, "cock").
This does not mean that no one in freedom was engaged in all sorts of "bad" things - they simply keep silent about it.
You can also call in the "harem" for not responding to some insults. For example, if they sent three letters and the person was silent, it means that he is going there.
But a convict can become a "rooster" for seemingly ordinary, everyday actions. It is impossible to contact with the "separated". Everything that the “lowered” touches is immediately “stuffed” (that is, it goes into the category of things for “roosters”). This rule does not apply only to "prohibitions" (things prohibited in the zone), which are sometimes hidden from the "separated". They told how some of them carried mobile phones from the living area to the work area right in shorts. And the convicts were absolutely not embarrassed. Still "lowered" can be beaten (with sticks or feet) and used for a second purpose.
I was told that in some areas, especially for the "roosters", so that they did not take hold of the handles, nails were driven into the doors. They have their own tables, bunks, toilet bowls, faucets, everything of their own that "muzhiks" cannot touch. Therefore, if a convict takes food, cigarettes from a “lowered” person, drinks tea with him or sits down to eat at his table, then he himself will fall into the lower Zon caste. Of course, if this is not done "out of the blue" (when a person does not know that there is a "cock" in front of him, or that the thing is "stuffed").
This is not California
The two main duties of the "offended" are: to sexually satisfy the prisoners and to do all the dirty work in the zone. They can be beaten for educational purposes and so, for the soul. I was told cases when the "lowered" were woken up with a foot in the face so that they would go to clean the toilet.
The administration ambiguously looks at the "cock" question. The police officers who have been working in the MLS for a long time are imbued with "concepts" to the marrow of their bones and, accordingly, treat the "lowered" a little differently than other convicts. On the other hand, on duty, the guards are obliged to prevent any manifestation of physical or psychological violence among the prisoners, so they are trying in every possible way to make sure that the "roosters" are not severely beaten and humiliated. And recently they have especially succeeded in this: they have almost completely stopped beating the "separated".
In the zone where I was sitting, even at the beginning of my term, the “offended” was obliged to cling to the wall when a “man” walked along the corridor.
If there is no place where to put the "lowered", then he can sleep right under the bunks. At the stages, in the transit chambers, all the "roosters" settle down either to the door or to the toilet. In general, in order to survive in the zone, being a "rooster", you need to have a certain type of personality, since not everyone can endure the constant humiliation, beatings, harassment and the complete destruction of human dignity that the "offended" are subjected to.
True, the "lowered" ones are no less cruel. The old-timers told me that they allegedly decided to conduct an experiment in one of the colonies, and the "roosters" from all over the zone were settled in one detachment so that no one would touch them, and they could live in peace. So, before the policemen had time to do this, the “offended” created in the detachment exactly the same hierarchy as in the entire zone: there appeared their own “thieves”, “muzhiks” and “downtrodden”. But, unlike the rest of the zone, the hierarchy was maintained in this detachment, allegedly due to inhuman cruelty (in principle, this is understandable). The experiment had to be stopped.
I don’t know how it was in other camps, but in our zone, “roosters” could always be distinguished externally. Not only in their clothes, they had some kind of special imprint on their faces. It was clear that these people got into the "harem" not in vain.
However, despite all the beatings and humiliation, the "lowered" have certain rights and social guarantees.
Firstly, all "roosters" are divided into workers and non-workers. Workers provide sexual services, non-workers, respectively, do not. And no one has the right to force the "lowered" to do "this" against his will - this is chaos. Most often, intimate services are provided by mutual desire.
Secondly, you have to pay for sex. If the prisoner does not pay the "broken" for sex, then he does it out of love. And who can have love with a "rooster"? That's right, the same one. In general, in terms of payment for cleaning or for other services, the "lowered" were not "thrown": they paid in full size and always on time, because they are already offended by life, much more to scoff at! Therefore, very often prisoners with a low social status were in material terms much better than prisoners with a higher status.
In general, in relation to the "roosters" the essence of the prisoner is manifested. ZK are divided into two camps, those who use the services of "leaky" with pleasure, not seeing any problems in this, and those who avoid such things, considering them active form homosexuality. There are not so many firsts in the zone, especially recently, when the police have actively taken up the eradication of intimate services. I don't know how it is in other camps, but in our colony the administration has achieved tremendous success in this matter. We have convicts, before turning to the "rooster" with an offer to have sex, they thought three times: do they need it.
Not bad
But here's what's interesting. Despite the poor situation of the "offended" in the zone, some prisoners consciously and absolutely voluntarily went to the "harem". In my memory, several people specifically took something from the "offended" or sat down to eat at their table. Some did it out of protest against something, some simply could not stand the nerves. But there were convicts who, during their time in prison, began to understand that they liked sex with men, and in all its manifestations.
It always seemed to me that such a cruel treatment of "roosters" arose as a defense against the possible spread of sodomy. Psychologists have long proved that so-called false homosexuality arises in closed same-sex groups; Freud called this phenomenon acquired perversion. Being long time among men, willy-nilly, you begin to look at some of them as possible objects of desire. No, of course, everyone remains heterosexual, but women in the distance and over time become a somewhat abstract concept, so for many, attention switches to "their own". Someone hides it even from themselves, but there are those who are not at all embarrassed by this state of affairs. There were cases when, before a long meeting with his wife, a convict went to the "rooster" in order to "throw off tension and not lose face on a date."
I remember I was told about how true love arose between one "man" and a "rooster". They even planned to live together after their release, and the "lowered" was going to change sex for the sake of his beloved. Most likely, after they were released, these plans were forgotten, since such thoughts disappear as soon as the convict sees real women around him. The zone is gradually forgotten, but the sediment remains, some for life.
In modern society, it is not customary to divide people into any groups, estates and castes. However, this rule does not apply to places of deprivation of liberty, where for many decades there has been a strict classification of convicts into peculiar groups (or, as they say in the zone, suits).
Prison suits
The suits in the zone are the division of all prisoners into peculiar groups that differ from each other in prison status, rights and concepts.
Absolutely in any prison and colony there is a clear distinction between all prisoners into certain groups or suits: “thieves”, “muzhiks”, “goats” and “roosters”. There are also so-called intermediate groups, which vary depending on the specific place of deprivation of liberty. Such "intermediate" castes include "roosters", "lowered", "offended" and others.
The suits in the zone are quite closed groups, and it is almost impossible to move from one caste to another.
"Authorities" of the zone
The most significant, important and honorable suit in the zone are "thieves". This caste is the smallest, and it’s not easy to get into it. So, who is this "thug"?
"Thieves" - this is real, almost unlimited power in the zone. It is the members of this group who establish unwritten rules of conduct in places of deprivation of liberty, monitor order in the zone, resolve conflict situations that arise between prisoners, and punish the "guilty" to the fullest extent of the prison law.
A special group of "thieves" are the so-called thieves in law. These are recognized. Moreover, they do not have to trade in thefts. A "thief in law" is a person who has an impeccable criminal reputation, the right concepts and strictly observes
If answering the question about , who is “thieves”, then we can say that he behaves “correctly” not only in the zone, but also did not have any “jambs” at large. For example, "thieves" should not serve in the army, in the wild they should not have held leadership positions or worked in the service sector (taxi drivers, waiters). In Soviet times, such authorities were forbidden to have a family and be a member of any political party.
The most important
The leader of the "thieves" is the "godfather" - a recognized criminal authority. If there is no such person in the zone, then a “watcher” is appointed - a prisoner who performs the functions of a leader.
"Godfather" and his entourage (that is, "thieves") have special privileges in the zone. They may not work, leaving for themselves from the “common fund” everything they see fit.
IN modern world many "thieves" in the zone interact with the administration and establish those orders that are beneficial to the leadership of the colony. Instead of “thieves”, comfortable conditions of detention are created (they secretly receive alcohol, marijuana, telephones and other benefits). Although this does not correspond to thieves' concepts, market relations in our time also reign in the zone.
Who is a "man"?
"Guys" - this is perhaps the most numerous and neutral group of prisoners. It includes prisoners who received a term for committing minor crimes. As a rule, these are absolutely random people in prison: having got into the zone once, they try to free themselves as soon as possible and return to normal life in the wild.
Among the "muzhiks" there are, of course, such prisoners who are respected by the "thieves" and even listen to their opinion.
This group of prisoners is considered neutral and quite numerous. And if we talk about who a “man” is, this is the prisoner who, at the end of his term, will forget everything like “ horrible dream” and will try not to return to the zone anymore.
"Goats" are...
If it is honorable to belong to the two suits described above, then to fall into the caste of "goats" means to put yourself against the rest of the prisoners. As a rule, those prisoners who, according to own will(and in some cases under duress) began to cooperate with the administration of the correctional institution.
So, if a prisoner agreed to take the position of a prison librarian or supply manager, then he automatically fell into the caste of "goats". Convicts belonging to this suit actively cooperate with the prison authorities, fulfilling all their instructions. In this regard, the rest of the prisoners treat them as traitors.
Such a situation deprives the "goats" of the right to participate in prison squabbles, they are not allowed to the "common fund", they do not have the right to vote. Meanwhile, you can greet representatives of this suit, you can touch them and, if you wish, you can communicate with them.
You don't wish on your enemy
The suits on the zone are unchanged. You cannot move from a lower caste to a more authoritative one. So, a "goat" will never become a "man" or "thieves". But you can get into the lowest caste.
A suit like "rooster" is a real nightmare for a prisoner. The prisoners who fell into this caste do not live easily in the zone, to put it mildly. This group of prisoners is also called "offended", "lowered", "untouchable". This suit includes passive homosexuals and prisoners punished by having sexual contact with them. Moreover, there may not be sexual intercourse itself: the prisoner can simply be swiped with the genital organ on the lips, and from that moment on he will be considered a “rooster”.
Representatives of this suit are outcasts: you can’t touch them, you can’t take anything from them. "Roosters" use separate dishes, have a separate sleeping place (as a rule, at the entrance to the cell). It is not customary to talk to them. "Roosters" are forbidden to approach the rest of the prisoners closer than three steps. It is they who do the dirtiest work in the prison - they clean toilets, wash the parade ground.
However, when "roosters" are "used" (that's what they say in the zone), this is not considered any kind of defiling contact.
There is also an ominous "tradition" - to make holes in plates, spoons and mugs of "roosters". In order for a convict belonging to this caste to eat or drink, it is necessary to plug the holes with your fingers. And this is the most harmless humiliation of those to which "roosters" are subjected.
Prison laws are very strict and cruel. Therefore, the slightest deviation from the established norms of behavior inevitably leads to punishment. So, having become a “rooster” once, a person is deprived of the right to human relations in prison and is subjected to humiliation until the end of his term. Not everyone can withstand this, so many prisoners who fall into the “rooster” caste commit suicide.
Sometimes it happens
The above suits are available in all zones and prisons. However, some have their own specific, so-called intermediate castes.
There are especially many such castes in the zone where juvenile delinquents are kept. On the "youngster", in addition to the already indicated castes, there are such suits as:
- "forshmaki", which includes prisoners who have committed some minor offense in the zone due to ignorance of the rules and norms of behavior;
- "devils" - that is, those prisoners who were convicted of stealing from their cellmates;
- "sneakers" who act as servants;
- "washerwomen", "butterers", "shortage" and others.
In some adult zones, peculiar podcasts are common. For example, “thieves”, which includes prisoners who make up the “retinue” of “thieves” (while they themselves are not thieves). Or the "scoundrels" caste, which includes "thieves" prisoners who have committed some heinous act.
Live "by definition"
Whatever suit the prisoner belongs to, he is obliged to comply with the Zon's concepts. Concepts are the established norms of behavior of a prisoner in places of deprivation of liberty. Strict observance of these unwritten rules helps to avoid the occurrence of conflict, and sometimes life-threatening situations.
Prison laws (or concepts) are very similar to the norms of life in freedom. The paradox lies in the fact that often prisoners who violated the law in the wild (for example, by stealing) strictly adhere to the rule “do not steal” in places of deprivation of liberty.
The main Zon concepts boil down to the following: do not “knock” and do not steal from your own (that is, from the same prisoners), do not let “words go to the wind” (if you threatened someone, you must punish; otherwise, they will punish you for chatting) .
You can’t interfere in other people’s affairs and conversations in the zone, impose your opinion, lie and swear (since the demand for any spoken word in prison is much greater than in freedom).
You should not be greedy in places of deprivation of liberty: it is customary to share with cellmates. And, of course, you should not put yourself above the rest, because this can lead to dire consequences.
Strange Norms
Some areas have very strange laws. This is especially true of colonies that contain juvenile offenders. For example, you can’t pick up anything from the floor, you can’t finish smoking a cigarette after prisoners who belong to lower prison castes.
There are prisons in which they can only be lowered for the fact that the prisoner went to the toilet and did not wash his hands or mended his socks.
There are also such colonies in which it is customary to wash in the bath with two washcloths - one to the waist, the second - for everything else. A towel, which is commonly called a “waffle”, is considered a “checkered towel” in the zone. And the prisoner who does not know this rule will not be very well.
Red zone. Zone "black"
According to suits, not only the prisoners themselves are divided, but also the places of their detention. All zones are divided into "black" and "red".
"Red" - these are the prisons in which tough "Cop" concepts prevail. In such prisons, the interaction of prisoners with the administration of the correctional institution is strongly encouraged. Life here proceeds according to the rules of the zone management.
"Black" prisons (which are the majority in Russia) are those correctional institutions in which everything is built on thieves' suits. Here, the suits in the zone are of great importance. Collaborating with the administration of such a colony is considered “zapadno”.
In the "black" zones, prisoners who "knock" the leadership are referred to the "goat" caste (they are also called "red"). "Red" in the zone will never be able to live in peace, since he will cause hatred among all other prisoners and will be considered a traitor.
Finally
For many decades, clear and strict rules and norms for the behavior of prisoners have been formed in places of deprivation of liberty. Violation of the established rules leads prisoners to punishment, which, most often, consists in transferring to the lowest prison caste.
And if for an ordinary law-abiding citizen such a punishment seems childish, then for the inhabitants of the zone it is the most severe and severe punishment. After all, a safe and calm serving of a term directly depends on what suit the prisoner belongs to.
Though modern society and worldview brought in prison life many innovations, there are things that still remain unchanged - these are prison castes (suits), thieves' laws and concepts.
