Settlement colony. Felling. Lafa for roosters. Free women are deadly. "Roosters", "offended" and "downcast". Homosexuals in prisons How do working cocks live in the zone

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 the prison, in the zone).

The first, highest caste is thieves; the second, the most numerous, are men; the third, more or less large (depending on the zone) - goats; the fourth, the lowest - roosters, rejected. I don't know if the outcast can be considered a separate caste, but this is already an academic question. And we will consider that there are four castes. Let's start at the top.

Thieves.

They don't call themselves that. They replace the word “thug” with “lads”, “prisoners”, “tramps”, “tramps”, “crooks”, “traveling”, and half a century ago they called themselves “Zhigans”, “people” .. These are professional criminals. Prisons and camps for them are mandatory stages in 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 casual attitude to the structures of power, its political institutions (for example, membership in a party or in the Komsomol) forever closes a person's path to the "thieves' world," no matter how professional a criminal he later becomes. In addition to a “blank questionnaire,” a criminal candidate must adhere to the “correct concepts”; over time, these concepts also change (we will talk about this later). The elite of the underworld are thieves in law. This is not necessarily the name for those who make their living by stealing. Rather, they are informal leaders, a kind of “initiate”, recognized by well-known authorities and who received their recommendation, elected as “active members” at a gathering (on 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 on 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 there an "overseer", 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 kind of dispute between convicts, or as a response to a new MIA action. The unwritten prison law continues to be constantly drawn up from the orders. The will of the beholder for other convicts is the same law as the will of a thief. The watchman or the thief is surrounded by a group of helpers. This is the highest caste in the camp - the thieves. Of course, in some camp there may not be a real thief or a watcher. 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 a chief - "godfather", "authority". Under the plowman, there is 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 prisoner's 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 a free life. Previously, for example, the path to the higher caste was closed for those who served in the army, who at least once went to work in the zone. Now these requirements have been canceled in some places. And in some zones, thieves can go to work - in that case, however, if this is not a job as a foreman, a contractor, etc., that is, if it does not give him at least some official authority over the rest. Those who worked in the service sector at large, that is, were a waiter, a taxi driver, cannot become thieves either. So did the former bosses. There are many other requirements for applicants for the status of a thug. Each zone may have its own, special requirements.

Thieves are real power in some zones, the power that fights 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 for themselves from the common fund whatever they deem necessary. The thieves also have responsibilities. The right godfather is obliged to ensure that the zone is “warmed up”, that is, it receives food, tea, tobacco, vodka, and clothes through illegal routes. He is also obliged to resolve disputes arising between other prisoners, and generally 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 under him. But there are also enough zones where the godfather does not get out of the punishment cell (punishment cell) and spends the entire term on bread and water in order for the lads to live peacefully and not from hand to mouth, there are also enough.

Those who adhere to the correct concepts of the prison law in the zone or in the prison, are called by the administration a denial, denial. This includes not only thieves, but everyone who actively resists the administration. It happens that a person simply fell out of favor with the detachment officer (chief of the detachment), abandoned the left-handed work that he was forced to do. In general, the case also means a lot here.

Especially for the denial was invented and article 1883 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR - "Malignant disobedience to the legal requirements of the administration of the correctional institution." This is Andropov's article, introduced in 1983. According to it, a person could endlessly be added to a period from one to five years. Many were promoted. Now there is no such article in the criminal law. Article 321 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is called “Disorganization of the normal activities of institutions providing isolation from society,” but it refers to violence or the threat of violence against employees of places of detention or other prisoners.

There are also zones where thieves work in concert with the administration, more precisely, with the operative unit. Sometimes special "pads" are made - the newly arrived authoritative thug of operas is talked into cooperation and begins to help him in everything, the former thieves are discredited or removed from the zone, and the new "overseer" is assisted (of course, behind the scenes). He becomes the main one, he rolls everything: vodka, marijuana, tea, smoke. And for this he brings the order to the zone, which the administration needs.

It is this type of thieves that is most common in the zones now. The underworld has changed no less than the big world. Once it was impossible for thieves to have documents, sign papers, get married, or go to work in the camp. Today, the underworld is actively involved in business and politics. How can you do without paperwork in business? What kind of politician is this without a family, that is, without hostages? Tumbleweed, no one will believe him ... Starting from about the 70s, the honorary title of thief in law for the underworld began to be bought and, more importantly, sold. There was even a name for such newly minted thieves in law - “oranges”. These people, in general, are no longer as ideological as the former thieves. They used to die, went to the fires, but refused to kiss the bitch a knife (there was such a way of pounding during bitch war). Honor and respect are also of great value. Well, then concrete things began to be respected - money, the ability to make money. Morals in the underworld have changed - they have also changed in prison.

Guys

This is the next caste. It consists of random people, in general, in the zone. One was imprisoned by his wife for drinking, the other stole some trifle, he was in prison for a fight, but they sewed this case - he got caught on the arm. After all, in our country, in general, from fifty to ninety percent of convicts are people who in some western country would simply be fined, and that's the end of it. There, after all, prisons only bring losses, but here they have brought profit for many years, that's the whole point. This is only if you count the legal profit. And how the camp administration made money in the zones, its bosses, the mafia, and the same free-spirits who go to work in the camps, and those who live near the camps - it is better not to tell.

Today the camps in Russia also bring mainly losses, unemployment there is cleaner than outside. Slave labor could replace free labor only when relatively simple things were done in freedom, which did not require initiative, creative imagination. Those times have passed - only those who react instantly survive on 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 both them and society, and the victims, to whom they cannot even compensate for the damage - unemployment. It is these people who form the male caste.

The peasants 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 thieves. The men do not have the right to vote in their "showdown". But, of course, there are respected people among them, to whom the thieves listen, not to mention the rest of the men. In a word, men are prisoners who are going to return to normal life after serving their sentence.

Goats

These are open employees of the camp administration. Those who agreed to accept any position - the manager of the club, the librarian, the commandant of the zone. Those who put on "jambs" - an armband. Those who joined the SPP - the "crime prevention section", that is, the internal police of the camp. They are also called "bitches". "Lost" - who agreed to work for the cops. The administration calls the goats an "asset", "individuals who have firmly embarked on the path of correction." Of course, the convicts treat them badly. Traitors are treated badly everywhere, and if we take into account that in each zone between the administration and the prisoners, the war is going on - sometimes "cold", then real - such an attitude will become understandable.

They get into the goats in different ways: someone of their own free will, someone will be forced, someone will be intimidated. In some zones, the arriving stage is generally given quilted jackets with bandages already sewn on. If you put it on, you will miss it. If you don't wear it, you rip off the bandage - they will put you in a punishment cell, and upon leaving you will receive the same quilted jacket, the same offer and the same punishment cell for refusal. And so many months in a row. Some survive - 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 - you will be on duty at the checkpoint between the "lokalki" - fences within the zone, or between the "zhilukha" and "promka" - the residential and industrial parts of the zone. You will be "godfather", the chief of the operative unit, the same convicts as yourself, to hand over. And even if you do not sign up for the SPP, but, for example, work in the library, you are still a goat, and the lads will not accept you. In the zone, in general, there is no movement upward, from a lower caste to a 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 a war, all the goats must be shot as potential traitors. But this, of course, is only a legend. Although during the war, German punitive detachments were not composed of army soldiers and not even always of SS men, but primarily of policemen. The Germans were not so crazy as to corrupt their army with such deeds.

Roosters

The last caste is ROCKS, they are also "offended", "omitted", "peeders" 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 homosexuals - they are simply untouchable.

Homosexuality in prisons has always existed, it was, as a rule, a voluntary matter. But from some time - according to some information, from the reform of the "corrective-labor" system of 1961 - the custom began to spread in the zones: punishment in the form of violent conversion of the guilty person to a homosexual. Some GULAG veterans believe that this custom was invented by the opera - it became their weapon in the fight against denials. There is a similar custom among some backward tribes in Africa - there, boys who could not stand the test of initiation into men are given female names, dressed in women's clothes and resettled to the back of the camp. That is, they make them seem to be non-men. A similar thing is found in some species of monkeys - the leader of the pack, as a sign of victory over the guilty male, rapes him.

In correct terms, there is a law: "h ... m is not punished." That is, the prison law expressly prohibits punishing anyone in this way. If a person is found guilty - and guilty only because of his prison life, and not according to his freedom - he can be fined - a pack of "Belomor", a million rubles, etc. You can, if they decide so during the disassembly, you can beat him, break his bones, and finally kill him. But you can't omit it.

I have already said that the omitted appeared in the prison community after the 1961 reform. Before this reform, there was one type of camps for all convicts. The reform divided the camps into regimes: general, reinforced, strict, special. As a result, the first-movers, who began to be imprisoned in general-regime camps, were separated from repeat offenders. They ended up in other regimes - so as not to "exert a bad influence" on the first movers. Thus, the first-movers were separated from the experience of forced living together, developed by many generations, which repeat offenders, among other things, possessed. This experience allowed (we are talking about the second half of the fifties), at the very least, but to live in peace. In addition, people of all ages were in the former camps. And the struggle for supremacy there was to some extent mitigated by the existence a large number elderly and old people. They, of course, 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 their elders - this is in every person. Now imagine: hordes of young men (and first-movers, as a rule, people of the same age, 20-22 years old), whom nature itself has doomed to constant competition and finding out who is more important, stronger, smarter. Naturally, there will be constant bickering between them, since they cannot at least temporarily disperse, rest, communicate with those with whom it makes no sense to compete - with the elderly, women, children. On a youngster, by the way, things are even worse precisely because there are no elders there. Even the prison administration understands this and put the youngsters "batyu" - an adult prisoner into the cells. And these "baty" happens to rob youngsters, which is why the position of "baty" is considered to be a kosyachny one.

Most of all people are lowered in zones 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 human and just survive. After a youngster, prisons give most of all those who are left out. For the same reason that they arrange a residence permit, they believe that it should be so. In the camps, they are lowered much less often than in prisons. The tougher the regime, the less frequent. In general, the harder the regime in the camp, the easier it is for those who are in it.

They say it's better to die than to become a "rooster". They are treated very cruelly: they are forced to live in trees, to eat mice, to shove light bulbs in their asses - who knows what. But this, again, depends on the regime. They do the wildest things with them in general mode, not to mention the youngster. It's easier for them on strict. There, every convict knows his place. Usually on a strict regime, and indeed in any correct zone, a rooster is just a rejected person. He has everything separate, and he dares not touch anyone. But if he was offended, he was treated unfairly, he can complain to the authorities, and he will be protected, because experienced people understand: one who is mucked by his own will go to seek protection from strangers. That is, he will start working for the administration, knocking.

The roosters have separate places, the dishes are separate, the work is separate - the parade ground for revenge, to wash the toilets. You can't take anything from them. And to give, to throw, so as not to accidentally touch, you can. There are exceptions, though. When they are "consumed", it is not considered a desecrating contact. In a punishment cell, sometimes only through a rooster something can be passed - if between the punishment cell and the residential area there is a "ban", a forbidden lane. It is possible to be on it only to the one who evens it, that is, to the roosters - this is their job. It is through them that the heating is transmitted. It is believed that in such a situation, neither the things that have passed through the hands of the rooster, nor the one who received them, are not "greased", that is, they are not defiled.

In the prison regime, in a colony of a special and strict regime, there are, as a rule, few roosters - from one to five percent. In the enhanced and general regime, their share can reach 10-12%, and in a youngster - up to 20. The softer the regime, the more there are. In some zones there are whole barracks - "monkey houses", "offenders". And in normal zones, they just sleep at the entrance to the barracks and do not go further. Roosters usually have their own "godfather" - the head cock. This is an influential figure. After all, he can order some rooster to kiss, say, someone in front of everyone. A rooster, of course, can be killed for this, but the one he kisses automatically becomes a rooster himself. The chief petukh is at the same time an intermediary between the untouchable caste and the entire camp community. All claims are omitted, all their proposals are communicated to the authoritative (gangway) through this leader. Through him, this group of outcast and formally withdrawn from normal life people are ruled by the authoritative. The main cock is optional, 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 informed about the inner life of the zone. They are aware of many intrigues, they can know who the real “overseer” is (the prisoner who appears to be the “overseer” is often a figurehead, and the real leader of the zone is not exposed), and much more.

They become roosters for life. If a rooster comes to a zone where no one knows him - when he will be transferred there, or from the outside, if he is planted 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 revealed roosters are punished, beaten, and often killed. After all, it is believed that such a rooster "boiled" all those who considered him an equal.

Since the beginning of the 90s, since the time when prison manners began to spread rapidly in the wild, the demoted began to come from there, with a ready-made status.

By the way, there are not so many among the neglected passive homosexuals and "prostitutes", contrary to popular belief. Basically, as I said, they fall for the gross violations of the prison law, for example, for snitching, for rats (stealing from their own people), for lawlessness, non-payment of card debt. Those who lowered themselves or were the plowman of the cell in which someone was lowered without guilt are also very likely candidates for roosters. However, they can drop it for anything. For beautiful eyes, they can lower it. It is difficult to rape an adult man - he will resist. Therefore, there are a number of substitute rituals. For example, they touch the lips of a sleeping person h ... m. Or moisten a towel with sperm and run it over the face. Sometimes the first movers are deceived: let me fuck you - you will get a pack of cigarettes. There are smokers who can live without water and bread, but not without smoking. So they are sold for smoke, or even just gobies from the ground picked up - they cooked themselves.

They can promise both support and protection for "services" - whatever. This is called "talk on x ... y". Such a deception is considered a major jamb: these deceivers themselves are then lowered on a par with rapists and derbaners. They can - and this is also the largest jamb - set up an inexperienced novice convict who has attracted the attention of someone. Let's say that all the chairs in the hairdresser's will be occupied except for one, which is greasy. A man, not feeling trouble, enters the hairdresser and sits down on the only free chair. "Countryman, where have you sat down?"

Card debtors often fall into the neglected. A person who has not paid off a debt (and even in the form of a smoke) in the zone may simply be killed - this is not a will, for debts there are seriously recovered. 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 cabin. Now, like any rooster, you can't take anything from him.

- If the name of the convict Petukhov, for example, does this affect his position in the zone?

The surname itself has no effect. Now, if a person does not like something others, it will ruin his life.

- I heard that unclean people or those suffering from skin diseases usually fall into the lowered ones.

Lies. Or a typical example and "Fan Fanych's research". Prison law seen through a peephole.

Skin diseases cannot be the cause of "sinking" in any way. 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 maintain personal hygiene; he cannot use a common washbasin. And he does the dirtiest work. Uncleanliness is also a violation of the prison law. But just for this, a person is unlikely to be omitted. After all, this happens all the time - where there is an unclean body, there are unclean 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, there are a few more groups that need to be mentioned. In addition to "pigs" and "devils", there are also "six" in the zones - servants. Too weak or helpful people fall into sixes. Both in prisons and in camps, excessive servility is not in honor. If you are asked to do something, say, wash someone else's socks, and you agree - to be a six for you. Even if you do it for a fee. It is customary in the prison to serve oneself independently. The one who cannot bear the difficulties, who begins to do and fulfill everything for a piece of bread, does not deserve respect. But, you yourself 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 being fulfilled, and on who and how does it. Sometimes even a person who serves a mug of water becomes a six.

Other passive homosexuals differ from cocks - personal lovers of thieves, all these Jackdaws, Svetki, Masha. They are not beaten, they are not kept in a black body, on the contrary, they are smeared from work - so that they are soft. But they are not allowed to do too much either. It is better not to get involved with these personalities.

"Shnyri" keep apart in the zones - orderlies in detachments, cleaners in headquarters, canteens, medical units, etc. This is also a low-respected audience, something like the goats of the last analysis.

They say that prisoners and camps do not particularly favor those who sat down for rape. What other articles, besides 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?

In fact, they are already accustomed to "rape" in the zone. There are more scary articles. For example, for avoiding the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Even for homosexuality, for lecherous 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 jail the person and put him in jail, albeit under the article for rape (in the old Criminal Code it was the famous 117th, "youth" article). This is a fairly common case.

Earlier, articles for vagrancy, for hooliganism, for living without a registration were considered not prestigious. In general, the one who does his “work” without corpses, without violence, and so on, enjoys respect in the underworld.

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 compulsory.

But not every cock regularly practices homosexual relationships.

Roosters in jail - who are they?

Omitted within prison life are an untouchable caste. How do those who have been deprived 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 cockpits.

The omitted enjoy separate subjects everyday life.

Holes are made in their dishes so that no one accidentally confuses the "sealed" plates and spoons with normal ones.

Life is very difficult for those who have been left in prison. Roosters do the dirtiest jobs.

There are several theories about the origin of this caste.

According to the most widespread version, those left behind were separated into a separate prison stratum after the 1961 reform.

She divided the camps according to the severity of the regime of detention: hardened convicts, recidivists began to live separately from the first movers (you can find out what types of prisons exist in Russia today and what regimes there are).

First-movers are, as a rule, young people striving for competition in all spheres of life, they did not know the prison foundations and, in the absence of supervision of more experienced prisoners, their life over time became more and more wild.

This led to the fact that the punishment of rape, which was a last resort before the reform, applied in isolated cases, has become widespread everywhere (read about the types of violence in prisons).

Any prisoner can become omitted.

These include:

1. People who practiced homosexual relationships in the wild.
2. Prisoners who ended up in the ILC for the rape of underage children.
3. People whose relatives work in law enforcement.

Reference: in addition to roosters, there is a caste of devils in the prison community. The status of the untouchables is related to the lowered devils, but they are not used for sexual pleasures.

Automatic descent is less and less practiced in prisons. The attitude towards people who have sat down under the "cock" articles will not be good, but they will not show 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 do they become for?

Contrary to the stereotype, the share of voluntary homosexuals among the offended is low.

Most prisoners become roosters for non-sexual offenses.

Below is what they put in prisons for. Usually these are various serious violations of the rules. prison life:

1. Failure to pay card debt. Unpaid debts in prison have to be paid in blood, and the only alternative to save life is the provision of sex services.
2. Skin-to-skin contact with another cock 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 omitted.

   The offended, driven to despair, often use this for revenge. Sometimes body contact is not necessary - it is enough to spend the night in a cockpit.

3. Weakness of character, inability to stand up for oneself. For some things (for example, for sending to ...) it is necessary to ask an answer. If the offended side does not do this, then it can lose all its authority and go into the category of offended.
4. Squealing.
5. Theft of property from other prisoners.
6. Putting another person down for no good reason.
7. Cute appearance, high-pitched voice, cutesy - these factors increase the likelihood of getting a residence permit in the cock's corner.

Lowering can also be carried out by order of the prison administration to remove unwanted prisoners from prison life.

The most popular way is to lock the convict overnight in a cockpit.

But the attitude towards such omitted in the prison community is more loyal.

In the 2000s and subsequent years, there is a refusal to descend by means of rape. This is due to the increased control over the internal regulations of correctional institutions; more attention has been paid to the protection of prisoners' rights.

Briefly about how not to become a rooster in prison:

1. Watch your words. Do not disclose unnecessary details of sexual and personal life, do not offend anyone without reason.
2. Have pride. Be able to stand up for yourself and ask for a response from the offender.
3. Minimize contact with roosters. This includes refraining from participating in beatings and rapes.
   Even in prison one has to remain human, and humanity is valued there.
4. Do not steal from your own people, do not knock, do not cooperate with the administration.

Conclusion

Now you know how gay people live in prisons. Such a phenomenon as the presence of a caste of the abandoned 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 soften, this stratum still exists, and this sad fact has to be put up with.

"Dropped", "full of holes", "punched out", "set aside", "roosters" and so on. They are given female names... Prisoners with "low social status", as they say 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 become

Probably about 80% of conversations, jokes, jokes, threats and insults in the zone are related to the topic of "omitted". To be honest, convicts love this kind of conversation. 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 very last "horse" (the servant of the convicts) 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 an incorrectly spoken word or an insult that has not been answered, to certain actions, any negligence can negatively affect social status.

I had a friend who, without thinking, said in public that he was petting with his girlfriend. In fact, there is nothing incomprehensible in this word, but there is a golden rule in the zone: express yourself 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 "sharpening his teeth", then such a statement can be a direct road to the "harem" (to "roosters", in other words).

An acquaintance had something like this: he blurted out without thinking, then quarreled with the people to whom he blurted out, and those, remembering petting, tried to prove that the friend had a direct road to the "down". 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, since he would not have solved this problem on his own, since he had just arrived at the camp. After this story, an acquaintance was warned that in the zone in no case should one talk about his personal life.

There are a lot of intimate life prohibitions in the prison world. In fact, the only sure way not to get into the "joint" is to engage exclusively in classic sex, never touching anything else. It is better not to engage in oral sex at all, since it only allows you to hire 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, "cocky").

This does not mean that no one on the outside was engaged in all sorts of "bad" things - they simply keep silent about this.

You can also visit the "harem" for not responding to some insults. For example, if they sent three letters and the person did not say anything, it means that there is a road for him.

But a convict can become a "rooster" for seemingly ordinary, everyday actions. It is impossible to contact the "detached" ones. Everything that the "lowered one" touches is immediately "stuffed" (that is, it becomes 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 "seized". They told how some of them carried mobile phones from the living area to the work area in their underpants. And the convicts were not at all embarrassed by this. Still "lowered" ones can be beaten (with sticks or legs) and used for the second purpose.

I was told that in some areas, especially for "roosters", so that they would not take the handles, nails were driven in the doors. They have their own tables, bunks, toilets, taps, everything of their own that "muzhiks" cannot touch. Therefore, if a convict takes food, cigarettes from the "lowered" one, 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 ignorance" (when a person does not know that there is a "rooster" in front of him, or that the thing is "farmed").

This is not California

The two main responsibilities of the "offended" are: sexually satisfying the prisoners and doing all the dirty work in the zone. They can be beaten for educational purposes and so, for the soul. I was told of cases when the "lowered" were woken up with a foot in the face so that they would go to clean the toilet.

The administration has an ambiguous view of the "cock" question. For a long time, the police officers who have been working in the MLS are imbued with "concepts" to the marrow of their bones and, accordingly, treat the "lowered" ones a little differently from 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 try in every possible way to keep track of the "roosters" not being severely beaten and humiliated. And lately they have been especially successful: they have almost completely stopped beating the "seated".

In the area where I was sitting, even at the beginning of my term, the "offended" was obliged to press against the wall when the "man" walked along the corridor.

If there is no place to put the "lowered" one, then he can sleep right under the bunk. At the stages, in the transit cells, all the "roosters" sit 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 will be able to endure the constant humiliation, beatings, harassment and complete destruction of human dignity to which the "offended" are subjected.

True, the "omitted" are distinguished by no less cruelty. Old-timers told me that supposedly in one of the colonies they decided to conduct an experiment, and the "roosters" from all over the zone were settled in one detachment so that no one would touch them, and they could live peacefully for themselves. So, no sooner had the militiamen done this than the "offended" ones created in the detachment exactly the same hierarchy as in the entire zone: there appeared their own "thieves", "men" and "lowered" ones. But, unlike the rest of the zone, in this detachment the hierarchy was maintained, allegedly thanks to inhuman cruelty (in principle, this is understandable). The experiment had to be terminated.

I don’t know how in other camps, but in our zone it was always possible to distinguish the "roosters" outwardly. Not only in their clothes, they had some kind of special imprint on their faces. It was clear that these people were not in the "harem" in vain.

However, despite all the beatings and humiliations, the "omitted" have some rights and social guarantees.

First, all "roosters" are divided into workers and non-workers. Workers provide sexual services, non-workers do not. And no one has the right to force a "lowered" person to do "this" against his will - this is lawlessness. Most often, intimate services are provided by mutual desire.

Secondly, you have to pay for sex. If the prisoner does not pay the "punched" for sex, then he is doing it for love. And who can have love with a "rooster"? That's right, at the same. In general, in terms of payment for cleaning or other services, the "omitted" were not "thrown": they paid in full and always on time, since they are already offended by life, so much more to scoff! Therefore, very often prisoners with a low social status in material terms were doing 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 the "full of holes" with pleasure, not seeing any problems in this, and those who avoid such things, considering them an active form of homosexuality. There are not so many firsts in the zone, especially recently, when the police actively began to eradicate intimate services. I don’t know how in other camps, but in our colony the administration has achieved tremendous success in this matter. Our convicts, before turning to the "cock" with a proposal to have sex, thought three times: do they need it.

Not bad

But here's what's interesting. Despite the poor position of the "offended" in the zone, some prisoners deliberately and absolutely voluntarily went to the "harem". In my memory, several people specially took something from the "offended" or sat down to eat at their table. Someone did it out of protest against something, someone simply could not stand their nerves. But there were convicts who, during their imprisonment, began to understand that they liked sex with men, and in all its manifestations.

It always seemed to me that such a cruel attitude towards "roosters" arose as a means of protection against the possible spread of sodomy. Psychologists have long proved that in closed same-sex groups there is a so-called false homosexuality, Freud called this phenomenon acquired perversion. Being long time among the peasants, willy-nilly, you begin to look closely at some of them as possible objects of desire. No, of course, everyone remains heterosexual, but women are far away and, over time, become a somewhat abstract concept, so many of them shift their attention to “their own”. Someone even hides it 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 "cock" in order to "throw off the tension and not hit his face in the mud on the date."

I remember being told about how true love arose between one "man" and a "rooster". They even planned to live together after the release, and the "lowered" one 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, for some for life.

We've gotten enough talk that Western politicians and all the rest of "progressive humanity" are going to boycott the Sochi Olympics because of the oppression of homosexuals in Russia. And this happens, of course, to thunderous applause and enthusiasm from the Russian opposition.

I could not find a single example of so-called harassment against athletes or fans representing sexual minorities. Is that only new law forbidding them to have sex or hold gay pride parades near schools and kindergartens. This is also not recommended by law for straight people. And do the Olympians of non-traditional sexual orientation participate in the Olympic Games only to have sex near kindergartens or to campaign for a blue life there? If not, then why such a loud hysteria and who is hindered by the law prohibiting it?

And why were the fighters for the rights of sexual minorities so hooked on the Sochi Olympics, and not, say, the strict regime camps? Because the “fight” for LGBT rights in conjunction with the Olympic Games is pure PR and big money. Please note that the “world human rights activists” of the allegedly violated rights of sex minorities in Russia are only interested in global issues that are worthy of funding and mass attention. Such as the Olympics, tours of the first persons of Russian classical music, visits of heads of state, etc. And nothing less.

I know that now defenders of homosexuals (including Western ideological fighters, some Russian bloggers and LGBT activists) will burst out with more cries that I, they say, offend people with non-traditional sexual orientation and urge them to ignore the violation of their rights.

Hey guys! Wake up! Everything is much simpler. Why do you defend only where it is interesting and profitable for you to do it? If I'm wrong, then why don't you, as true fighters for the rights of LGBT and other sexual minorities, start to defend, say, " offended roosters»In zones or in prisons?

Don't you know those? Then I'll tell you. And my words will be confirmed by everyone who, by the will of fate, visited places of imprisonment.

“Roosters”, “offended”, “lowered”, “cock's suit”, “chushkari”, “full of holes” are just a small part of the official prison camp names of persons of non-traditional sexual orientation. In fact, all of these names are synonymous. Is that, there is a small nuance between "lowered" and "offended", which now, in practice, does not carry a semantic load. The downcast one is an open passive homosexual who had homosexual contacts, and the offended one is the one who “grinded”, that is, shook hands with a rooster, or ate from the same plate, or used his spoon, or entered into any other close contact.

In each remand prison, the prison and the correctional colony have special huts (cells, sections), the so-called "offenders", where the "roosters" live separately from everyone. In large camp barracks, this is a special "cock's corner". In many zones and prisons, the "offended" have their own supervisor, from the same. He is called the "head cock". Each newly arrived convict must be informed about the whereabouts of the "offended woman", so that the newcomer does not accidentally "grind". Now, the "offended" make up about 1 - 1.5% of the total number of Russian prisoners. And this is almost 15 thousand convicts.

The "roosters" necessarily have their own bedding, which is washed separately, as well as their own dishes, which are also stored strictly separately. So that, God forbid, it does not get confused with the dishes and linen of "decent prisoners." Otherwise, there will be big problems. Everyone has. Even on the test in the ranks of the "offended" to be built separately.

« Rooster ", he is" homosexual ", he is" offended "or" full of holes ", has no right:

Sit at a common table in a cell or camp canteen (for them there are separate eating areas with separate dishes and storage areas for food);
- touch food for ordinary prisoners;
- take a cigarette from a pack, touching other cigarettes, or light a cigarette from one match in front of a "decent prisoner";
- to shake hands with anyone, except for the same lowered ones;
- to file a complaint with an ordinary prisoner, since he is not an equal being. Instead of answering a complaint, he may well get hit;

"Rooster", he is "homosexual", he is "offended" or "full of holes", is obliged:

Fulfill practically any requirements of other prisoners;
- to carry out all the dirty work in the cell, barrack, section. Namely, to wash the floors, take out the trash cans, clean up the distant (parasha, latrine, etc.). At the same time, in the detachments, all dalnyaks are assigned to the "roosters" who are responsible for their cleanliness;
- to live only in the premises of the "offended", ordinary huts, sections and barracks are not for them;
- when entering the cell (section, barrack) for the first time, immediately inform the whole house “I am offended” and modestly settle down near the brakes (doors) or the dalnyak (toilet), where to wait for the further decision of one's fate. If the "rooster" hid the fact that he was offended and behaved like an ordinary convict (he shook hands, drank chifir from a common mug with everyone, sat down at a common table), and then it turned out that he was a homosexual, then they may well be beaten to death ... Since he “faked” (stained, infected) the entire “human hut”.
- use only separate dishes, towels, linens and other household and personal hygiene items.
- clearly realize their lowest place in the prison-camp hierarchy and understand that even all sorts of "rats", "snitches" and "knockers" are higher and will never be equated with "roosters". Is that they will be "omitted", but this is the most extreme measure, which is almost never applied.

At the stage in the Stolypin carriage, the "roosters" are located on the floor under the lower "bunk" (shelf), or (if you're lucky) in a separate "compartment".

I will tell you what they do with those who, having jumped into the "Stolypin", in the hope of the general bustle of the road, do not inform the rest of the convicts that they are "offended". In the winter of 2011, I happened to visit the stage Murmansk - Vologda - Moscow. One of the conveyancers, during the withdrawal to the toilet, looked into the next compartment and, passing, managed to shout that one of the convicts sitting there was a “cock”, they say, he recognized him from the Murmansk central. After a difficult conversation, the Murmansk resident confessed that he was a homosexual and lived in a “offended prison” in the Murmansk pre-trial detention center, but decided to hide his sexual orientation. They beat him for a long time and severely (there were at least 10 convicts in the neighboring "kupeshka"). Then they kicked him under the bottom shelf, where he spent the rest of the long journey. Yes, and more. The experienced convoy defiantly did not pay any attention to the situation. Only later did he take the "offended" person several times to clean the common toilets and the corridor in the "stolypin".

Until recently, “offended” were forcibly made special “portacas” (tattoos, tattoos), informing about their orientation. Here are just a few:

1.Designation: homosexual - "daisy", "mashka", "rooster", "comb", "blue", "chushok". The location is the back.
2.Has the name "King of all stripes". The designation is a homosexual capable of all forms of sex. The location is the back.
3.Tattoo of authority among homosexuals, the so-called "chief cock".
4. The ring of the "lowered"

Now such a tattoo can only be done by force to those who have already been seen trying to hide their "cock suit".

Here is a brief about the "rights and obligations" of representatives of sexual minorities in places of detention.

I suggest LGBT activists, politicians and journalists parasitizing on the topic of protecting (it is not clear from what) sexual minorities, to end the screams about the Olympics and groans about the ban on gay pride parades around schools and kindergartens, and start protecting the rights of homosexuals in zones and prisons. Of course, they don't pay for it, there is no PR, and it is somehow scary to go into barracks and huts ... But try it. A?

Chamber life. Looking. Rooster

Several times I have already sat down to write "specifics", but still could not present everything as I would like. Therefore, in part, I went a little into abstract topics.

Several times my acquaintances asked me - how is it, there? Usually you start talking, you look at the interlocutor and you see a misunderstanding - the person listens, but does not perceive. It simply does not enter his head. As if we are talking about integral calculus. All the words seem to be understandable - but they don't add up to a picture.

It is difficult to understand that right here, nearby, in the same city where you live, where ordinary people walk at a distance of some 10 meters, is a completely different world. Some of the prisoners called it "The Lost World". Rotting bodies, stench, lice, bedbugs, scabies, tuberculosis, "roosters" under the bins, stinking gruel with worms, "concepts", cops and thieves' chaos.

Once, seeing a misunderstanding, I took my friend into the bathroom - an ordinary average bathroom in an ordinary apartment. Imagine, I say, that in this bathtub we put three two-tier bins, a table, a toilet bowl (more precisely, just a point - "dalnyak" - like in public toilets).

And now we are settling 7–8, and maybe 10–12 people here. What is it like? - a person looks at me with disbelief, - here you just can't become ten, even if you throw everything away and leave bare walls, and not that three bins ...

Well, of course, there is nowhere to become - but you can live. A year, two, three - going out only once a day for an incomplete hour for a walk.

This is exactly the picture I saw when I crossed the threshold of hut number 105 of the Kaliningrad prison.

Shkonari welded from pipes and metal strips. Mattresses, at first glance, are there - but later it turned out that they are practically empty - this is a luxury item in the prison. A very limited number of them are passed on "by inheritance" to their families and relatives. The rest is just camouflage with a few cotton balls. Therefore, many have to sleep almost on metal.

But this is already a familiar thing - ten days before that there weren't even those like that in quarantine - they just sleep there on iron, without mattresses, blankets, beds. October in the Baltics is already very cold and damp, especially at night. It is impossible to sleep more than an hour and a half - you had to get up and move, drink tea (if any). And you don't have more than 8 hours, since there are 30 people in the hut for 10 places. So now it will be possible to sleep off on this mattress and even under a blanket. How little a person needs for joy.

Dalnyak is fenced off by a screen. A faucet comes out above him and water pours directly into the point. This must always be remembered, since getting up after a great need, you can stumble on his back. But forgetting about it is not so easy - it leaks, and when you are sitting on the far side, cold water dripping on your back. To prevent water droplets from irritating them with a sound, a strip of matter is tied to the tap, and water flows down through it.

Nearby is a table - "common fund", firmly concreted into the floor. No more than two people can sit behind him - one on a nearby cabinet, the other on a stool. Above it is a "TV" - a metal box for dishes and food.

Stool - "stool" is not attached to the floor. In general, this is a violation - everything must be firmly welded to the floor. But in this kennel it is simply impossible - nowhere.

The passage between the skonars is exactly for one person, and even then - not very broad-shouldered. Two, even sideways, cannot pass. In total, the passage from the doors ("brakes") to the distant shkonar is four steps. Sometimes I even managed to walk - three steps, on the fourth turn, three again ... and so on for an hour. But this is rare - in short periods of unfilled (this is when TOTAL 7 people) huts.

The top shkonar at the tails is a worker. They don't sleep on it, there workplace road builder - responsible for the roads, i.e., the connection between the huts. They do not sleep there for another reason - there are no windows and in cold weather it is simply impossible to be there. Trunks are stacked there. And plus a few strips from the shkonar ripped out - someone needed a "saber" at one time, most likely, to slightly push the button accordion fur.

There are practically no windows - that is, there is one, under the ceiling, but you will not be able to see anything through it - metal blinds, called accordion (or cilia), are installed so that only air can pass through. The light practically does not pass - in the cells, day and night - around the clock - a light is on (only then the words of the famous song reached me - "Taganka, all nights are full of fire ..."). There are two more grates - tails. One forged, still German, with large cells - 20 centimeters, the other small - minced meat - from fittings, with a cell size smaller than a matchbox - is already ours.

The walls are incredibly dirty brown. It looks like they were once white. They say that overhaul has not been done here since the days of Germany - more precisely, the end of the war. Very similar to that. This prison is one of the few buildings that survived from the old Konigsberg. Under the Germans in such huts - they say - there were two people. Yes, together it would be more or less bearable here.

The dimensions of the chamber are 3.60 x 1.70, the height is about 2.50. For 10 people. Now even toilets are sometimes made more.

In the corners there are huge ancient cobwebs and the same huge spiders. The spider and the web is one of the main thieves' symbols and therefore is very often found on tattoos. According to prisoners' beliefs, you cannot touch a spider - something like a sacred animal. You can relocate as a last resort. But in hut 105 they were evidently especially respected and not touched at all. But at least there were no flies.

Sanya was driving in the hut. He was 35 then. He was in the third year of his fifth (and probably not the last) walk, which in total had already gained 13 years. 35 minus 13 equals 22. He began to sit at 17. Total 5 at large - 13 in prison. Previously, I kicked according to concepts, but did not rush to the authorities. Now he got tired and began to think about life. The face is surprisingly kind and even childish. No one gave Sanka either his 35 or the fifth pass from the first time. For a cunning gloomy prisoner, everyone who entered the hut took me - and made round eyes when they found out how it really was.

After a short quiet conversation (who, where, the article) assigned me the upper bunk ("palm") above me. Brewed some chifirku. When I soon fell asleep (after sleepless nights of quarantine), already in my sleep I felt how he threw his blanket over me. And even what I learned about him later did not dull the feeling of gratitude for the sympathy shown.

But this moment was preceded by one more incident. In the 105th hut we were thrown together from quarantine - there was another guy of about 27. When we entered, one of the prisoners, who was sleeping on the upper rack, raised his head, uttered an exclamation of surprise and turned to the one who had followed me:

"You have a choice - either you are breaking out of the hut now or I am showing you."

He replied that he does not feel anything with himself and will remain in the hut.

"Then stand near the brakes and don't move. You fuck your ass and take it in your mouth."

He refused - nothing like that, you will answer for the market and all that.

Sanya enters the conversation and turns to Seryoga (that was the name of the accuser) - "Are you sure? Do you know him?" - “Yes, this is Voha, besides, she suffered in my first case, a fellow countryman from Baltiysk. they dragged the heifers. "

Sanya turns to Vokha - "Is it true?" - "No. The fact that he was a patient, I admit, gave testimony at the trial, and everything else is chees." "Are you answering?" - "I answer". "Can you confirm?" - "I can." "Sat?" - "Six months in a pre-trial detention center, now I went under a convention." "What did you get it for?" - "Cops, bastards, set up, hang gop-stop."

“Then there will be such a decision,” Sanyok says, “you guys know the concept - each of you must substantiate your words. Your term is 10 days. you, Serega, there is a suspicion that you want to instigate vain on the guy in revenge for the past. In the meantime, you are under suspicion. Do not touch dishes and food, do not drink tea from common mugs. Your shkonar is still under the window (in cold weather this is the worst place in the hut - a draft and a dubar it does not matter what is outside - it is difficult lie even an hour). If someone wants to share a place with you - while you are under suspicion - no problem. "

Nobody shared his shkonar with Vokha like that. Serega found more witnesses (eyewitnesses, as they say in prison - they don't like witnesses there) who confirmed his words. And Voha never looked for anyone. He sat and doomed awaiting his fate, which, as he understood, he could not avoid.

Seeing this alignment, Sanya did not even wait for the deadline allotted to him and demanded an explanation, during which he kissed Vokha's face (after carefully removing his slippers). He still refused. Then Sanya still waited until the deadline and announced Voh a rooster. With further beating with feet - it turns out that it is impossible to beat the roosters with your hands - you can "end up".

He tried to break from the hut, but the opera did not want to translate it - we, they say, don’t care - we have nowhere to put it, do with it what you want. After that, he independently moved under the shkonar, although Sanya still allowed him to live on his shkonar - on the concrete floor in such cold weather it was impossible to stretch at least a few hours, in my opinion, but he was able to. When the cops came in for checks, they laughed and told him - give a sound to know if he was alive. Once they just drove in with a boot - Voha mumbled something in pain. "Aaa, it means alive" - ​​said the cop and went on.

With the intensification of cold weather, Voha nevertheless got out from under the bunk and lived quietly on his bunk, talking to himself about something. When they drank tea in the hut, they also poured him into his mug and gave him cigarettes. He himself, without coercion, regularly swept the hut and from time to time began to prove that he was not a rooster. Then he agreed again.

Later, after the New Year, he went to a stage for an investigation in his town. When he returned, they threw him into another house. He went quiet again and did not say who he was. This time he was less fortunate - they beat him for a long time, they broke him from the hut, they made an announcement to the whole prison. After the donkey, he was somewhere offended and more was not heard of him.

And even in quarantine, he behaved brazenly enough and tried, even for no reason, to show his toughness, to make a person "fall on a rag" - to clean the hut. I probably decided to act according to the old Zon's adage - "It is better to drive than to be persecuted." But everything turned out the other way around. Received in response in the face. Not by concept, of course, but the conflict was settled.

And they put Vokha, as it turned out, for a sack of potatoes. Granny was selling on the street, he approached, wanted to take the proceeds from her, but either it was not there, or the granny did not give it. Then he took a bag of potatoes that she was selling, threw it over his shoulders and tried to dump it, but a police squad was just nearby. During the investigation, he said that he was simply helping the granny to carry the bag across the road. And as his conditional conviction for hooliganism has not yet ended, a bag of potatoes probably cost him several years.

And Sanyok behaved very calmly, he loved to tell all sorts of prisoners' stories about how it was before. He had about six months before his release. He had no family or friends. Some cousin somewhere in the village - that's all.

He was afraid to go free. No home, no family. And waited for release with fear. This was visible to the naked eye. Yes, he himself did not particularly hide this in conversations with me. Often he asked about all sorts of everyday little things - up to how to go by trolleybus, buy a ticket, etc. How to get to the station - he (and his aunt) lived somewhere in a village far from the regional center. He was just panicky afraid to go through the city, gets into a trolleybus. He was afraid of women - he himself said that he had no more of them in his 35 years than the intervals between imprisonment. And even then - with a stretch. Often on long nights he quietly asked me to tell him about life - what to do, what to do, what to do and how. He often said that he had nothing to do in freedom - I would go out, he said, I would take a little walk until I was caught once again in some petty theft - and I would sit down again.

Here he felt like a fish in water. Everything was familiar to him, he didn't have to think about shelter and bread. He even went for walks at most once a week. He enjoyed a certain respect - he was able to beautifully tell young people about concepts and life. Although he treated young, spreading his fingers with irony and could successfully laugh at their childish naivety.

Sanya, as it turned out, was a regular informant - he knocked, that is. I began to guess about this already after two or three stays in the hut. Later, in other huts, this was confirmed.

Although he had no relatives, he regularly, about once a month, went on dates. He said that he had skented with a man alone in a year of joint imprisonment, so he comes to him. Also, once a month I received parcels - always about the same - simple cigarettes, Georgian tea, a little bacon, caramels. Later I heard about such programs - they were used by the opera to pay off their non-staff employees. And they took them from obschakovskih broadcasts as a bribe for connivance. The circulation of cigarettes in nature turned out to be interesting.

Those who were of interest to them and only first-timers were thrown into his hut in order to protect Sanka from unwanted meetings.

Why so, why he was afraid to go to the zone - I don't know. Most likely, he was just tired of everything and he wanted some, at least temporary, peace of mind. The opera provided him with certain guarantees of a quiet life, at least in prison, in exchange for information.

I must admit that Sanyok never questioned anyone, and did not fish out anything. Yes, on the other hand, it was not necessary - the language is the smallest member of the body, but who can curb it. Nights and days last oh how long - and I want to talk to someone. People could hardly tell about their exploits.

But then he suddenly had a goal - Sanyok fell in love ...