What is the name of the head of the prison convicts. Slang words and expressions. Penalties for violations

In places of deprivation of liberty, there are certain suits and clans, belonging to which determines the "weight" of the prisoner, the position in the hierarchy system.

From this review, you will learn about the main steps and about who the "devil" is in terms of concepts, what he is, and how he can get into the appropriate group.

Many researchers of the USSR were engaged in the study of prison castes - there is no difference in dividing prisoners into suits then and now, in 2020.

It is easy to go from a high caste to a low one, it is enough to behave not according to the rules, but it will be difficult to climb back.

For example, it is enough to sit down at the cock table once to drop to the rank of “rooster”, and it will take a very long time to return to the previous positions.

Before considering who the "devil" is in the zone, let's talk about all the existing castes:

There is also a kind of "servant" - these are sixes, snoops, woolen, jerseys, shalupen. By themselves, they do not mean anything, but for certain merits and the fulfillment of instructions, they can win favor with the thieves. Well, about what the word "damn" means, further.

Who is the "devil" according to thieves' concepts

The word "devil" in prison slang is used to refer to the lower caste, whose members are forced to do the dirtiest work.

Below the "line" can only be "lowered" and "pigs". Unlike the "rooster", the "devil" does not enter into sexual relations, but the attitude towards them does not get any better from this.

Usually, representatives of this suit do work for the thieves - for a fee, other privileges. The “devils” live in prisons with the “muzhiks”, but the “muzhiks”, despite the lack of the right to vote, are much higher.

According to various studies, until the 80s of the last century, "pigs" were called "devils", later these castes were divided.

Who is called the "devil" in the zone, we figured out, why are the "devils" worse than the "roosters"? The thing is that "roosters" provide intimate services for a fee (if this happens for free, out of love, the other side is also ranked as a "rooster" caste), and "devils" are simply a despicable caste.

The meaning of the word "hell" is downcast, untidy, forced to do any work, humiliated.

The prison world lives on a strict hierarchy. Representatives of the lower castes are far from being in a privileged position, but there are certain differences among them.

For example, "devils" do not engage in sexual contact, but are considered worse than "roosters". It is very easy to go down the "ladder", but it is almost impossible to go up.

Today, Zon phrases can often be heard everywhere: among young people who have nothing to do with the criminal world, from the lips of young mothers and the elderly, as well as from adolescents and even young children.

Why is thieves' jargon so popular these days?

The reason that Zon phrases are so in demand in everyday life today is romanticization. prison life. You need to thank for this thieves chanson, movies and books that show beautiful and strong personalities belonging to the criminal environment. It is in fiction and cinematic creations that the realism of depicting life in places of deprivation of liberty or after release flourishes. Therefore, Zon's phrases fit into the works quite organically.

Why do young people use jargon in speech?

There are several reasons why young people actively use Zon phrases in their speech.

1. Juvenile nihilism, which opposes "correct speech", causes adolescents to speak in a way that annoys adults.
2. The desire to appear stronger than it really is, “cooler” than their peers, pushes them to “play on the hair dryer” instead of the generally accepted and understandable speech.
3. Deliberate rudeness in behavior and, of course, in conversations is a way to hide your youthful shyness and self-doubt from prying eyes. For example, the thieves' phrase "You will answer for the bazaar!" the young man warns that he should not be lied to, otherwise the one who lied will be severely punished. It is likely that the boy will not be able to do anything for lying. But the phrase itself, as it were, elevates him above the one to whom it is addressed.
4. A kind of defense mechanism against unpleasant life situations- replacing common words with jargon. For example, if instead of the phrase “a place for the detainees to stay in the police station” we use the funny jargon “monkey”, then this partially removes the tragedy of what is happening, distracts from the cruel reality. Insulting a “radish” (a bad person) sounds somehow not offensive at all, but even to some extent ironic. It is much more pleasant than comparison with some animals or even waste products.

Where did prison vocabulary come from?

The thieves' environment needed a "coded" language. After all, it was not always possible to transmit messages confidentially. Using a special language understandable only to the initiated, one can, for example, agree on the place and time of the impending crime, the number of participants, and convey some important details.

But create completely new language out of nowhere - a rather painstaking and complex matter. Therefore, we found the most affordable option. They used as a base for their slang language wandering merchants, who were then called ofen. Hence the name of the thug jargon. The phrase "Speak the language of thieves" sounds: "Bot on a hair dryer."

The dictionary of criminal slang includes many words from Yiddish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, English and other languages.

Do creative people need to learn the thieves' jargon?

Of course, you don't have to do this at all. Many people lived their lives quite happily without knowing a single word from the criminal dictionary. But for writers, journalists, screenwriters, it is simply necessary to know at least superficially some of the frequently used vocabulary of asocial elements. Otherwise, how to recreate realistic pictures of everyday life?

You can imagine for a second such an episode filmed in the film: two guys decided to pull a tape recorder out of the car. One of them says to his partner: “You will stay under the tree and make sure that no one prevents me from accomplishing my plan. In which case, signal the danger!

After that, he began to implement the plan. And suddenly the owner himself comes out of the entrance! Then the one who was left to watch shouts to the second: “Comrade thief, danger! We need to get away!"

The situation is understandable, but the irony lies in the absurdity of the presentation of the event, since criminals will never speak so long and correctly. Rather, the picture should look like this.

One of the thieves says to the second: “I went to work, and you remain on the lookout!” Briefly and clearly. And when the owner of the car appeared, standing on the nix, he shouted just one word: “Atas!” This will be enough to signal the approaching danger.

Law enforcement and criminal jargon

Well, these people without knowledge of thieves' vocabulary are simply nowhere. Investigators, taking testimonies of witnesses, write down what the latter heard. To understand what was discussed between the accomplices, it is necessary to be well versed in the slang of criminal elements.

“Vaska says to the bald man with whom they sat down in the kitchen to drink: “Tomorrow we will go to our ears. I have one in mind Bell pepper. Do not take feathers - we don’t need mokruha! Fat doesn’t blather anything - he, for one, knocks on everyone ... If we fail, you will answer for the bazaar!

This speech is translated as follows: “Tomorrow we will go to a robbery. I have a rich man in mind. Don't take knives - we don't need murder! Don’t tell Fatty anything, he’s completely messed up, I think he informs everyone to the authorities ... If we get caught red-handed at the crime scene, you, as if talking about plans, will be punished!”

By the way, for employees of law enforcement agencies, studying a jargon dictionary is a must. And in films about “cops” (policemen) and “opers” (operatives), such episodes are often found.

Some words from the dictionary of criminals

• Authority - a thief in law, a respected person in the criminal world.
• Alberka - syringe for injections.
• Altushki, bashli, bobuli, cabbage - money.
• The poster is a fat face.
• Beach is a weak-willed person who has fallen into dependence on stronger ones.
• Baba is an old man.
• Huckster is a speculator.
• Babets is an old aunt.
• Babich - shirt.
• Balagas - sugar.
• Brothers - eyes.
• Brod - street.
• Vaydonit - yell.
• Weyer - newspaper.
• Wax - vodka.
• Zhban - head.
• Finch is a cowardly person.
• Rat, rat house - stealing little things from his cellmates.
• To spy - to peep.
• A puddle is a sheet.
• Turn the moon - deceive.
• Oilers - cartridges.
• Washer - stealing from drunks.
• Radish is a bad person.
• Bows, crabs, wings - hands.
• Pheasant is a hoax.
• Shement - quickly.
• The skins are stolen.

Dictionary

At the end of the dictionary is the correspondence between the articles of the criminal codes of the former Soviet republics (meaning the articles mentioned in the books of the series "Criminal Russia. Prisons and Camps", issues 1-3) with the articles of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR of 1961.
The last of the documentary materials included in the collections refers to 1993. This dictionary does not name the correspondence between the articles of the "old" and "new" criminal codes of Russia.

Authority (t) - a representative of the highest group in the informal hierarchy of prisoners (see thieves, thief in law). In prison slang, the word is usually used in plural: "authorities".
The informal order that operates in the community of prisoners is extremely authoritarian in nature, therefore the real situation that develops in the shadow life of the ITU, SIZO or part of them (cell, PKT, ShIZO, etc.) is determined by the personal characteristics of the authorities in power and the presence of a connection of this institution with influential authorities in the wild or in other ITUs, as well as the tactics followed by local operatives. See also correct concepts, correct zone, prison law, disassembly, thieves, thieves.
It should be noted that in the common Russian language the word authority is more often used in a meaning close to the English influence (influence), and is opposed in meaning to the word "power", but does not complement it. Power exists in the space of formal structures, influencing people through a system of statuses, prestige, positions, sanctions. They submit to authority voluntarily, sometimes sacrificing their own benefits and interests.
Authoritative (t) - a prisoner who has a high status in one of two groups (suits) of the informal hierarchy of prisoners: thieves and peasants. It is not used in relation to representatives of such informal groups as goats, devils, lowered, etc.
Activist (c) - a prisoner openly collaborating with the administration of the ITU, who has joined sections, "amateur organizations of convicts." According to ZhR: "unlike the informer collaborating with the opera, the activist is an open collaborator, actively participating in labor competition, campaigning, etc." With the outward similarity of the definitions of this term for the GULAG of the 30-50s and the corrective labor system of the 60-80s, it should be noted that during the period described by the ZhR, activists did not constitute, as they currently do, a separate group in the informal hierarchy of prisoners (see goat).
Prisoner (t) - 1) thief in law, 2) thieves, 3) respected, authoritative prisoner.
Athlete (t) - see fighter.
cormorant (r) - a hooligan (sometimes - a person convicted under article 206 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The word has a contemptuous connotation; authoritative, respected prisoners, even those convicted of hooliganism, are not accepted to be called cormorants.
Mess - disorder in the zone (or in the cell). A mess differs from lawlessness in that lawlessness is a deliberate violation by the administration or false thieves of those norms and rules that are recognized and supported by another part of the zone (or cell), while a mess is the absence of any rules and general licentiousness, as a result of which they also suffer people.
Violation of the rules and causing, by others, harm to the prisoner in unclear circumstances, when the victim himself does not offer decisive resistance and does not then seek justice, is called a rigmarole.
Huckster - speculator. Convicted of profiteering or trading in tea, cigarettes, "wheels" in the zone.
White Swan (t, s) is the informal name for the prison-type institutions available in the eight regional directorates of forest camps. The official name of the White Swan is EPKT (see below). The first White Swan (Usolskoye Forestry Department, Northern Urals) is sometimes called the All-Union BUR, because. "negatively minded convicts" from various regions of the USSR were gathered here.
The exact origin of the name White Swan is unknown. According to one version, the first prison of this type was built on the site where there was a forest glade with the same name (Solikamsk).
Beskonvoynik (raskonvoynik) - a prisoner who has received the right to free movement (within certain limits) outside the zone, as well as to and from work.
Mayhem (t) - lack of order, arbitrariness, lawlessness.
Mayhem thieves, woolen - open violent violation of the prison law by thieves or woolen in relation to other prisoners.
Cop lawlessness- lawlessness, over-cruelty, sadism towards prisoners by the administration of the colony or other officials, for example: a prosecutor, an inspector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, etc. A proverb characterizing this kind of lawlessness: "The law is the taiga, the bear is the prosecutor."
Boundless (t) - lawless, in terms of the norms and rules of prison law.
Bespredelschik (t) - more often - a prisoner, less often - an employee of the ITU who creates lawlessness, arbitrariness.
beach - the same as a devil or a chushkan - a weak-willed person, always falling into dependence on others and quickly sinking. He cannot lead any line of his own and usually serves others.
Thieves (r) - a representative of the highest status group in the informal hierarchy of prisoners. Blatnoy is usually a career criminal. In addition, he must recognize the prison law, follow the right concepts, have a "clean" past, not work in the zone. Any, even an accidental attitude to the structures of power, its political institutions (for example, membership in a party or the Komsomol) forever closes the road to the "criminal world" for the criminal, no matter how high the criminal qualification he subsequently acquires. In the 1930s and 1950s, the path to thieves was closed to those who served in the army, who at least once went to work in the zone. Now the requirements for a candidate for thieves are softer. Even the soldier's service in the internal troops is not always considered a discrediting episode of the biography. And in some zones, thieves can go to work if it is not the work of a foreman, contractor, etc., that is, if it does not give him at least some official power over the rest of the prisoners. Those who worked in the service sector, that is, were a waiter, a taxi driver, cannot become thieves. There are still a lot of other requirements for applicants for the status of a thug. Each zone may have its own specific requirements.
thieves - this is the real power in the ITU, the power that fights with 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 thieves are obliged to ensure that the zone warms up, that is, it receives food, tea, tobacco, vodka, drugs, 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 thieves correct order in the zone is more important than personal benefits. Often his concern for the lads is just an excuse to provide for himself. Better conditions life in the zone. But there are also enough zones where the thieves spend most of their time in the ShIZO, PKT, on the covered one, in order for the lads to live peacefully and not starving.
Functionally, the thieves caste has played a completely different role since the beginning of the 60s than in the 30s-50s. The thieves' world at that time was separated from the main mass of prisoners and lived according to its own laws, considering the rest of the camp population as an alien part for itself, in relation to which completely different rules were in effect. By the end of the 1950s, the thieves essentially lost their power in the Gulag; in the early 1960s, their remnants were separated from ordinary prisoners. Subsequently, a new generation of thieves arose, who are the informal leaders of the prisoners, represent the interests of the bulk of them and are organically included in the prison community.
There is reason to believe that another transformation is currently taking place in the prison subculture, which may lead to the emergence of a group of informal leaders of a new type. However, this issue requires serious study.
The thieves themselves prefer to use various euphemisms and synonyms for the word "thieves", calling themselves authorities, prisoners, tramps, vagabonds, crooks, etc. The old synonyms are zhigans, people, godfathers, etc., known from classical literature about the Gulag are used much less frequently. See also prison law, thieves' law, thief, suits.
The group of thieves has its own hierarchy. In order from higher to lower status: thieves in law, brothers-in-law, authoritative thieves, boys, servants, fighters. Other names may be used in some regions. For example, bribes are called fraers, ordinary thieves are called trump fraers. Names associated with the performance of certain functions are also used, for example: angular, looking, support, etc.
Fighter (r) - a prisoner from the thieves' entourage, carrying out their orders to apply certain sanctions (often violent) to other prisoners, the decisions of a gangway to punish (up to and including murder) a prisoner or an employee of the ITU. During a riot or uprising, fighters are an armed group of prisoners who are subordinate to the leader or leaders of the prisoners. Other used names for fighters are athletes, gladiators. A fighter may be a member of the thieves' caste, but he does not enjoy the respect of other prisoners and does not have the right to vote at the gangway.
Tramp (t) - 1) thieves, 2) A prisoner who recognizes the prison law, a person with the right concepts.
Bratva (t) - 1) thieves.
2) Prisoners who recognize the prison law.
3) Community of prisoners, a local group of prisoners, for example, everyone who is in a given cell.
Tramp (t) - the same as the tramp.
UR (t) - a high-security barrack, a room in which prisoners are under lock and key (sometimes in cells). In essence, it is the inner prison of the camp, where violators of discipline, "refuseees" from work, etc. are placed. BUR emerged back in the 1920s and was replaced by PKT in the early 1960s. However, prisoners are still often referred to as PKT BUR.
goby - cigarette butt. When one prisoner asks another to "Stop smoking," the ethic of right notions demands that the request be complied with.
Watch (o) - 1) a room for on-duty supervisors on the territory of the ITK.
2) A room for ITU workers and soldiers of the internal troops guarding the colony, usually located in the immediate vicinity of the gate for the entry and exit of vehicles.
vertuhay - the same as dubak, navel - overseer. The word has been preserved since ancient times: it is known from the descriptions of Stalin's camps.
adult - adult zone. "Rise to the adult" - move from the colony or juvenile cell to the adult zone or cell.
Take an apartment (t, s) - that is, take on another unsolved burglary.
break in - give information to the opera about a person or hidden objects.
smash - 1. Take a drug. 2. Being caught red-handed (B).
Volnyashki, freestyle (t) - civilian employees of the colony who do not pass certification and do not have a military rank (teachers, masters, drivers). Freemen are also called those who, not being employees of the colony, visit it officially on various business (purchasers, loaders, sellers of book stalls, etc.). For prisoners, freemen are often intermediaries in various kinds of commercial transactions (exchange, purchase, sale), which are illegal or semi-legal. Freelancers usually send and receive illegal (uncensored) letters, money orders, etc.
Thief, thief in law (t) - the elite of the criminal and prison world, its leaders, a kind of initiates. Thieves occupy the highest position in the informal hierarchy of prisoners. In some respects (norms, conflict resolution mechanisms, rituals that operate in this community), thieves in law are somewhat reminiscent of the Sicilian mafia. However, there are also cardinal differences. The thieves who brought their traditions from pre-revolutionary Russia to the underworld of the USSR led a demonstratively asocial lifestyle - they did not work, did not start families, had bright external attributes, had to serve more than one term in prison, etc. Their corporation has always been international, the most important decisions were made not individually, but at a gathering of thieves, there was a ban on any contact between thieves and law enforcement officers.
In the 40-50s, the number of thieves reached ten (perhaps more) thousand people, and together with the environment ("thieves") - 40-50 thousand people. By the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s, the corporation practically ceased to exist. But unexpectedly, it revived in the early 80s, when the number of thieves in law, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, reached 500-600 people. However, now there are some changes in the rules and laws of the corporation of thieves in law. Many of the prohibitions discussed above have disappeared, in particular, the ban on contacts with employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In addition, clans and groups formed along national lines (for example, the Chechen group) began to appear. However, the Russian criminal world, much more successful than civilized business, which is taking root in the life of the new Russian and Western societies, remains largely unknown and incomprehensible to them.
Thieves orders (r) is usually a new rule created as a result of a dispute between prisoners or as a response to a new action by the prison authorities. From orders, the unwritten prison law continues to be constantly drawn up.
thieves law (t) - a set of unwritten rules, norms, mandatory for thieves. In the 1920s and 1950s, the thieves' law, with its correct concepts, did not apply to the entire mass of prisoners, remaining a purely corporate way of organizing life. The whole world, according to the thieves' law, was divided into friends and foes, and strangers had only the only value that at their expense they could exist and their own survived.
Since the beginning of the 60s, the thieves' law, gradually being modified, captures the bulk of prisoners in its sphere of action (see the prison law). Therefore, one should not extend the ideas about thieves and thieves, emerging from the classical literature about the Gulag of the 30-50s (V. Shalamov, A. Solzhenitsyn and others), to a later time.
VTK (o) - educational and labor colony. This is a camp-type ITU for juvenile (from 14 to 18, sometimes up to 20 years old) offenders. They usually contain from 300 to 700 teenagers. On the territory of the VTK there are the same zones and functional premises as in the colony for adults (see ITK), including the premises for disciplinary punishments - DIZO (disciplinary isolator).
According to the law, the conditions of detention in the VTK are much better than in the ITU for adults. However, departments for minors in pre-trial detention centers and the VTKs themselves are the most unfavorable places in terms of ensuring basic human rights. Minors are not provided with the protection of life, health, personal dignity. Torture, bullying, torture, rape are everyday reality in VTK. Moreover, all this happens with the knowledge and even with the support of the educator, who uses such "collective pedagogy" to maintain order, ensure the necessary indicators, and fulfill the production plan. The VTK has the highest proportion of degraded (i.e. raped and constantly used as a sexual object), which in the 1970s and 1980s reached 30% in some regions. In the 1990s, the number of those dropped into the VTK began to noticeably decrease. In some regions, "innovations" are also noted: now teenagers are let down in the wild, and when they come to the pre-trial detention center, they already know their "place" and immediately announce their status.
On January 1, 1997, VTK was renamed VK (educational colonies).
Redeem - find, track down, expose someone (for example, a snitch) in a zone or cell.
break out - break out of the cell under the protection of the administration and demand a transfer to another.
Vyshak (t) - capital punishment (execution); at present, vyshak is officially called "an exceptional measure of punishment" (the name death penalty in one of the first Soviet documents regulating its use, - "an exceptional measure social protection").
chief rooster (t) - an informal leader in the caste of the omitted. He is an authorized representative of the omitted in contacts with the leaders of other informal groups, solves all the problems that arise in the group of the omitted, participates in resolving disputes between the omitted and other suits. Sometimes his functions are performed by two informal leaders - dad and mom.
Gladiator - the same as a bull, a fighter, an athlete, a tanker, - strong man, serving as an instrument for the execution of plans and orders of the thieves to whom he is committed.
GOVD - city department of internal affairs.
Blue (t) - the same as the rooster, lowered. See also suits.
Gopnik - forcibly taking something from another person.
GOP stop - street robbery.
Greve - money and products illegally used to support prisoners.
GUIN - Main Directorate for the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The department in charge of most of the penitentiary institutions in Russia. GUIN manages penitentiary institutions through the regional departments of the ITU. In the republics, they are formed under the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs, in the regions and territories under the corresponding departments of internal affairs. Regional departments now most often bear the name UIN (Department for the Execution of Punishments), less often - OID under the Department of Internal Affairs (or the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the republics). The former name of the regional departments was SID and SR (Service for Correctional Affairs and Social Rehabilitation). The number of penitentiary institutions in the regions varies from 10 to 50.
Former names of GUIN:
Gulag - The main administration of the camps (30-50s).
GUITK - Main Directorate of Correctional Labor Colonies (late 50s).
GUITU - Main Directorate of Correctional Labor Institutions (early 60s - mid 80s).
GUID - Main Directorate for Correctional Affairs (until the end of the 80s).
Gulag - 1) Headquarters of the camps. The name of the Soviet system of concentration camps, which appeared back in the 30th year. 2) The general name of the Soviet system of mass extermination of people and the suppression of any dissent (sometimes - a similar system of other totalitarian countries); the word became international after the publication in the West of A. Solzhenitsyn's book "The Gulag Archipelago". 3) The name used by journalists and human rights activists for the modern penitentiary system of the countries of the former USSR, which in many respects retained the features of the Gulag, despite a number of significant changes that have occurred since Stalin's time and the repeated change of signs (see GUIN).
GUITU (o) - see GUIN.
GULIT (o) - the main department of forest ITU. Structural subdivision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR (since 1992 - the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation), which was administered by the departments of forestry ITU - ULITU. In contrast to the regional departments of GUITU, forest departments were directly subordinate to GULITU (departments of "central subordination"). Then GULITU was renamed into "Spetsles of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation." Since 1995, the management of forestry ITU became a department of GUIN, and the dissolution of ULITU began. As of January 1, 1998, there were 122 forest correctional colonies with a total number of prisoners of 46.6 thousand people.
DVK - children's educational colony. (see "Bark beetle", VTK).
Deza - disinformation deliberately transmitted instead of truthful information.
DISO (o) - disciplinary isolation ward. A cell for holding violators of the detention regime in the VTK. It differs from ShIZO in a milder regime of detention. For example, the maximum term of the DIZO is ten days (in the ShIZO - fifteen). On July 1, 1997, the maximum sentence of the DIZO was reduced to 7 days.
Disbats are disciplinary battalions. Special military units, where, by a court decision, military personnel who have committed minor crimes are sent (for a period of up to three years). These are closed prisons.
DC (c) - children's colony.
burglar (t) - an apartment thief.
DPNC (o) - duty assistant to the head of the colony. An employee of the ITC, an officer who directly monitors the situation in a particular ITC.
DPNSI (o) - duty assistant to the head of the pre-trial detention center (SIZO). A position similar to that of the DPNK.
DTK (o) - children's labor colony. In the 30-50s - a camp for juvenile delinquents.
Fool (r) - 1) Under investigation, directed to a psychiatric examination.
2) A person under investigation who has passed a psychiatric examination and was declared insane at the time of the crime (admitted fools, recognized).
3) A prisoner who is recognized as mentally ill after the appropriate conclusion of a commission of psychiatrists.
Dushnyak (r) - the creation of particularly unbearable conditions for one, several prisoners or for the entire colony in order to achieve a change in the behavior of prisoners. Dushnyak can be cop (created by the administration) or zek (in relation to one prisoner or a group of prisoners).
EPKT (o) - a single chamber-type room. Until July 1, 1997, the legislation provided for only PKT - structural units of specific ITUs, the inner prison of the colony. EPKT is a structural subdivision of not a separate ITU, but a regional department for the execution of sentences. The first EPKT was created in 1980 in Solikamsk (Usolsky ULITU) as an experiment on the basis of the CCI (transit point) of the same department. Among the prisoners, it is better known as the White Swan. In 1988, by order of the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs A.V. Vlasov, similar institutions were created in 7 departments of GULITU. In the programs of reorganization of the GUIN of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the 1994s, it is planned to create institutions of this type at 18 regional and forest penitentiary institutions.
How else is EPKT different from just PKT? When placed in the PKT, the convict is not transported from the penitentiary where he is serving his sentence, the same educator (head of the detachment) works with him, he contacts only with the convicts of his penitentiary, his postal address does not change, etc. When a prisoner is sentenced to EPKT, he is transferred to another city, sometimes another region, and in fact experiences the same thing as prisoners who are transferred from a colony to a prison-type institution (covered). Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs explain the emergence of EPKT in forestry departments by the fact that not all forest ITCs had enough premises for PKT. In the official documents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the EPKT is entrusted with the following task: "Isolation of convicts who actively oppose the administration of the ITU in ensuring law and order." Meanwhile, the law provides for prison-type institutions (covered) to carry out this task. True, the prison regime "convicted, actively opposing ..." is appointed by a court decision. To be sent to the EPKT, which is almost no different from prison-type institutions, only the decision of the head of the penal colony is required. Thus, one of the goals of the EPKT (in the first period of their existence before being fixed in the Penal Code of the Russian Federation in 1997) is to create opportunities for penitentiary workers to act outside the norms of the law, without any control over their actions.
There are also several other tasks performed by these semi-legitimate "experimental" institutions, which are not mentioned in the "program". In the secret instructions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, EPKT are referred to as "preventive centers for conducting corruptive work with negatively minded convicts." This semi-legitimate "experimental" institution actually performs the following tasks:
1. Recruitment of agents for operational services. The recruits are subsequently sent to various ITUs and placed at the disposal of the operational-search services in the wild.
2. Carrying out operational work among convicts suspected of committing unsolved crimes, with the subsequent initiation of criminal cases.
3. Intimidation of convicts held in ordinary penitentiary institutions. The threat of being sent to EPKT is very effective way influence on prisoners whose behavior for some reason does not suit the administration of the correctional facility.
It is clear that the task of uncovering offenses in the EPKT is solved outside the procedural rules established by law for ordinary investigation and inquiry. To recruit agents and solve crimes, the EPKT uses "various forms of psychological and regime influence" - this is how the professional jargon of opers refers to illegal ways of obtaining confessions, necessary information or changing the behavior of the object of operational work in the right direction. Such methods include not only "educational conversations", but also press chambers, torture, and beatings. The employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs constantly refer to positive effect experiments with EPKT in terms of "improving the operational situation in ITU." These statements should be treated with caution. Firstly, in the departmental evaluation of the results of "experiments" carried out by the same department, quite often any given indicators are organized. Secondly, the selected evaluation criteria (the number of offenses and disciplinary violations committed in the ITU) allow us to assess only the immediate, and not the long-term consequences of a particular experiment. It can be noted, for example, that the number of leaders of "negative groups" has constantly increased over the years of the existence of the EPKT. It does not take into account the fact that as a result of "corruption work" society receives completely degraded people, ready for the most cruel crimes.
Rogue (t) - see thieves.
Fill up, fill up the muffler - kill.
Blanked camera - a cell in which prisoners who decide to break out of other cells are kept.
Law (r) - a system of informal norms, rules, attitudes, sanctions against violators, procedures for resolving conflicts, introducing new norms, etc., operating in the community of prisoners (prison law) or within a separate group, caste of prisoners (for example, thieves' law ).
finish (r): objects, and especially food, touched by the lowered person are taboo for other groups of prisoners; such things are called "finished", that is, dirty, spoiled, representing a danger to normal people.
close (t, s) - put in a punishment cell.
soak (t) - kill.
Zapadlo (r) - violations of prison norms, which can be different for prisoners of different groups (colors). "Not zapadlo" - that is, an act in accordance with these standards.
prohibition (t, s), restricted lane (o) - a strip of earth dug up and leveled with a rake, well preserving the traces of someone who stepped on it; located between the fences surrounding all ITU or industrial and residential areas. The processing of the forbidden strip (digging, loosening, leveling the earth) is the responsibility of guarding the colony. According to the correct concepts, a prisoner who agreed to do this work (“go out on the ban”) is considered a goat (for goats and lowered, this work is not considered shameful).
"Kicking out for a ban" is one of the ways the administration of the ITU struggles with the informal prison law. Currently, the work of prisoners in "security facilities" is prohibited by law. However, the administration of the colonies continues to use various methods to suppress those who adhere to the prison law (see bedside table, SPP). Those who refuse to perform shameful, from the point of view of the prison law, work are usually punished by being placed in a punishment cell, they are pressed. This is also one of the ways that the administration detects denials.
mine - the same as getting dirty, finishing up - getting into contact with the lowered person, his things or a place on the bunk, in other words - defiling.
correspondence student - a woman who enters into correspondence with a prisoner in absentia, without being personally acquainted with him. Sometimes such correspondence lasts for years and - there are cases - it ends with the creation of a family. For the prisoner, this is a very important means of restoring lost ties with outside world.
sharpening - an iron rod, pointed at one end, a weapon used in internecine clashes and during riots.
zachushkanit (t) - approximately the same as finishing, i.e. desecrate, defile. An "infested" item can sometimes be used after a ritual cleansing. See also ingot.
sour (t) - the same as finishing. See skvarnoy.
Zeke, convict (g, s) - prisoner, prisoners. From the obsolete official abbreviation z / k ("prisoned canal soldier"), which appeared on the construction of the White Sea Canal in the 30s. Currently, the law refers to prisoners as persons under investigation, defendants, held in custody, and after the entry into force of the sentence - convicted.
ZNRS (c) - a malicious violator of the containment regime.
Zone - 1) (o) A part of the IUT, fenced off from the rest of the territory. For example, residential area, industrial area, restricted area, local area, etc.
2) (r, s) The general name of places of deprivation of liberty. Separate ITK. In prison slang, it is used with the preposition "on". For example, go to the zone, climb the zone, etc. The zones are subdivided by the prisoners themselves, depending on which of the suits occupies a dominant position in it, into: red, goat; black, thieves, thieves; peasant.
IVS (o) - a temporary detention center (see the bullpen).
Insulator (s, t) - the same as ShIZO.
TIC (o) - corrective labor colony, the general name of camp-type institutions for adult convicts. Correctional labor camps are subdivided into general regime colonies (for men convicted of minor crimes for the first time, and for all women, with the exception of those recognized by the court as especially dangerous recidivists), enhanced regime (for men convicted of serious crimes for the first time), strict regime (for men who have already serving a sentence of imprisonment, and for women recognized by the court as especially dangerous recidivists), a special regime (for men recognized as especially dangerous recidivists) and colony-settlements (semi-closed institutions for those convicted for the first time for unintentional crimes or for prisoners transferred by decision courts from general, enhanced and strict regime colonies). The ITK regime is assigned to the convict by the court. Penitentiaries of various regimes differ in the conditions of detention.
There are also specialized ITCs (for tuberculosis patients, the disabled), forest ITCs, and ITCs for former law enforcement officers and stateless persons. The decision on referral to a specialized correctional labor camp or a prison hospital is made by the administration of the correctional facility or pre-trial detention center.
The mode of maintenance (the number of parcels and transfers, visits, telephone conversations, etc.) is tightened from the general to the special.
Prisoners of the special regime are kept in locked cells (for 20-50 people), other regimes - in hostels (prisoners call them "barracks"). Dormitories in hostels are designed for 20-150 people, beds are arranged in two or three tiers. In addition to sleeping rooms in the hostel for every 150-200 people ("detachment"), there are: a room for storing personal belongings; dressing room (for outerwear); room for eating (with a device for boiling water, cabinets for food); "red corner" (the former name - "Lenin's room"), where political classes and cultural events are usually held, tables, shelves for books, a radio speaker, a TV set (if available); sometimes (in those rare cases when there is sewerage in the penitentiary) - a toilet. The statutory norm of living space is 2 sq. m per person. In the colonies of all regimes, except for the special one, in front of the dormitory there is a small area for walking ("local zone") fenced with a fence, designed for 200-600 people. In the daytime, free from work and events, prisoners have the right to leave the hostel in the "local zone". In the rest of the territory of the colony, prisoners can only move in formation with permission from the administration. The number of prisoners in one correctional colony: from 500 to 3000 (more often - within 1500-2000 people).
ITK is divided into industrial (production premises are located here) and residential areas. Between these zones a fence is installed, rows of barbed wire are stretched, between them there is a corridor, sometimes shot through by guard soldiers. The residential zone is divided, in turn, into a number of local zones where hostels are located. In addition, on the territory of the residential area there is usually a canteen, a club, a library, a school, an outpatient clinic (medical unit), sometimes a small hospital (for 10-30 people), a bathhouse, and a headquarters in which premises for administrative workers are located. Penitentiaries usually have rooms for short-term (from 2 to 4 hours) and long-term (from 1 to 3 days) visits.
There are also premises for disciplinary punishments in the correctional colony: ShIZO (penalty isolator, here the period of detention of the punished is up to 15 days) and PKT (cell-type premises, the period of detention is up to six months). Until 1988, inmates of the ShIZO and PKT were given a reduced dietary allowance. There were a number of other restrictions (lack of bed linen, walking, correspondence, books, smoking, parcels and transfers, etc.). In Russia, some of these restrictions were abolished in 1992. However, in 1993, a reduced dietary norm (though not as severe as before) was reintroduced by order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
On January 1, 1997, the ITK was renamed into IK (Correctional Colonies).
ITK RSFSR (o) - the corrective labor code of the RSFSR. AT former USSR each republic had its own ITK, developed on the basis of the Fundamentals of Corrective Labor Legislation of the USSR. From 1.07.97. the Criminal Executive Code of the Russian Federation came into force - the Penal Code of the Russian Federation.
ITU (o) - corrective labor institutions, the general name of institutions for the execution of criminal punishment. These, in addition to all types of ITCs, include VTC, LTP, prison, medical type IU. On January 1, 1997, the ITU was renamed into IU (Correctional Institutions).
hospital-type ITU - hospitals for prisoners in need of serious treatment or examination. Almost all regional and forest departments of ITU have their own hospitals for prisoners. Hospital-type ITUs have departments for convicts of various regimes, women and minors. Content - chamber.
Gimp - violation of the rules of relations, harm to one prisoner by another or others. (See mess).
Capo (r) - 1) A prisoner who voluntarily cooperates with the administration of the ITU. 2) Scammer, informant (B). The term appeared in concentration camps in Germany during the Third Reich.
Kentovka - the same as family, family (see).
Goat (r) - a representative of a group in the informal hierarchy of prisoners, formed on the basis of: open cooperation (in the present or in the past) with the ITU administration. This group emerged from the prisoner community in the 1960s. In contrast to the activist of the 1930s and 1950s, the status of a goat becomes almost permanent for a prisoner, accompanying him throughout his stay in places of deprivation of liberty.
The appearance of the goat caste is apparently connected with the reaction of the prison subculture to the penitentiary policy of the Soviet government in the early 60s.
A formal act that includes a prisoner in the caste of goats may be joining "amateur organizations of convicts", agreeing to take a position or perform work that is considered shameful according to the right concepts. All this is a necessary condition for receiving a number of benefits from the administration, the right to occupy certain "nomenklatura" positions, to move into the category of persons "firmly embarking on the path of correction," and, therefore, to become a candidate for early release or pardon.
For the majority of prisoners, goats are traitors to the interests of the prisoner community, collaborators.
The word goat is one of the most serious insults for a prisoner who does not belong to this group. The prisoner, who was so named, is obliged to react immediately and harshly (hit or even kill the offender), otherwise he risks his reputation and lowering his status. The word goat and its derivatives (goat, goat, goat and even horned) are taboo, and they are forbidden to be used in everyday speech. For example, a game of dominoes, known by that name in the wild, is called "one hundred and one" in prison, to tell another that he has some thing made of goat hair means to insult him.
Interestingly, in the 1930s and 1950s passive homosexuals were called goats in the camp (see ZhR).
Prisoners belonging to this group prefer to use various euphemisms when referring to themselves: activist, red, "independent man", "positive". The same euphemisms in a calm situation are used by other prisoners in the presence of goats.
Trump Fraer - authoritative thieves, a step in the hierarchy of thieves, immediately following the title of thief. (See Thief, thug).
The colony - settlement, settlement - see ITC.
Counterparty (colloquially counterparty) (o) - each of the parties to the contract in relation to each other. The official term from the everyday life of Soviet officials National economy, (so, for example, a factory supplying parts for cars assembled by prisoners, or a representative of this factory, could be designated). Today, this word in colloquial speech is being replaced by the term "business partner" everywhere.
Controller (o) - an employee of the prison supervision service. Its functions include maintaining order on the territory of the ITU, pre-trial detention center, conducting searches, etc.
Horse (t) - a method of illegal communication between cameras. For example, string stretched along the outer side of the prison body between the cell windows, fishing line passed through sewer pipes, etc. With the help of a horse, notes, small things, etc. are transferred from cell to cell. Wed with ZHR: "a small parcel smuggled secretly, usually tied to a thread, which is thrown out of the cell window."
bark beetle (t), special school, special vocational school (n) - penitentiary institutions for juvenile delinquents of a semi-open type. Children from 11 to 14 years old are kept in special schools, and adolescents from 14 to 18 years old who have committed criminal or status violations (i.e. violations for which only adolescents and children are punished, adults for the same actions are not subject to punishment) : absenteeism, bad behavior at school and in the family, being drunk on the street, running away from home, etc.). All children from the age of 14 and the main part (up to 90%) under the age of 18 end up in special institutions by decision of administrative bodies - commissions for minors under the executive committees of local councils. In this case, children and most adolescents are practically deprived of the right to defense, their guilt is proved in the absence of a lawyer, the usual procedures for a judicial investigation are not obligatory, and there is no right of appeal. The term of punishment in special institutions is arbitrary, it can be extended on the proposal of the teachers' councils up to three years, and sometimes even more. It is not uncommon for the re-education of the punished to take place away from home, which makes it difficult for him to contact his family and relatives.
Special schools and special vocational schools are under the departmental affiliation of the Ministry of Education, however, in terms of conditions of detention, isolation regime, social microclimate, forced labor, most of these institutions are not much different from VTK. Rape, torture and beatings of the bulk of pupils by a group of children or adolescents who enjoy the patronage of educators (the principle of Soviet pedagogy is collective education), and sometimes by the educators themselves, are also widespread here.
cant (r) - 1) Violation of the rules, norms of the prison law.
2) The armband of a member of the SPP or other section with the appropriate abbreviation. Most often blue.
3) Unsuccessful action or deed.
4) Cigarettes or cigarettes with marijuana.
Kosyachny (t) - a person who constantly commits acts that are contrary to the norms generally accepted in the community of prisoners.
bullpen (o) - a pre-trial detention cell, a room for holding detainees at the scene of a crime, suspected of committing a crime, etc. The term of detention in the penitentiary usually does not exceed 3 days, but can be extended up to 10, and in special cases - up to 30 days. From the detention facility, the arrested person is either released, or, on the sanction of the prosecutor, is transferred to a pre-trial detention center. Currently, the penal facility is called the "temporary detention center", IVS. About 4 million people pass through temporary detention facilities every year. The average daily number in 1997 was 65,000 prisoners. However, the group of prisoners held in temporary detention facilities is not included in the official statistics.
red zone - a zone where the administration rules with the help of goats and, ignoring the prison law, for example, tries to seat those lowered in the dining room at common tables, requires that prisoners go to the dining room and from the dining room in formation, prohibits movement around the zone, entering other people's barracks and other
In such a zone, activists have broad powers and can behave very aggressively, surveillance of each other, denunciation, and petty nitpicking about the behavior and clothes of prisoners are encouraged.
Red (t) is a euphemism for the word goat.
Crosses - the central prison in St. Petersburg. The name that the prison received due to the cruciform arrangement of its buildings, it bears from the moment it was opened (at the beginning of the 20th century)
A circle - education wider than family or kentovka; formed most often on the principle of community.
Wing (put on a wing) - a bandage on the sleeve, meaning the entry of the prisoner into the asset, i.e., in prison jargon, into the goats.
covered (t, s) - prison-type correctional facility for those convicted of serious crimes or sent to prison by court order from the correctional colony for systematic violations of the detention regime. In Russia, there are only 15 covered ones.
Xiva (r) - 1) Note, letter. It is transmitted illegally from cell to cell, from camp to camp, from prison to freedom and vice versa. Often contains important information about events and persons, sometimes - instructions from authoritative ones (see thieves' orders). Ksivy are also purely personal content. Constant communication between camps and prisons scattered throughout the country is carried out with the help of ksiv. Synonym - "baby, little one".
2) Document, identity card.
Qom (r) - an employee of the operational part of the ITU or pre-trial detention center. See also opera.
Kumovskaya mutka, Kumovskaya weed - provocations arranged in the zone by operatives to achieve their goals. They may consist in pitting various groups of prisoners against each other, spreading compromising rumors about zone authorities, etc., which can cause unrest and even a riot in the zone, during the suppression of which objectionable persons are eliminated, etc. Smaller provocations with the same purpose (intimidation or "neutralization" of objectionable persons) are called nepotism gadgets or jokes. They may consist in planting drugs on a prisoner, for example, with the subsequent discovery of them in his possession and appropriate sanctions against him.
Stall, chest (t, s) - 1) A store for prisoners in the ITU, where purchases are made by bank transfer.
2) Products, smoke, etc., purchased by the prisoner officially in the ITU shop. For the bulk of the prisoners, there are restrictions both in the amount they can spend each month on buying a stall, and in the fact that only money earned in the ITU can be used.
Persons who have firmly embarked on the path of correction (o) - convicts who, according to the conclusion of the relevant officer of the correctional institution, have corrected themselves, ceased to be criminal. Two wordings are usually used in characterizations or references to a prisoner: "firmly embarked on the path of correction" or "did not embark on the path of correction." In practice, these formulations have nothing to do with the actual criminality of the prisoner. "Firmly embarked on the path of correction" means that the prisoner is a collaborator, cooperates with the administration, or (less often) does not belong to the negative group. An activist can come to the camp for committed crimes for the fifth or tenth time, and still be considered "firmly on the path of correction." Unfortunately, no relevant statistics are available, but according to some estimates, recidivism among those who have embarked on the path of correction is higher than the average for all prisoners.
locale (t, s), local zone (o) - this is the name of the sections of the residential area fenced off from each other, where barracks for one or two detachments are located; a measure taken to limit contact between prisoners and reduce the likelihood of mass excesses.
local tower (o) - a tower with a cabin in which a prisoner appointed by the administration ("key keeper") is on duty and in which there is a local telephone connecting him with the supervision or headquarters. Its functions include: monitoring the general order in the residential area, reporting to the supervisory service about the observed disturbances, excesses, etc. He usually opens the gates from the local zones, the gates of the residential area from the control panel.
breaking (t, s) - 1) Various, as a rule, latent ways of influencing the prisoner in order to force him to abandon the correct concepts. In special "prophylactic" penitentiary institutions (for example, "White Swan", covered) from the "negative prisoner" is usually forced to sign a statement about his renunciation of the "thieves' ideas." Such a statement is usually used for educational work with other prisoners, reading out the "repudiation" on the local radio or before the formation in those ITUs where the "broken" prisoner is known. In fact, such an action does not lead to re-education, but to embitterment of the prisoners, they are well aware of the methods by which they achieve the signing of these statements. See also press, press chamber, ban, bedside table, SPP, broom.
2) The state of withdrawal after stopping the use of drugs or alcohol.
health care facility - local prophylactic site. This is a specially allocated local zone of the ITU, intended, according to the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, for "containment of malicious violators of the detention regime." LPU, they believe, allows "to reduce the negative impact of the more criminogenic part of the convicts on the bulk." In a number of ITUs, prisoners placed in health care facilities are kept in cell-type rooms. The creation of health care facilities in each institution is "one of the main directions" of the concept of reorganization of the penal system, developed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. By 1995, health care facilities were established in more than 300 institutions. Both subjectively and objectively, placement in a medical facility is a punishment for the convict. Here, isolation is much stricter, the possibilities of the convict in moving around the territory of the colony and choosing a job are limited. In practice, illegal methods of suppression are more often used here (for example, the entry of DOS fighters and mass beatings) and the so-called. "decomposable ways of working with prisoners."
The current corrective labor code for the same purposes ("detention of malicious violators of the detention regime ...", etc.) provides for ShIZO and PKT, they do not need to be created, they are already in every correctional institution. Why was it necessary to reinvent the wheel, to create outside the law something provided for by law?
The answer to this question will be easier to find if we take into account that the placement of a convicted person in a ShIZO and PKT is a type of punishment for a specific disciplinary violation committed by a convicted person (or a system of violations), which involves the implementation of certain procedures (drawing up a decision, drawing up an act on a committed violation, obtaining explanations from the punished, etc.). This punishment may be appealed by the convict in the manner prescribed by law. In addition, the period of placement in the ShIZO and PKT is strictly limited (in ShIZO - fifteen days at a time and two months per year, in PKT - six months). Placement in a medical facility, since it is not provided for by law, does not require anything of the kind: neither a specific violation, nor a procedural formalization. It is not limited to any specific period and cannot be appealed by the convict. Apparently, this is why the creation of medical facilities is considered "one of the main directions" in the proposals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. See also EPKT.
On July 1, 1997, health care facilities were legalized by the Penal Code of the Russian Federation, now they are called SUS zones (strict conditions of detention).
LTP (o) - medical and labor dispensary. A closed institution where chronic alcoholics (less often drug addicts) who have not committed any crime are kept by court order. Since 1994 institutions of this type have been disbanded in Russia.
People - in the old terminology - thieves, thieves. Now rarely used.
youngster(t, s) - 1) a minor prisoner.
2) The totality of special (correctional) institutions for juvenile offenders (special schools, special vocational schools and VTK), as well as the entire contingent of persons contained in them. At a young age, the regime of detention, food and conditions are better than in the ITU for adult prisoners. However, from the point of view of preserving the life, health, and personality of a prisoner, a youngster is the most terrible part of the Gulag. Bullying, beatings, torture, torture, rape (of some prisoners by others) is the daily reality of this type of institution.
3) Part of the special section in the pre-trial detention center for juvenile prisoners.
Malyava - a note, a letter, in contrast to a ksiva of a more private nature, but in some cases the words are also used interchangeably.
Mother (t) - one of the informal leaders in the omitted caste. Paired with another leader (dad) decides all issues in this informal group of prisoners. Unlike the pope, he deals with the economic problems of the omitted and issues related to the sale, supply of his wards to thieves as a sexual object. The pope resolves conflicts between the downtrodden, appeals to authorities in the case when his wards are treated in violation of the correct concepts (for example, they do not pay for sexual services rendered, etc.). The Pope is the plenipotentiary of those lowered in contacts with the leaders of other informal groups. More often, the functions of father and mother are performed by one person - the head rooster.
Suit (r) - 1) This or that group, caste in the informal hierarchy of prisoners. In the prison world, there are four main castes (in order of decreasing status): thieves (black), men (gray), goats (red), lowered (blue). Each caste within has its own hierarchy. The prison subculture is extremely conservative, vertical transitions (raising status) are extremely difficult or even impossible. The existence of suits is recognized and taken into account by the IT staff. For example, before sending a punished prisoner to a ShIZO or PKT cell, the duty officer asks about his suit (prisoners of different groups are kept in different cells).
According to ZhR: "suit is a social stratum in the prison-camp world."
2) The status of a prisoner in the informal hierarchy (man, thug, etc.).
Mattress, twist through the mattress - since new regulations prohibit keeping a prisoner in a ShIZO or PTK for longer than a certain period, as well as extending this period without leaving the isolation ward, the administration invented this method - "twist through the mattress" (twist, unwind - and means receiving a new term without leaving the place of detention ; cm.). The prisoner is released into the zone and allowed to spend the night on his mattress, after which they give him a new term and again close him in the isolation ward.
Mattress - a mattress cover, in which the prisoner puts his and state belongings, going to the cell or from one cell to another.
Makhnovists - see Polish thieves. With the name of N.I. Makhno, the connection of this concept, presumably, is accidental.
Ment (t) - an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Broom (t, s) - 1) Language. See watch your broom.
2) One of the ways to break a prisoner who adheres to the correct concepts. Among the peasants and thieves, the work associated with sweeping the territory of the penal colony is considered shameful. The ITU staff know that picking up a broom lowers the informal status of a prisoner, and put him before a choice: either go with a broom to the parade ground (where all the prisoners line up, it is not at all necessary to actually sweep the territory), or be sent to the ShIZO. See also stool, prohibition, SPP.
Mokrushnik (t) - killer.
Wet business (t) - murder.
Guys (r) - 1) The general name of the largest group in the informal hierarchy of prisoners. They differ from thieves in that, according to prison law, they work in the zone in ordinary positions, and from goats in that they do not cooperate with the administration. The peasants do not claim any power, they do not serve anyone, but they do not interfere in the affairs of the thieves (except in the case of thieves' lawlessness). All other groups of prisoners listen to the opinion of authoritative men. The majority of men adhere to the correct concepts.
2) The common name of all prisoners, except those omitted.
Trash - the same as a cop - a policeman.
Supervision - the release of a prisoner on the condition that he be registered with the police at his place of residence at large and with the obligation to check in every day at a certain time with the officer supervising him. He is forbidden to leave his place of residence after a certain set time and be out of the house, for example, late in the evening or at night. Violation of the rules of supervision previously entailed a court order and the appointment of a new term.
supervision (t, s) - a room for the supervision service.
Supervision service, supervision staff (o) - a service that exercises daily control over the behavior of prisoners, compliance with the regime of detention, etc. It consists of conscripts and extra-conscripts of the escort troops. The supervision service is subordinated to the head of the escort troops, and not to the head of the ITU.
Hitting - aggressive provocation towards a person from other people; for example, the presentation of some unreasonable demands or accusations in order to intimidate this person or provoke him to resist, as a result, it will be possible to beat him, take away some things or draw up a decree and lock him in a detention center, arrange a search, etc.
mother hen (t, s) - an agent of the opera, planted in a investigative cell to "split" the defendants or a specific prisoner. In addition to obtaining the necessary information about the crime committed, sometimes it has the task of exerting psychological pressure on a cellmate in order to persuade him to give the testimony necessary for the investigator.
Production rate - the amount of production that the prisoner must produce in a unit of time (shift, month). For non-fulfillment of the production norm, the prisoner may be punished in one way or another. The rate of production for prisoners is usually higher than in the wild. This is partly due to the fact that during the period under review, the annual balance of time for prisoners was significantly higher than in the wild, because. the prisoners did not have vacation, and their working week was 48 hours (outside - 41). Among other punishments, prisoners who did not fulfill the production standards could also be deprived of the so-called "guarantee" - crediting to their account "guarantee": 10% of the monthly salary, regardless of any other circumstances (repayment by them of a lawsuit , alimony payments, etc.). This procedure was changed after the adoption by the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation of the "Law of the Russian Federation "On the introduction of amendments and additions to the Correctional Labor Code of the RSFSR, the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR" (June 12, 1992).
obizhenka (t) - a cell for prisoners who managed to "escape" (during a check, taking them out for a walk, making an appointment with the opera, etc.) from the former cell. In prison slang, "escape" sounds like this: "break out of the cell." This action, connected with the appeal for help in resolving the conflict with cellmates to the administration, is considered, according to the correct concepts, a jamb. Prison law prescribes to resolve any kind of internal conflicts to turn to the authorities. An exception to this rule is the case of "breaking out" from the press chamber (but on the condition that the "breaking out" prisoner resists placing him in the wrong). Prisoners expelled ("broke out") from the cell are sometimes also placed in the offence.
Offended (r) - 1) A prisoner of resentment or sitting in resentment.
2) In some regions, the same as omitted.
3. Euphemism of words omitted, rooster.
1. In some zones, the pre-trial detention center is not lowered, but simply humiliated, "put on a broom", deprived of his caste rights; he can look for excuses and satisfaction and "get" off offenders.
obshchak - 1) TIC of general regime.
2) A multi-seat (for 20-30 or more people) cell in a pre-trial detention center.
3) A group of authoritative thieves.
4) The order in which all the products entering the cell, tea, smoke are distributed equally among all prisoners (except for the lowered ones).
5) Illegal prisoner mutual aid fund. May consist of money, food, tea, smoke, things, etc. According to the prison law, contributions to the common fund must be made exclusively on a voluntary basis by peasants and thieves. Obshchak funds are used for general needs (for example, bribing employees of the correctional colony, prisoners from household services, etc.), to help prisoners in distress: primarily those held in ShIZO and PKT, prisoners sent to a covered or hospital; beginners who do not have outside help, etc. Although the obshchak is intended for prisoners who live according to the correct concepts (men and thieves), exceptions are sometimes made to this rule: some part of the heat from the obshchak sent to the ShIZO and PKT must be distributed between the goats kept there and the goats. In practice, many of the above principles (voluntariness of contributions, equality in receiving assistance, etc.) are violated.
Looking after the community - this, as a rule, is a thieves appointed at the gangway. The beholder selects his assistants to raise funds. Participation in the collection, distribution, storage of the obshchak is severely persecuted by the administration.
Goats and lowered ones can have their own common funds.
Obshchakovy (t) - related to the common fund, i.e. illegal prisoner mutual aid fund.
Public - asset, members of public amateur organizations or sections. In the language of the administration - a word colored positively, in the language of prisoners who are not included in the sections - ironic.
Public amateur organizations - see SVP, SPP. "Amateur" they can be called very conditionally, because. and in the 1970s and 1980s, the administration used an arsenal of coercive means to replenish them, from bribery to threats and direct pressure. These organizations served as an indicator of the educational work of the administration with prisoners, and therefore a fantastic goal was sometimes set - to drive the entire population of the ITU without exception into them, which, in turn, caused resistance by all means, up to strikes and riots. (See Amateur organizations of prisoners).
General mode - Penitentiary for first-time convicted (pioneers) or for non-serious crimes. It is distinguished by a large number of diverse and often meaningless customs and rituals, as well as self-proclaimed leaders and false thieves.
OID (see GUIN).
OMON - special police unit (special forces). Parts of the Russian police, created to perform particularly difficult tasks (fighting organized crime, preventing mass riots, detaining armed criminals, etc.).
Prisoners often refer to OMON as special forces created under the regional departments of the ITU to suppress riots, free hostages, etc. Since 1991, these detachments have been used for preventive purposes to intimidate prisoners in the ITU, where, in the opinion of the administration, a dangerous situation has developed.
OER (o) - a particularly dangerous recidivist. See mansion.
Oper (g, s) - an employee of the operational service.
Operational service (o) - a structural unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, engaged in the prevention and disclosure of offenses. Widely uses undercover methods of work. Each ITU or pre-trial detention center has an operational unit that should control the general situation in the institution, prevent crimes, all kinds of excesses, uncover previously committed crimes, and collect information about the leaders of the underworld. The operational unit has a large staff of agents among the prisoners (according to some estimates, from 2 to 5% of the number of convicts): informers and provocateurs; makes extensive use of illegal methods of influencing prisoners that are beyond the control of supervisory authorities (setting various groups of prisoners against each other, using thieves to intimidate other prisoners, press cameras, etc.). See, for example, "Spark", 1990, ??35-36, "Diary of an informer".
Operational-search activity - the activities of the police, including the initial work with the offense:
departure to the scene;
preparation of documents on the incident;
activities to detect the perpetrators of the incident (inquiry);
preparation of documents for submission to the investigation.
Lower (t, s) - 1) Lower the status in the informal hierarchy of prisoners. (Deprecated).
2) Transfer to the caste of untouchables (lowered, roosters) - rape or perform a ritual associated with the transfer of a prisoner to the untouchable caste. At the same time, rituals replacing rape are often used: the prisoner is put on a bucket with a piece of bread, poured with water from the bucket, forced to drink water from the bucket, carried out with a phallus, a towel moistened with sperm, on the lips, anus, etc.
lowered (t, s) - a representative of the lowest group in the informal hierarchy of prisoners, a kind of untouchable caste. You can’t take anything from the lowered one, you can’t touch him, sit on his bunk, etc. The lowered have their own separate places in the barracks, prison cell, in the dining room, their own labeled dishes, they do the dirtiest work - those for which other prisoners no longer have the right to take on. They have certain identification marks, they are obliged to report, upon arrival at a place where they are not known, that they are lowered, so that other prisoners, having entered into communication with them, do not lose their status. It is useless and dangerous for a lowered person to hide his status, sooner or later his past becomes known, and then the revealed lowered ones are punished, beaten, sometimes they are killed. It is believed that he squashed everyone who communicated with him, sat next to him. The status of a lowered person is for life, say, a break in a prison career does not change him.
It is a very common misconception that only passive homosexuals fall into the omitted ones. According to some estimates, there are no more than 20% of voluntary homosexuals among the omitted (although a person who was a passive homosexual in the wild and could not hide it becomes omitted). Transfer to the omitted is made, as a rule, for gross violations of the prison law: denunciation, rat-keeping, unpaid card debt, lawlessness in relation to other prisoners. They lower pressers, goats, woolen, those who committed shameful, from the point of view of correct concepts, crimes (rape of children, brutal rape of women, brutal unmotivated murder, depraved acts with minors, etc.), former employees The Ministry of Internal Affairs, a soldier of the internal troops who ended up in an ordinary prison cell ... A prisoner who feels the seriousness of the violation he has committed sometimes prefers to voluntarily transfer to the caste of the lowered (say, transfer his belongings to the corner of the barracks where the lowered live). In this case, he, as a rule, is not subjected to any ritual procedures or rape.
It should be noted that in institutions for juvenile delinquents and pioneers, the ritual-symbolic motivation in relation to the omitted prevails over the semantic motivation. The very distinctive features of the untouchable caste here acquire a mystical meaning, separate from the objects they designate (see finish). For example, a person who has not committed any special violations of the prison law (raped in a press chamber, accidentally entered into unlawful contact with a lowered person) falls into the untouchable caste. This is not seen as a punishment, but as an accident that makes a person "crippled" for life. The very transfer to the caste of the omitted is often accomplished with the help of rituals (see omitted), forcing one to recall the customs that exist in primitive tribes.
The downcast caste appeared in the community of prisoners in the 60s, perhaps as a reaction of the prisoner subculture to the new penitentiary policy of the authorities. The struggle for the preservation of personality in conditions when the administration of the ITU used the most cruel methods of pressure on prisoners in order to force them to commit immoral, from the point of view of traditional culture, acts, led to the invention of their own informal sanction for "apostates", this is a kind of ostracism, moral exile from the community in conditions where real expulsion is impossible. It is also possible that during the period of the establishment of amateur organizations of convicts, those who became their members first began to be subjected to punishment in the form of rape. Recall that the current name of the caste of collaborators (goats) belonged to passive homosexuals in the 40-50s.
By the way, the guardians of the prison law, the traditions of the prison world, argue that the punishment of transferring a person to a caste lowered according to the correct concepts is considered unacceptable. According to their version, the caste of the downtrodden was "invented by the cops" and brought into the prison world with the help of pressers, woolen, lawless people. It must be said that the administration of the ITU is very willing to use the institution of those who are lowered to break the recalcitrant. One of the worst threats for a negative person is rape in the press chamber. After the rape, operas can offer the raped a kind of gentleman's agreement: no one will know about what happened if the prisoner agrees to become his agent or sign a statement about renunciation of thieves' ideas. The threat of being lowered is also used by the investigators. It should also be added that the main suppliers to the caste of the downtrodden are institutions for juvenile delinquents, first-timers and press chambers. Cases of application of the sanction of lowering among repeat offenders are extremely rare and are more the exception (violation of the prison law) than the rule. The attitude towards those lowered into the ITU among recidivists is not as cruel and sadistic as it is in the youngsters and in the ITU of general regime, although some norms that are taboo in nature, defining the "untouchability" of the lowered, are preserved.
Within the group of the downtrodden there is a hierarchy, reminiscent of the informal hierarchy of the entire community of prisoners. It has its own informal leaders (chief roosters, dads, moms) with their surroundings, ordinary downtrodden and roosters, who are pushed around by everyone in this group (sold as a sexual object, forced to work for themselves, raped, tortured). The informal leaders of the lowered most often include former thieves who were lowered for any jambs (failure to pay a card debt, snitching, etc.), as well as those raped or otherwise lowered in the press chambers.
DOS - Special Forces. See OMON.
mansion (r) - 1) ITK special regime.
2) A particularly dangerous recidivist (OOR). The offender may be recognized as an OOR by a court decision for previous repeated convictions. Often people who do not pose a particular danger, but who have more than one camp term in the past, fall into this category.
"They tell me: - Did you kill someone? - Yes, I didn’t kill anyone. I stole pears! - And why are you "especially dangerous"? - Because you climbed into the same barn many times!" (Fragment from an interview with a particularly dangerous recidivist).
convict (r) - a cell in a pre-trial detention center where prisoners are kept in respect of whom a court verdict has been issued, but has not yet entered into legal force.
Convicted (o) - the official name of the prisoner in respect of which the judgment has entered into legal force. Self-name of prisoners in dialogue with officials ("Citizen chief, convicted Arab-ogly arrived at your order"). In the speech of prisoners, the emphasis is on the letter "y": "convicted".
merchandise, merchandise (r) - the monthly purchase by prisoners of food in the camp shop (stall) for a strictly defined amount of money.
Negative (s, t), negative convicts (o) - prisoners who, from the point of view of the administration of the correctional institution, interfere with its work, negatively affect other convicts. All prisoners are divided by ITU workers and scientists of the Ministry of Internal Affairs into three groups: positive (helping them in their work), neutral (not interfering), negative. Not only thieves, but also all objectionable administrations get into the negative (for example, those who file complaints against the administration, refuse to do "left" work for employees, etc.). For ways to deal with negativity, see broom, stool, prohibition, SPP, press chamber.
Detachment (n) - 1) Structural subdivision of ITU. In the colony, the prisoners are divided into detachments of 100 to 200 people. There are from 2 to 5 production teams in a detachment. In the VTK, the detachments are divided into sections of 20-30 people. The detachment is usually located compactly in one room, in one local zone.
2) The room where the detachment is located (sleeping rooms, a red corner, rooms for storing things and products, a toilet, an office for the detachment chief, etc.).
Detachment (t), squad leader (o) - an employee of the ITK, under whose command the detachment is located.
Soldering (m) - 1) All state-owned products (bread, sugar, gruel, etc.) laid down by law for prisoners.
2) A portion of bread given to the prisoner.
Dad (t) - informal leader in the caste (omitted). See mom, head rooster.
Parasha (r) - 1) A vessel for feces in a cell where there is no sewerage.
2) Toilet bowl in the chamber. The place at the bucket is considered the most unprestigious. In the cells of youngsters and first-timers, there is sometimes a rule according to which the descended must eat while sitting on the bucket (or near it).
3) Nonsense rumor, gossip.
Guys - the same as people: thieves and those close to them
Godfather (t) - the most authoritative thug in this community (cell, prison, colony).
boy (t) - a person who occupies a high position in the society of prisoners in general regime colonies (sometimes in a minor), thieves.
PVR (c) - 1) political and educational work.
2) Internal regulations - a regulatory document of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which determines the conditions for the detention of prisoners in the ITU (TFR ITU), in the SIZO (TVR SIZO), in the TDF (TVR TDF). It is this document and about 300 instructions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (and not the Penal Code of the RSFSR or the Penal Code of the Russian Federation) that regulate life in places of detention in great detail and establish many norms and restrictions that are not even mentioned in the legislation.
PVA (o) - Presidium of the Supreme Council.
pioneer (r) - a prisoner with no prison experience, arrested for the first time.
Rooster - 1) Rooster is a passive homosexual.
2) One of the synonyms omitted, the word is a terrible insult and is even more taboo than a goat (see the corresponding article). All words derived from the rooster (opened, petya, rooster, cockerel, etc.), as well as related to it (hen house, bird, chicken, comb, etc.), the prisoners try not to use, so as not to "get into an incomprehensible" . This also applies to the omitted ones, who prefer to use the offended euphemism when self-naming.
PKT (o) - a cell-type room, the inner prison of the colony, which contains malicious violators of the detention regime. The PKT cells are usually located in a separate building together with the ShIZO and are fenced off from the rest of the ITK territory. Prisoners placed in the PKT are limited in some rights. According to the Law of the Russian Federation "On amendments and additions to the Correctional Labor Code of the RSFSR, the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR" dated June 12, 1992, the total term of punishment for PKT should not exceed 6 months. As of July 1, 1997, this restriction has been lifted.
The former name of the PKT - BUR (high-security barrack) - still exists among prisoners.
PMS (c) - mass production section.
Support (t) - the second most important informal leader in the cell. It could be bullshit too. In the press chamber - an assistant to the chief press operator.
Podsadnoy - see Mother hen.
snow thief - a false thief, a person who declared himself a thief, but does not adhere to the correct concepts and pursues his narrowly selfish goals.
Band - in the document. The red stripe on the cover of the prisoner's personal file means "prone to escape." When such a person enters the zone, the administration must place him under special supervision.
Striped (r) - a particularly dangerous recidivist (OOR). By the striped clothes that the OOR is required to wear. See also Mansion, ITC.
Striped mode, striped zone - see Mansion.
Polish thieves - some meanings: thieves who have departed from the "right life"; professional thieves who are not and were not members of any groups; twisted thieves, i.e. thieves who are at enmity with thieves in law with the approval of the camp administration or under its leadership. The prison world explains the origin of the phrase "Polish thief" literally: these are the ideological descendants of thieves who came to Russia from Poland back in the days when Poland was part of the Russian Empire. According to J. Rossi (see "Handbook on the Gulag"), "the Polish thief has nothing to do with Poland." With the invasion of "Polish thieves" and their activities, the mythology of the prison world also connects the decline of their morals.
pardon (r) - a petition for pardon or the very decision of the courts for pardon.
settlement, settlement (t) - colony-settlement. See ITC.
Correction (r) - analysis of the conflict between prisoners according to the law, correct concepts. According to ZhR: "The trial of a comrade (in a thieves' environment)". See also disassembly.
Correct zone, prison (r) - ITU or pre-trial detention center, whose shadow life is in accordance with the correct concepts and prison law. The presence or absence of the correct order in a particular penitentiary institution or its part is determined by the personal qualities of the authorities who have real power. In institutions for youngsters or first-timers, the correct order is practically impossible due to the lack of authorities with sufficient life and prison experience, as well as experience in resolving conflicts in a non-violent way. Lawlessness often flourishes here, the priority of formal norms snatched from the prison law over its meaning, the prevalence of wild and meaningless rules. For example, the prohibition to carry a spoon in the upper pocket of a robe, to put a bitten piece of bread in your pocket, the prohibition to wear red clothes, etc. It is characteristic that the prisoners themselves call the general regime (ITU for first-timers) a special regime.
The lack of proper order, lawlessness in the ITU for recidivists is often associated with the activities of operational services, who prefer to support controlled authorities or impose the power of their agents among thieves and thieves, and use the most cruel and immoral ways to deal with the right authorities, who do not succumb to pressure and do not go to cooperate with the cops. It is clear that among the ruled authorities there are more people with very low moral qualities and those who, demagogically using the norms of the prison law, are primarily concerned about their own well-being. See the correct concepts, prison law, authority, thieves, thieves.
Right (t) - 1) Fair, honest, respected, authoritative, etc.
2) The highest degree of evaluation of a person (the right man, a thug, a prisoner), a group of people (the right hut, zone, prison, family, etc.), a social phenomenon (the right order, etc.).
3) A prisoner who adheres to the right concepts.
Correct concepts (r) - a system of informal norms and rules operating in such informal groups of prisoners as peasants and thieves. For prisoners, they are both an ethical imperative and a means of confronting the administration of the ITU. They are supported, shared, recognized by the main part of the prisoners, which can be explained by their proximity to the norms, values ​​and attitudes of traditional culture. They declare, for example, an irreconcilable attitude towards denunciation, proclaim the primacy of the general interest over the private, brotherhood between prisoners (see lads, family), help to those who find themselves in a difficult situation (see obshchak), justice, protect the prisoner from arbitrariness through prohibition to take away anything without a legal (within the framework of prison law) grounds, it is forbidden to charge a person without evidence of his misconduct and generally insult him, they require strict thoughtfulness and restraint in words (see watch the broom, goat, rooster). The spread of correct concepts and prison law, their support by the main part of the prisoners can also be explained by the fact that the official law requires them to act immorally, from the point of view of traditional culture, actions (denunciation, betrayal, hypocrisy, obtaining personal gain by infringing on the rights of the community and most its members, etc.) See also the correct concepts, thieves, men, goats, omitted, prison law.
Correct order (r) - about the situation in the camp, cell, prison, where the majority of prisoners adhere to the correct concepts.
ensign (r) - so in the letters of prisoners can be called not only employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the title of "ensign", but also other representatives of the administration of places of deprivation (or restriction) of liberty, directly exercising supervision.
Present (r) - bring charges of violating the informal norms and rules that exist in the community of prisoners. The reason for the presentation may be an unexpectedly emerging compromising fact relating to the distant past, sometimes even to the free, pre-camp life of a prisoner, as well as a circumstance that is not at all the result of a deliberate independent choice: for example, the very fact of living in Moscow or Leningrad, service in internal troops, etc.
Presentation(r) - the accusation of a prisoner of any compromising actions or actions that do not comply with the prison law.
Press (t, s) - "breaking off" a prisoner, a way to suppress his personality, to make him completely controllable. Sometimes the press is a constant psychological pressure on the prisoner ("snake press"). See also press chamber.
Press chamber, press hut (t, s) - a cell in a temporary detention center, pre-trial detention center, covered, PKT, ShIZO, in which prisoners specially selected by the administration torture, torture, rape those who are imprisoned in order to get something concrete from them, for example, to give the necessary testimony to the investigator, find out where the common money is stored, sign a statement refusing thieves' ideas (see breaking, etc.). Press chambers still exist today.
Presser (t, s) - a prisoner who agreed to perform the function of an executioner, torturer of other prisoners in the press chamber on the instructions of an employee of the correctional institution or an investigator. Usually, there is a note in the personal or operational file of the presser, which serves as an indication to the opera about the possibility of appropriate use of this prisoner. In addition, such a mark prevents the presser from being placed during transfer along with other prisoners. Exposing the presser is fraught with cruel reprisals for him.
press prison (t) - a prison-type institution in which a significant part of the cells are used for the press. See White Swan, breaking, press chamber.
Applied (t) - a candidate for thieves, striving to be accepted into the group of thieves and demonstrating adherence to the correct concepts.
recognition (r) - a cell or section of a pre-trial detention center in which prisoners who are recognized as insane or mentally ill are kept. Prisoners in these cells or departments enjoy a number of benefits compared to ordinary prisoners. They are allowed to write, receive more packages, get hospital meals, take longer walks, and so on.
Recognized (r) - a prisoner who was declared insane after a psychiatric examination. See also fool.
Gadgets, jokes, tacks - various ways of provocations against a person in order to put him in a ridiculous position, make him angry, let it out, give some information about himself and generally somehow prove himself. A prisoner can be provoked both by other prisoners (see registration) and by employees of the administration. These are operatic (Kumovskie) lotions and tacks. See Kumovskaya Mutka, Kumovskaya grass.
sweaty - the same as the six, only a little higher in rank, since the six is ​​the one who serves anyone, and sweats - the thieves.
Length (t) - prison corridor.
industrial area (about), promka (t) - the industrial zone of the colony. The territory of the colony is divided into separate sections - zones: a residential area, an industrial area (production facilities are located here). Between these zones a fence is installed, rows of barbed wire are stretched, between them there is a corridor, sometimes shot through by guard soldiers.
Registration (t) - initiation, that is, the rite of introducing a newcomer into the prison community. Registration is most important in the cells of minors and prisoners of general regime. The neophyte is asked questions, or he is put in situations that require intelligence, strong-willed mobilization, and quick decision-making. All this aims to visually demonstrate the real inner content of the personality of the initiate, the degree of his independence, reliability, etc. The place in the informal hierarchy of prisoners depends on the successful completion of registration. And vice versa - those who have not passed the test often fall into the caste of untouchables, outcasts, occupying the most shameful and disenfranchised position in the prison community. In some pre-trial detention centers, including Matrosskaya Tishina, persons from 16 to 30 years old are subject to registration, while in other places there are no age limits at all.
Proshlyak (t) - a thief who has departed from the thieves' law, but, unlike a bitch, has not betrayed him. Usually enjoys authority in the community of prisoners. May be present at gangways.
vocational school - vocational school.
Navel - he is an ass, a dubak, a guard - a guard
Five Minute (c) - a superficial, short (sometimes less than five minutes) psychiatric examination directly in the prison or in the courtroom. At the five-minute session, a decision is usually made: to send the person under investigation for a more thorough examination (for example, to the Serbsky Institute) or to recognize the prisoner as normal.
Disassembly (r) - 1) Any showdown between prisoners or groups of prisoners.
2) Resolution of conflicts that have arisen between prisoners or groups of prisoners according to the rules provided for by the prison law or the thieves' law (in the case when a conflict arose between thieves or authoritative thieves close to them). Such a disassembly, in contrast to the usual conflict (disassembly 1), is sometimes called a correct one, a rule. The role of mediators or "judges" is usually played by authoritative prisoners, thieves. In serious cases, the person found guilty (the defendant) is at the mercy of the right (recognized in the showdown as right). He can get from the defendant as a "worthy" or as a "scoundrel" (the defendant's qualification is the prerogative of disassembly, which can transfer it to the right). In the first case, the defendant must publicly admit his guilt and repent. The right one can lightly hit the defendant, but it does not hurt, so that he only "feels a brotherly hand." In the second case, you can do anything with the defendant, including killing him. The rightist may, by the verdict of a disassembly, demand money, things from the guilty person - here, it would seem, he has complete freedom of choice. However, according to how fair the sanction chosen by the right, how much it corresponds to the fault, how magnanimous and not vindictive the “winner of the case”, those around him will form an opinion about him, which ultimately affects his status in the community. Showdowns between thieves or authoritative thieves take place according to other rules provided for by the thieves' law. For example, a thief cannot be hit even "brotherly". Such a sanction is unequivocal: the thief is deprived of his title. Unjustly subjected to such a sanction, not recognizing the legality of deprivation of the title of thief, is obliged to kill the striker.
Prison law provides the defendant with the right to appeal. If the disassembly takes place, for example, in a prison cell, the defendant may request that an authority of a higher status (and sometimes the main authority of the prison) intervene in the decision of the disassembly from tails, or send a request to the appropriate cell outlining the essence of the conflict and asking to intervene. According to the correct concepts, such an appeal suspends the execution of the sanction.
3) A group of prisoners participating in the analysis of the conflict and making a decision.
cutting - here: abbreviation.
promotion (t, s) - receiving a second additional term in the camp for a new crime by a court decision.
Regimenik - an employee of the regime part of the ITU, which monitors the implementation of the internal rules of the ITU by prisoners.
RMZ - repair and mechanical plant.
Wet the horns - to serve the sentence in full, without attempting to escape.
ROR (c) - regime-operational work.
steer - manage a zone or a cell, a prison.
pockmarked (t) - the same as the mansion, striped.
Amateur organizations of convicts (o) - official structures, organizations of prisoners created by the administration. The Penitentiary Labor Code of the RSFSR states that these organizations are created with the aim of "developing the skills of collectivism among convicts ... encouraging their useful initiative, as well as using the influence of the collective in the correction and re-education of convicts." Such organizations include various sections (SPP, sanitary, industrial, cultural and educational, etc.), as well as all kinds of "councils" (collective of the colony, detachment). The heads of all these sections and councils are appointed by the administration. See sections, SPP, activist, goat.
dump - get away, leave.
brother-in-law (t) - a candidate for the caste of thieves, who, however, has not yet been recognized at the meeting as a thief in law. Brother-in-laws occupy the second place (after thieves in law) in the hierarchy of thieves.
SVP (o) - section of the internal order - "amateur" organization of convicts", whose members actively cooperate with the administration. The modern name is SPP.
Pass (t) - give out, convey; for example, to inform the prison administration about an impending escape.
Hand over the skin (r) - to transfer to the administration of the ITU a report (denunciation) about the violation of discipline, the regime of detention of other prisoners. This report can serve as the basis for punishing the violator.
Section (t, s) - 1) a living room in a barrack or, in official language, a hostel. The section can accommodate from 20 to 200 people.
2) The generalized name of the so-called. "amateur organizations of convicts" or "self-government bodies of convicts".
A family (t) - a group of 3-5 prisoners (sometimes more), connected by a trusting relationship. Family members provide each other with help and support in everyday life, but also bear responsibility for each other.
gray (t) - a synonym for men.
Sit on wheels - to be on the run, to hide
LED and SR (o) - see GUITU, GUIN.
SIZO (o) - pre-trial detention center. An institution intended for the detention of arrested persons in respect of whom a court verdict has not entered into legal force. SIZOs, as a rule, have separate cells or departments for women, minors arrested for the first time and recidivists, patients sentenced to death, as well as for prisoners transferred to the ITU. The pre-trial detention center also contains convicts who are awaiting transfer or left for household work in the pre-trial detention center. The pre-trial detention center has a department for disciplinary punishment (punishment cell).
follow the broom (r) - do not allow offensive expressions or individual swear words.
Looking (r) - In the event that there is no thief in a prison or colony, the thieves' world can send its representative there, who will ensure that the prisoners comply with the prison law and the thieves' "orders" of the beholder. In this case, the beholder is provided with a "mandate", i.e. a note in which there is an appropriate order and which the beholder presents to authoritative thieves. If the zone is red, controlled by woolen, etc., the beholder must himself choose the right prisoners to help him and take power in the ITU. The watcher can be appointed as a thief, leaving for freedom or for a stage.
St. Petersburg (o) - a special psychiatric hospital. A penitentiary for prisoners declared insane at the time of the commission of a crime and having serious mental disorders, as well as for prisoners who received serious mental illness while serving their sentence. Convicted for serious crimes and recidivists are sent to St. Petersburg by a court decision. Persons who have committed minor crimes for the first time may be sent by court order to ordinary psychiatric hospitals. In 1988, the SPBs were transferred from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health.
Special contingent (c) - this is how the employees of the ITU and the pre-trial detention center call the prisoners.
Special commandant's office - a penitentiary institution for offenders "convicted on probation with mandatory labor" and "released on parole with mandatory labor" (i.e. prisoners of the penitentiary colony of general, enhanced and strict regimes, for whom the punishment regime was reduced by a court decision). In the special commandant's office, a prisoner is obliged to live in a special dormitory and work at an enterprise indicated to him (often with harmful or difficult working conditions). Most often, those sentenced to this type of punishment are sent to regions far from their permanent place of residence.
In 1993, such a type of punishment as sending a conditionally convicted person to a special commandant's office with mandatory involvement in labor was abolished.
See chemistry.
Special, special corridor, special building (m, c) - separation of pre-trial detention centers for persons under investigation, who, at the direction of the investigator or the opera, should be kept in conditions of stricter isolation from other prisoners, in order to prevent contact with accomplices or harmful influence on other prisoners, sometimes - to ensure the safety of this prisoner (see para. e.g. a presser). The cells of this department are designed for a smaller number of places (from one to 10-12) than ordinary cells, where several dozen people can be.
Special (r) - TIC of general regime. It is called so because of the brutal relations between prisoners that reign in the penitentiary of this regime.
special detention center - Institutions for "homeless persons" or suspected criminals who need to be identified.
Special school, special vocational school (o) - see bark beetle.
SPP (n) - crime prevention section, one of the "amateur organizations of prisoners" (the former name - SVP - internal order section), by enrolling in which a prisoner acquires the status of a goat. Sometimes the administration of the ITU forces prisoners to join the SPP forcibly. This is done by the hands of goats who torture those who refused to write an application for joining the SPP. Attempts to get out of the goat caste, as a rule, are unsuccessful. Such traitors can be put in a cell with prisoners who adhere to prison law and allegedly "accidentally" inform them about the camp past of this person. After that, the former goat (activist) can be lowered or killed. These are just some of the latent ways in which the ITU administration struggles with the prison law. See also broom, ban, nightstand.
Ask (r) - to punish the prisoner after disassembly for lawlessness or violation of the prison law.
Get pissed off, pissed off thief - see Bitch.
Stand on the gate - open and close the passage from one local area to another. See Lokalka, local tower.
Strogach (r) - strict regime penitentiary.
Strict regime - see Strogach.
Bitch (t) - 1) According to ZhR: "a thief ... who violated the thieves' law." In the late 1940s and early 1950s, a bloodbath unfolded in the camps, known as the "war of bitches and thieves" (see, for example, ZhR, as well as "Essays on the Underworld" by V. Shalamov, Don, No. 1, 1989 g., p. 99).
2) A broken thief or thug who agreed to openly cooperate with the administration of the ITU. "Stuchischy" who has become a thieves' goat, is distinguished, as a rule, by extreme cruelty, sadism in relation to other prisoners; upon release, many of the "stuffed" commit savage crimes.
Rusk (m) - 1) A prisoner using a false name and surname for the purpose of an earlier release. Rarely seen at present.
2) A prisoner posing as a thieves or even a thief (usually an agent or provocateur of the police department). Hiding his past (for example, the fact of being in the caste of lowered or goats).
Bough zone - a zone where the thieves who have swindled (see bitch, thief, thieves) rule (rule), i.e. who entered into an alliance with the administration, which is strictly prohibited by prison law. As a rule, such thieves, striving to achieve their own goals, especially oppress prisoners and go wild.
Skhodnyak (r) - something like a permanent council of thieves in the ITU, which sorts out conflicts between prisoners, issues related to the life of prisoners, declaring strikes, preparing a riot, changing some of the norms that apply among prisoners of this ITU, appealing to thieves, thieves of others ITU or those in the wild, etc. See also prison law, thieves.
Gathering of thieves (t) - a periodically assembled collegial body of thieves in the law of a particular region or several regions. It makes decisions on the punishment of violators of the thieves' law, resolves disputes that arise, appoints supervisors for individual ITUs, accepts worthy candidates for thieves, etc. The gathering of thieves can also take place in prison institutions. To do this, thieves from different ITUs can different ways to end up in a prison hospital, where it is easier to arrange such a meeting. More important questions, concerning, for example, clarifications in the interpretation of the law, joint actions of various groups are allowed at gatherings gathered in the wild. See also thief, thieves' orders, thieves' law.
Sepeshniks(m) - members of the SPP.
Tankman - the same as a fighter, a bull, a gladiator, an athlete. (See Fighter, gladiator).
wheelbarrow - take note of a person's misdeed, so that then, without punishing him precisely for this, blackmail him with the possibility of detection and punishment.
tikhushnik - a hidden informer, an uninitiated informer or goat, not a very zealous activist.
Torpedo - 1) Bodyguard;
2) - a prisoner who carries out a death sentence pronounced by a gangway against another prisoner. It is not uncommon for a torpedo to be sent on this mission from one camp to another.
Hold, load into the hold, hold - place in a ShIZO or PKT. The expression arose, apparently, because these rooms are quite often located in basements and are dark and cold.
Bedside table (t, s) - 1) Post at the entrance to the barracks, where they usually put a bedside table with various documents and a local telephone associated with the watch and headquarters. According to the official procedure, a specially appointed duty officer should be on duty near the bedside table, who is obliged to report to all employees of the ITU entering the barrack about the number of prisoners in the barrack, etc. In case of any violations of the order, the officer on duty must report this to the leadership of the ITK or DPNK by local telephone. Usually prisoners from among the goats are appointed on duty.
2) One of the ways the ITU administration fights the prison law. According to the correct concepts, duty at the bedside table (see paragraph 1 of this article) is considered unacceptable for peasants and thieves. Agreeing to such duty automatically acquires the status of a goat. The administration sometimes begins to force all prisoners to be on duty at the bedside table in order of priority. For refusing such duty, the prisoner is severely punished by the administration and exposed to the press. This is done with a clear understanding of what threatens such duty for prisoners from among the peasants and thieves. See also ban, HOP, broom.
prison law - a set of informal norms and rules in force in the community of prisoners. In contrast to the thieves' law, on the basis of which it was formed in the 60s (when there were practically no thieves and thieves left in the ITU), the prison law includes all prisoners within its scope; determines its own norms, prohibitions, taboos for each group (suit) of prisoners, regulates relations between representatives of these groups, introduces mechanisms for resolving conflicts between prisoners. All conflicts must be resolved according to prison law with the help of showdowns and appeals to authorities. The authorities are most often people from the thieves' caste (this is another proof that the middle caste - the peasants did not just spontaneously form into some social whole, but they took the thieves caste as a model, who already had their own developed law and order).
In recent years, there is evidence of the gradual replacement of the prison law by new orders based on corruption, the merging of the underworld with the administration of the ITU, the power of money. According to our assessment, such a trend can lead to an increase in organized crime, an increase in the proportion of violent and unrestricted crimes, a real deterioration in the situation of prisoners, destabilization of the work of correctional institutions, and, to some extent, destabilization of the situation in society.
See also the correct concepts, thieves, men, goats, omitted.
Prison - 1) (r) The general name of all places of detention, which is also used in ordinary language.
2) (r) The general name of all prison-type institutions, including the covered and investigative prison (SIZO). The prison often receives an unofficial name according to its location (Butyrki, Lefortovo, Krasnaya Presnya - in Moscow, Lukyanovka - in Kyiv, etc.).
3. (o) A prison-type facility for convicts. See covered.
ATC - Department of Internal Affairs. Regional division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Angular (t) - thieves, who is an informal leader in a section, barracks or appointed to this role by a gangway. As a rule, it occupies an honorable lower place in the corner of the sleeping quarters in the barracks.
parole (o) - conditional early release from punishment. The final decision on parole is made by the visiting session of the district court at the location of the correctional institution. There are two types of parole, the first of which involves simply release with the opportunity to return to the place of residence, the second (parole with mandatory involvement in labor) is associated with transfer to a special commandant's office. In 1993, the second type of punishment was abolished.
UID - Department of Correctional Affairs. See GUIN.
UITU (o) - ITU management. Structural subdivision of the regional (regional, regional) department of internal affairs, in whose administration there are ITUs located on its territory (except for forestry). Currently renamed to UIN (Department for the Execution of Punishments).
Criminal Code of the RSFSR - The Criminal Code of the RSFSR, which was in force on the territory of the RSFSR, and then the Russian Federation from January 1, 1961 to December 31, 1996. Since January 1, 1997, a new criminal code has been in force in Russia - the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
ULITU - Department of Forest ITU, regional subdivision of GULITU.
Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR - Code of Criminal Procedure.
Urka - the old name of thieves, now almost out of use.
amp (r) - TIC enhanced regime.
break plywood (t) - to break a person's chest, one of the ways of torturing youngsters.
To fumble (to fumble) - 1. Be in a ridiculous position. 2. Being convicted of a crime. 3. Be compromised.
Fraer (r) - According to ZhR: "A person who does not belong to the thieves' world." At present, the word fraer in many regions has acquired the exact opposite meaning: a prisoner close to thieves, thieves. For example, to fraer means - to imitate thieves in one's behavior; trump fraer - thieves. It also retains its former meaning in some words, for example, to fraer - to make a mistake, an act that is wrong from the point of view of a prisoner (but not a free one).
The old meaning of the word fraer is now conveyed by the word "loh".
fraerize (t) - see fraer.
Lb (t) - a reduced food ration under a strict prison regime, including a ration of bread weighing 400 g (per day).
bullshit - 1) back;
2) lies.
Sweatshirt - a prisoner behaving unworthily, most often in relation to the payment of card debts, for which he is always in danger of sinking. Sometimes, having lost, he agrees to one more attempt, agreeing to lower himself in case of a loss: this is called "playing for bullshit."
Tail - a prisoner's misdemeanor, for which he evades punishment, trying to move to another barrack, to another zone, where no one knows about his misconduct. Information about his offense usually follows the offender. "Long tail behind the bunk" - several misdemeanors or one major one that is hidden by the offender. Sometimes (when the offense is already known and convicted), the tail is a sentence in absentia, passed in accordance with the prison law.
Hut (t) - camera.
Chemist (t) - a prisoner sent to chemistry.
Chemistry (t) - the informal name of one of the types of criminal punishment. Officially, it is called parole (parole) or conditional conviction with mandatory involvement in labor. This type of punishment is associated with transfer to a special commandant's office, where the prisoner is obliged to live in a special hostel and work at the enterprise indicated to him. In 1992-93 this type of punishment in most countries b. The USSR was canceled due to the collapse of the economy.
Khipezh (kipezh) - unrest, confusion, rebellion, started by prisoners against the administration, or by the administration against prisoners.
Master (t) - the head of a prison or colony.
Hozband - see Household service.
Household service (o, t) - prisoners who perform housekeeping work in places of deprivation of liberty (cooks, "balanders" - food distributors, and others). The same name is given to prisoners who perform these duties in a pre-trial detention center and serve their sentence there in accordance with Article 16 of the Correctional Labor Code of the RSFSR - "Leaving convicts in pre-trial detention center or prison to work on housekeeping". Household service is one of those categories of prisoners to whom the camp community treats with a greater or lesser degree of hostility.
business executive - a prisoner convicted of economic crimes. In the 1980s, there were many such people in places of detention, and they constituted a noticeable stratum, distinguished by their behavior. The business executives showed considerable flexibility: without denying the prison law, they often went beyond its limits by entering economic positions, i.e. becoming goats, and used their knowledge and economic experience for the benefit of the administration, but at the same time they tried to somehow improve their reputation with the prisoners. See also Tsekhovik.
colored (t) - 1) Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, sometimes - everyone who serves in the army wears shoulder straps. The same name is given to former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, prosecutors, judges, high-ranking civil servants, etc., who are held in pre-trial detention centers and ITUs. They are placed in separate cells in remand prisons, there are separate penal colonies for them, which is done to prevent the massacre of colored people by other prisoners. Cases are known when the investigator obtains any testimony from colored people under the threat of being placed in a cell for ordinary prisoners. The threat of a lynching most often turns out to be much worse than any criminal punishment.
2) In some regions, the word colored is used in its former (30-50s) meaning. According to ZhR: "thieves or thief in law, urka."
Tsentryak (t) - thieves and their entourage.
Tsekhovik (r) - 1) An entrepreneur who used the possibilities of the state economy for personal enrichment and, as a rule, to expand "his" production. Synonym - "shadow", i.e. representative of the so-called "shadow economy".
2) Convicted for entrepreneurial activity - usually under Article 93.1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR "Theft of state or public property on an especially large scale." In 1993, despite the legalization of private entrepreneurial and commercial activities, many "guild members" continued to serve their sentences.
Black (t) - see thieves.
Black zone, black suit - black suit - thieves; black zone - a zone controlled by thieves.
Crap (t) - a person occupying one of the lowest levels in the informal hierarchy of prisoners (below - only ingots and omitted ones). The devil is distinguished by his inconsistency moral principles, irresponsible behavior and untidy appearance.
NUM (c) - "part of the commissariat service", a division of the camp administration, which is responsible, among other things, for providing prisoners with clothes, shoes, bedding, etc.
Chushok (r) - a representative of a group with a low status in the informal hierarchy of prisoners (lower in status only omitted). They are forced to do dirty work, they are robbed at the common fund and the youngster, their things are taken away from them. Most often these are people who are unadapted (for various reasons) to life in prison, unable to resist, stand up for themselves, indifferent to everything. Their main distinguishing feature is a neglected appearance. The word chushok is more often used in youngsters.
Wool, woolen (r) - 1) Prisoners who pretend to be authoritative, thieves, but in fact go wild, acting in their own interests or at the direction of the administration.
2) thieves bespredelschiki.
SCHIZO (o) - punishment cell. Branch of the ITU, where the cells for violators of the content regime are located. Placed in a ShIZO, his rights are significantly limited. Until 1988, there was a reduced food ration in ShIZO (torture by hunger). In addition, all clothes were taken away from the prisoners and only a light cotton suit was given out, they were not taken out for a walk, they did not receive bed linen and a mattress, letters, parcels, parcels. SIZOs usually create difficult conditions (cold in winter, stuffy in summer), which contribute to the development of tuberculosis. According to the Law of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of June 12, 1992, many of these restrictions were abolished. The maximum period of detention in a punishment cell has also been introduced: a single placement in a punishment cell - up to 15 days, the total term of punishment for a year - no more than 2 months. However, even after that, placement in a ShIZO is one of the most severe punishments. Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs? 13 dated 01/15/93 in ShIZO, PKT, punishment cell, a reduced dietary norm was again introduced, which contradicts the current legislation, since the establishment of nutritional standards is the prerogative of the government of the Russian Federation.
The SHIZO is usually combined with the PKT, forming something like an internal ITU prison.
In some ITUs (more often in the forest ones) there is a ShIZO with a transfer to work, i.e. during the day the prisoner works at his usual place, and after work he returns to the ShIZO. In this case, at least at work, the punished prisoner can smoke, warm up, and receive help from the family. There is also a worse option, when prisoners in the ShIZO are taken to work in working cells located in the same building.
Shkvarnoy (t) - the same as the omitted one.
Shkonka, shkonar (t) - bed. In prison - a couch, welded from metal pipes and strips, embedded in the floor; often two- or three-tiered. The number of racks is usually used to judge the size and capacity of the chambers.
Skin - prison jacket
Skin (t) - a denunciation reporting on another prisoner (see hand over the skin).
Shmon (t, s) - search.
Shnyr (m) - 1) A prisoner who has taken on (sometimes under pressure from other prisoners) the duty to clean the cell, barracks, industrial premises, to do the work that prisoners are required to do in turn. For this work, he receives from the prisoners themselves a certain payment in food, smoke, money.
2) Prisoners holding the positions of orderlies (on duty, errandants, cleaners) in separate structural units of the ITU (SHIZO, PKT, headquarters, visiting rooms, detachments, etc.). Shnyr is considered a goat by the position itself.
bang - to spy in someone's favor, most often in favor of the administration.
Headquarters (c) - the premises of the correctional colony, in which the offices of the colony employees (head, deputies, operational workers, etc.) are located. Often the medical unit is located in the same room.
Fur coat(t, s) - a special relief coating of the walls of a prison cell. According to the official version, the walls are covered with a fur coat so that the prisoners do not write on the walls; another version: so that they do not commit suicide by smashing their heads against the wall. According to the testimony of the prisoners, the fur coat does not fulfill either purpose. But in the cells with a fur coat, no disinfection will destroy insects (bugs, spiders, wood lice, etc.). A fur coat mentally suppresses a person, makes his life in prison even more unbearable: the walls are prickly, neither to lean against, nor to hold his hand ...
Stage (r) - a room for newly arrived prisoners (etapniks) in the colony, where they are kept in isolation from the rest of the ITU prisoners for several days. This time is used not only for medical checks (mainly for infectious diseases) of newcomers, ascertaining their profession and qualifications, but also for identifying negatively minded convicts, as well as for breaking those who adhere to the correct concepts. See also prohibition, press, SPP.
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In the prison world there are several castes - groups of prisoners of different denominations.

There are four main castes: thieves (tramps, lads), peasants (the most numerous caste), goats, roosters (outcasts).

If everything is more or less clear with thieves and peasants (persons who adhere to thieves' traditions, working convicts who have not joined either thieves or goats), then who the goats are in the zone is not entirely clear.

But in life, often swearing, people call each other goats, but they do not mean what this word means in prison jargon.

Goat, goat, goat's face and other derivatives of the word "goat" are insulting words. But if in ordinary life a person who was called a goat may not react in any way to an offensive word, then in prison this spoken word can even cost the life of the one who uttered it.

If some “correct” prisoner is called a goat, then the demand from the one who called them will be great. In prison, goats are a separate caste of prisoners, belonging to which is not held in high esteem.

Goats or bitches (bastards) are prisoners who cooperate with the administration of the colony. These are those prisoners who have agreed to accept some position, for example, to become a supply manager, a librarian, a club manager, a zone commandant, etc.

That is, these are the people who put on the "jambs" - the armband, these are the ones who joined the section of preventive offenses. Goats can also be called bitches - those who agreed to cooperate with law enforcement agencies.

A goat or a woolen suit - these are screwed up, who used to live according to black laws, and then, forcedly or of their own free will, embarked on the true path - they began to cooperate with the administration.

But they basically become goats for one simple reason - in order to be released as soon as possible, to receive parole.

The administration of the colony calls the goats "an asset", activists, persons who have firmly embarked on the path of correction. Of course, other prisoners treat goats badly.

They become goats in different ways: some of their own free will, someone is intimidated, others are forced. They greet the goats in the zone, communicate with them, but they are not allowed into the “common fund”.

There is such a legend in the prison camps that supposedly there is such a secret order: in the event of a war, all goats must be shot as potential traitors.

But this is only a legend. Although during the Second World War, German punitive detachments were not made up of army soldiers, but of policemen.

Goats (another name is red) are persons who openly cooperate with the administration. The goats also include those convicts who are in various sections of amateur performance, in sections of discipline and order in a correctional institution.

The goats are cooperating with the administration for a banal indulgence. So, for their work they can get a can of condensed milk, sausages, some can even count on parole for especially good work.

Such a common phrase: “You will answer for a goat” in the zone is not without reason: if you call some convict a goat, which he is not, then this will be considered the most difficult jamb.

For such a reservation, the convict will receive a quick “response” - a blow to the face (at best), they can even stab him. If the convict, who was called a goat, does not answer anything to the offender, then he will automatically be ranked as a "goat" suit.

Many people think that the meaning of the word "goat" is the same as the snitch. Such prisoners notify the administration about some case, event.

However, it is not. None of the peasants or thieves will carry on a conversation in the presence of a goat. Yes, and keep "bitches" apart.

Correctional facilities have 2 zones:

1. Red - here the prison administration controls all aspects of the life of prisoners, all convicts obey the rules of the internal labor regulations, any attempts to divide convicts into suits are suppressed here.
2. Black - in such a zone, convicts live "according to the rules." There are castes here, the administration shares power with the prisoners. There are more black zones in our country than red ones in 2020.

As for the "goats", they are very disliked in the black zones. In some prisons, the administration even has to fence the "goats" and put them in separate barracks.

In the red zones, the goats enjoy the administration's indulgence, they can even arrange their own "common fund", and in some prisons, the "bastards" can even regulate the life of other prisoners.

In ordinary life, such a word as a goat, expressed as a curse against another person, has a slightly different, more harmless meaning than the same word will be uttered in the zone.

After all, they call goats those prisoners who cooperate with the administration, occupy some positions, join amateur circles, etc.

If, out of ignorance, in a fit of anger, you call a prisoner a goat who, in essence, is not one (for example, he is a thug or a peasant), then you can very painfully answer for your words.

Prisoners who have become "goats" in the zone remain so until the end of their sentence. They are despised by peasants and thieves, they do not enter into a “common fund” with them, such persons are kept apart from others.

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 “brotherhood”, “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 of the 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 employees of places of detention 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 (naturally, 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 did not stand the test of initiation into men are called female 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 allowed (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, rob youngsters, which is why the position of "bati" is considered to be 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 you can only 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 have 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 90s, since prison customs began to spread rapidly in the wild, the lower ones 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 are seriously collecting 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 either - 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.