This was not the first long date. Everything was familiar and worked out. She knew what to do literally to the minute. The main thing is to have time to do everything. The day before, you need to pack several bags so that you can quickly throw them into the luggage of your car tomorrow. In one sportswear, all the ordered items: sweatpants, two pairs of panties, two pairs of socks, a scarf that might not be missed, a turtleneck, gloves - everything is black. In the other there are bed linen and two blankets. In a large basket there are potatoes, cabbage, carrots, onions, garlic, salt, sugar.
On Thursday after work I started driving. See if everything is in place - passport, money, phone, charger, birth certificate... The birth certificate of the long-awaited beloved son, who looked touchingly innocently from every photograph, whom she carried in her arms, rocked to sleep at night, sang lullabies, read fairy tales, took me to museums and Christmas trees to the Kremlin and Luzhniki... So, everything is in place. She mechanically straightened the gold chain with a pendant - the only material value passed down through the female line from her great-grandmother, a student at the Institute of Noble Maidens. "Oh! Noble girls! If only you knew where I’m going now!” She had long ago stopped torturing herself with useless questions: how did it happen, what did she do wrong, why exactly was her son, why did he become like this, and didn’t go crazy. I have long since stopped being surprised that this happened in their family, where no one had ever been imprisoned except their grandfather, who was repressed in 1937. Whole year with the obligatory ritual of weeping before bed has sunk into oblivion. Shock from the arrest, resentment, reluctance to visit, then catching the elusive investigator in order to obtain permission for short-term visits. Court. And the stage. Disappeared for two months. It is only in the laws that everything is spelled out smoothly: supposedly the pre-trial detention center informs relatives where the prisoner is being sent, then upon arrival they are given a call or informed in writing. Svetlana contacted all authorities. The authorities regularly sent reports with a message about where they forwarded her statements next. Two months later, only she found out where her son was. I immediately rushed off for a short date. It was scary to look at him: skin and bones, his face was all distorted, his eyes were dull. All that little was visible from the clothes, the face and neck were covered in healing yellow bruises. Hands covered in scars and abrasions. Two fingers are either twisted or broken. “Did they beat you?” “No, everything is fine. Mom, it’s okay... now.” Looking at her face, which was beginning to twist, he hissed into the phone: “Don’t cry! Don’t you dare cry here!”
Everything is behind us, it has become ordinary and routine, everyday, so to speak. The bruises have gone away, I've gained a little weight...
Departure is at six o'clock, the Moscow Ring Road is crossed at about seven, and there are only about eight hours of fast driving left to get to a small town somewhere on the edge of the empire.
The main thing is not to fall asleep while driving.... At three o'clock in the morning, already pretty nodding off, she went into the hotel to sleep until 7 am in the cheapest stinking room without undressing. There was no time to think about whether the potatoes in the trunk would freeze.
In the morning, when I woke up, I wasn’t at all cheerful (it’s still good that I managed to fall asleep), I ran and ran, everything was minute by minute! First for breakfast, then behind the wheel and to the colony, so that I have time to write a statement before going to the store. And so it’s already 9 o’clock. They start at 11. That's a total of two hours to shop. Back behind the wheel and to the only supermarket in the city, which opens at 9, the rest only at 10, and this is late. Run, run with the list: 6 blocks of cigarettes, 10 loaves of raw smoked sausage. Boiled-smoked is not allowed. Condensed milk in plastic bottles, chocolate bars - all this is for transfer. “Snout-soap”: shampoo, shower gel, several bars of soap, deodorant, shaving, etc. You can transfer 20 kg, the list of permitted products has long been all in your head, memorized. And another mountain of food for three days. I want to cook something delicious and special. I need to make an Olivier salad, I asked for more meat. Red fish, olives (he loves them), and pamper him with a solid jar of caviar... Five cartons of milk, juices, two large bottles of Coca-Cola. There was a lot of something else in there, which resulted in seven large bags of groceries. God! I wish I could carry all this! I also really want to sleep and my head hurts. I looked at my watch. It's almost 11! Hurry up to the waiting room, otherwise they will take you in without you. Everyone is sitting and waiting, the tension is growing. There aren't that many people, some are old acquaintances. Everyone is tired, everyone has a whole battery of bags in another room with a separate exit. This is the entrance to the long visit rooms. From the dressing room there is an iron door, behind it is a small room, partitioned off in two more places by bars with automatic doors. The device works in such a way that if one door is open, the second one is blocked and does not open. That is, once you find yourself in a cage in the middle of a room, you can’t just get out of it. There is a window in this cage, and there sits a “clerk” who takes the passport and other documents and issues a pass - an ordinary piece of paper, but you cannot lose it, otherwise you will not be released. You get into this purgatory only if accompanied by a lady who constantly smiles an ominous smile that sends chills down your spine.
It must be said that there was also a small hitch - something was wrong with the documents of one of the visitors, and while the guards were running back and forth, accompanied by the aching sufferer, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon. Only thanks to the fact that the lady was with a small child, in the end the Cerberus relented.
The long-awaited command rang out: “Hand over your money and prohibited items.”
Svetlana, that’s our heroine’s name, left her phone in the car and several thousand for gas for the return trip, so she didn’t go to the window to drop off her things. At the last moment, she suddenly decided to take her license and documents for the car with her. Quickly running to get her purse, she took a line next to her bags, counting them: one, two... twelve. She was all sweaty from dragging things around, and she really wanted to sleep. She reassured herself: a maximum of a couple more hours until they “cheat”, then for now stuff all the food into the refrigerators, lay out your bed linen on the official bed so that you can sit or lie quietly, a beautiful oilcloth on the table, put the kettle on, throw it in a frying pan meat and cook borscht. In the meantime, open the sliced caviar and drink tea with your son. Hurry up!
The smiling lady was not in a good mood today. As it turned out later, in the morning someone tried to convey something prohibited in the program. It wasn't a file or a gun baked in bread, but still. Some said it was a phone, others said it was drugs. The orderlies carried the bags to the rooms, the visitors were seated on the sofa under surveillance cameras, and the lady and her assistant began their favorite procedure. If previously they let all visitors through in half an hour, now they acted so scrupulously that it took 20 minutes for each room. Svetlana had almost fallen asleep on the sofa when she was invited into her room. All the bags were on the floor. The lady asked her to undress. When Svetlana was undressing, she suddenly discovered that in the bustle and fatigue she had forgotten to take off her gold chain.
Oh, I forgot to hand over the chain. Take it please.
Yes, we’ll take it, we’ll take it, don’t worry,” the matron smiled even more, feeling the metal wires in her bra. - You can get dressed. Vasya! Come here!
Vasya came in.
Take it off. - Vasya filmed the chain with a small camera.
Well, take your groceries back.
How to get back?! - Svetlana’s eyes almost popped out of their sockets. - It was with such difficulty that I took time off from work, spent my monthly salary on groceries, the road is so long... How do I get back?
The lady continued her work. Svetlana, with hope in her voice, asked if this meant that she would be pardoned after all. “As they decide at the top,” the lady answered, “and I have to check, maybe you tried to bring something else in here.” “Yes, I didn’t try to bring anything in, I just forgot, I forgot, I wear it all the time, I don’t even feel that I’m wearing it.” “Well, it’s not the first time, you should know.” “Not the first, but I was very tired, I drove almost all night, I didn’t get enough sleep, I was hungry, and I have an ulcer and hypertension.” “Why are you driving around so sick?” “What are there, what to do”
Meanwhile, the lady was turning all the bags out onto the bed, checking the handles, seams and gaskets. When she turned her wallet inside out, she was delighted to find a SIM card in one of the hundred branches that no one had ever looked into for several years. "And what's that? - it seemed her joy would have no end. - Vasya, take it off!” Vasya took it all off. “This is an old SIM card, it’s already two years old, I bought it in Italy and forgot about it. It has been blocked for a long time and will never be unblocked in its life, this is easy to check.” “Yes, we’ll call the operator now,” the lady answered surprisingly seriously. “Go home.” Meanwhile, the nimble Vasya had already opened half of the cans, and the lady herself had opened all the bags of juice and milk and sniffed them with such a decisive movement, as if she wanted to taste them.
“How can I take all these cans back? They’re open!” “Yes, as you wish!” It seemed to Svetlana that it was better to remain silent. Because it was useless to talk. Vasya completely lost his temper: he unpacked the meat and started poking it with a knife, then with the same knife he cut all the mayonnaise into plastic container. He was particularly delighted with the jar of red caviar. And she got it from Vasya’s cutting tool. “Did you poke the meat?” “Poked” “Let’s do it one more time” Vasya poked it one more time, and then went over the mayonnaise one more time to be sure. The lady also said something about the fact that pork should not be brought into the long-term visiting room. “It was possible before” “But now it’s impossible, you have to read the advertisements.” For a moment, Svetlana felt her pulse quicken and her temples began to pound. It seemed like a couple more seconds and she would either faint or cling to this lady to shut her sarcastic grins back. But, having overcome the wave of anger, Svetlana simply sat down on the edge of her chair, trying to cope with dark spots In eyes. The lady added a final note with all the medicines that people with ulcers, heart disease and hypertension cannot part with, and at the same time drops for the common cold. "Not allowed"
The guards put the SIM card and chain in a bag, grabbed the pills and dragged her somewhere, forbidding Svetlana to leave the room. The sight was terrifying: the double bed and table were littered with things turned inside out, filled with open cans of peas, olives and cucumbers. It was already more than two o'clock. Usually at this time everyone was already bustling around in the kitchen, sizzling frying pans, like in some kind of family-group culinary reality show. They were probably fussing... Svetlana still sat on the chair, not knowing what to do, whether to collect things, or, on the contrary, to take things apart. From the corridor came the joyful excitement and someone's exclamation: “They are bringing the boys!”
“Will they really not let me in, will I really have to go back?” And when will I be able to go on a date again now, and will they even let me in?
At about three o'clock Svetlana decided to get out of the room, because she felt an urgent need for this. Poking her head out the door, she saw the orderly and shouted to him: “Can I go somewhere?” He allowed it. Vasya immediately appeared with a message: get dressed, now we’ll quickly go to court, and then, perhaps, the boss will allow a meeting. Last time, in a similar case, it was allowed, although before that it was not allowed, the parents had to leave.
But before going to court, Svetlana was taken to the office of a handsome young lieutenant who performed bureaucratic functions. With a shy look, he politely read out the article incriminating Svetlana, not forgetting to add: “Nothing personal, no offense. We are doing our job. According to Article 19.12 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, transfer or attempt to transfer by any means to persons held in institutions of the penal system or temporary detention centers and other places of detention, objects, substances or food products, the acquisition, storage or use of which is prohibited by law, shall entail the imposition of an administrative fine in the amount of three thousand to five thousand rubles with confiscation of prohibited items, substances or food products"
Svetlana felt as if she had received an electric shock: “Confiscation? What? Chains? But this is absolutely impossible! This is our family heirloom, it’s from my great-grandmother... I didn’t want to bring it in, I accidentally forgot to take it off. I’m so tired, I didn’t sleep all night, I was running around the shops in the morning, carrying heavy bags...” - she again sang the same song. Everything that was happening seemed like some kind of terrible dream. Everything was supposed to go wrong. But when was the last time it was the way she wanted? No, it can’t be, this is some kind of wild joke that will certainly end now, the lieutenant will apologize, take the chain for storage, and then return it upon leaving the date. He will say goodbye: “Next time, be more careful.” But instead, the lieutenant confirmed the worst assumptions that the chain would be confiscated. He asked formal questions, filled out a bunch of papers, then read something long and tediously and gave it to him to sign. To top it off, that same lady showed up, now in the role of a “witness” in company with Vasya the witness. They also signed. The lady continued to joke and smile. Svetlana suddenly remembered that in the room for a long meeting there were products lying open and pierced with knives: meat, chicken, caviar and red fish - everything had been warm since 12 o’clock, in the room since 14 o’clock, and it was already about five. Svetlana asked if her products had spoiled and whether they would soon go to court. “A little more,” replied the bureaucrat, tapping one finger on the keyboard. Before going to court, the lieutenant began looking for the head of the colony to find out if the meeting would take place. There were five minutes left before the end of the working day. He couldn’t get through, but someone reported that the boss was walking around the territory. The connection does not work because they are jamming there. After some time, the boss showed up in his office and graciously allowed me not to deprive him of the meeting. The lieutenant and Vasya took the swaying Svetlana out onto the street and put her in “an old, but foreign car,” as the driver proudly called her. Apparently out of compassion for the pathetic appearance of the offender, when the lady left, they returned some of the medicine to her. We arrived at the court at six. Only a few windows in the building were illuminated. Some fat women painted the walls in the lobby. “But the court has closed, it’s open until five. Did you call ahead?” “No,” the polite lieutenant answered simply. Svetlana almost lost consciousness. “Someone go upstairs alone, maybe the judge is still delayed.” The lieutenant ran briskly up the stairs and disappeared for an hour. Then he went down for the offender and the witness, who was mentally preparing a speech to pity the judge. The judge with a long nose, stern and gray-haired, immediately interrupted the offender and deprived her of her word. Then he read out some articles of the law for a long time and tediously, from which Svetlana understood only one thing: that she would never see the chain again. She tried to insist that her violation was unintentional and, if she really wanted to carry the chain, she would not have done it with her own neck, and would have hidden it so that no lady would ever discover it. And in general, why would she give this chain, a valuable family heirloom, to her son in prison? The situation is also similar with SIM cards. Well, it’s not working, this SIM card will never work in its life...
For a moment, Svetlana thought about asking for a lawyer, but she immediately dismissed it, imagining how long this whole comedy would drag on, and that then she would definitely not see her son, and in addition to the loss of the chain, at least 50 thousand would be added to the loss, plus spoiled food . But the main thing is that she was afraid for her son, lest they take it out on him.
The judge read out the verdict, announcing that she was found guilty of bringing prohibited items into the territory of a correctional colony, for which she was fined 3 thousand rubles, and her Italian SIM card and chain were confiscated...
Svetlana stood on the street for another hour, waiting, while the lieutenant discussed something with the judge, probably how to cut a chain.
Somewhere around nine she entered the room and began putting away the groceries. Apart from the chicken and fish, everything else seemed to be normal. Svetlana was incredibly glad that, despite her nerves, hypertension and circumstances, she did not break down, did not shed tears in front of the servants of the law, she was especially glad that she did not grab the smiling lady’s hair and did not shake out her stupid smile. The chain was... not even a pity... I can’t find the words... It seemed that these long-held tears were about to flow.
Steps outside the door, and here in the room is the son, who has grown a little since the last date and has broadened shoulders, in a black padded jacket and a hat with a bag in his hands.
Finally!
* Who should notify relatives of the place where the convicted person is serving his sentence?
First, the administration of the pre-trial detention center will inform you to which correctional facility they will send your convicted relative serve the sentence. This will happen immediately after the pre-trial detention center receives a notification that the court verdict against the convicted person has entered into legal force.
Then, within 10 days from the moment your relative arrives at the correctional facility, where he will serve his sentence, the administration of the correctional facility will provide you with all the necessary information, including the address of this institution.
Your relative himself can call you on the phone and inform you about the place where he is serving his sentence. The administration of the correctional facility gives the convicted person the right to call his relatives at his request.
(Article 17, 75, part 2, article 92 of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation; clause 9 of the Penitentiary Rules).
**What kind of meetings are there with a convicted person and when can you come for a meeting?
A person sentenced to imprisonment is granted two types of visits:
Short-term, lasting 4 hours;
Long-term – up to 3 days on the territory of the PS with accommodation in a specially equipped room, as well as up to 5 days with accommodation outside the PS. In this case, the head of the correctional facility determines the procedure and location of the meeting (for example, a city hotel at the expense of the convicted person or his relatives).
Short-term visits are granted with relatives or other persons in the presence of a representative of the administration of the correctional institution. Long-term visits are granted with the right to live together with a spouse, parents, children, adoptive parents, adopted children, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, and with the permission of the head of the correctional institution - with other persons.
No more than two adults, together with minor brothers, sisters, children, and grandchildren of the convicted person, can come to the convicted person for long-term or short-term visits at the same time.
Persons arriving on a meeting with a convicted person must have identification documents, as well as documents confirming their family ties with the convicted person: passport, military ID, identity card, birth certificate, marriage certificate, documents from the guardianship and trusteeship authorities. Persons arriving on a date, their clothes and belongings are searched. If a person arriving for a meeting refuses this procedure, he is not allowed a long meeting with the convicted person. IN in this case Instead of a long visit, he may be granted a short-term visit.
Persons arriving for a short-term visit with a convicted person are not allowed to bring any products or things into the visiting room. For long dates, you are allowed to bring food (with the exception of wine, vodka and beer).
The number of short-term and long-term visits a convicted person is entitled to per year depends on the type of correctional facility and the conditions in which he is located.
If a convicted person is serving a sentence in a general regime penal colony and is in normal conditions, then he is allowed to have 6 short-term and 4 long-term visits during the year; in easier conditions – 6 short-term and 6 long-term visits; under strict conditions – 2 short-term and 2 long-term visits.
If a convicted person is serving a sentence in a strict regime penal colony and is in normal conditions, then he is allowed to have 3 short-term and 3 long-term visits during the year; in easier conditions – 4 short-term and 4 long-term visits; under strict conditions – 2 short-term and 1 long-term visits.
If a convicted person is serving a sentence in a special regime penal colony and is in normal conditions, then he is allowed to have 2 short-term and 2 long-term visits during the year; in easier conditions – 3 short-term and 3 long-term visits; under strict conditions - only 2 short-term visits.
If a convicted person is serving his sentence in a penal colony, he can have visits without limiting their number.
If the convicted person is serving his sentence in prison for general mode, then he is allowed to have 2 short-term and 2 long-term visits during the year.
In prison on strict regime the convicted person is allowed only 2 short-term visits during the year.
Convicts serving their sentences in the VK are allowed to have during the year: under normal conditions - 8 short-term and 4 long-term visits; in easier conditions - 12 short-term and 4 long-term visits; on preferential terms - unlimited quantity short-term dates and 6 long dates; under strict conditions - only 6 short-term visits.
The first meeting can be granted to the convicted person immediately after his transfer from the quarantine department of the correctional institution (here the convicted person is kept from the first day of arrival at the correctional institution and up to 15 days) to the detachment. Subsequent visits are granted after a period of time equal to the number obtained by dividing 12 months by the number of visits (short-term and long-term) a convicted person is entitled to per year.
Convicted persons, upon their written application, are allowed to replace a long visit with a short-term one, short-term or long-term visits with a telephone conversation.
(Articles 89, 121, 123, 125, 131 of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation; Section XIV of the Rules of Correctional Institutions).
***On long dates, you are allowed to bring food (with the exception of wine, vodka and beer). Convicts are subject to a full search before and after the meeting. The clothes and belongings of citizens arriving on a date may be inspected. A person who refuses inspection is not allowed a long visit, but it can be replaced by a short one. If prohibited items hidden from inspection are discovered, the perpetrators may be brought to administrative liability under Art. 19.12 Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.
****Article 19.12 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation - Transfer or attempt to transfer prohibited items to persons held in institutions of the penal system or temporary detention centers
Transfer or attempt to transfer by any means to persons held in institutions of the penal system or temporary detention centers and other places of detention, objects, substances or food products, the acquisition, storage or use of which is prohibited by law -
Shall entail the imposition of an administrative fine in the amount of three thousand to five thousand rubles with confiscation of prohibited items, substances or food products.
*****Food products, things and objects that convicts are prohibited from having on them, receiving in parcels, parcels, or purchasing.
This:
all types of weapons, ammunition, explosive, poisonous, flammable and radioactive substances, lighters;
money, valuables, securities, currency of foreign countries;
optical instruments;
wrist and pocket watches (in prisons);
food products that require heat treatment (except for tea and coffee, milk powder, instant food concentrates that do not require boiling or cooking);
home canning products, yeast;
all types of alcoholic drinks, beer;
perfume, cologne and other products alcohol based;
narcotic drugs, psychotropic toxic and potent substances, and without medical indications and medicinal substances, medical supplies;
electronic computers, typewriters, duplicating machines and other office equipment;
knives, straight razors, blades for safety razors, piercing and cutting objects, structurally similar to edged weapons;
axes, hammers and other tools;
playing cards;
cameras, photographic materials, chemicals, film cameras, video and audio equipment (except for television receivers, radio receivers), communications equipment and components for them that ensure operation;
any documents (except for standard documents identifying the convicted person, copies of court sentences and rulings, responses based on the results of consideration of proposals, applications, petitions and complaints, receipts for money, things, and valuables deposited for storage);
compasses, literature on topography, martial arts, service dog breeding, weapons design;
military and other uniforms, accessories;
clothing, hats and shoes (except for slippers, tracksuits and sports shoes) unidentified samples;
colored pencils, felt-tip pens, markers, ink, ink, ballpoint and gel pens (except for blue and black), paints, copy paper;
pornographic materials, objects;
electrical household appliances (except for electric shavers, factory-made household electric boilers).
Every convicted person, no matter how serious the crime he has committed, has the right to communicate with his family and friends. But after the verdict comes into force, the amount of this communication undergoes serious changes.
Short and long visits with family are becoming a rare privilege. To increase their number, it is necessary to demonstrate exemplary behavior. Any violations of prison regulations lead to a reduction in the time of communication with relatives.
As experienced wives of convicts say, in order to get a date in prison, you need to go through a large number of tests, both bureaucratic and moral and ethical.
We will tell you further how to get permission to visit a loved one who is in prison, and what surprises you should expect from this event.
The number of permitted visits depends directly on the regime in which your relative is serving his sentence.
The regime, in turn, depends on the severity of the crime he committed and his behavior in the colony. The regime and conditions of detention are dynamic; they can change depending on many factors.
All dates, regardless of mode, are of two types:
- Short-term – date for 4 hours;
- Long-term – a date for 3 days.
Both convicts and relatives favor long term dates.
At this time, they have the opportunity to enjoy solitude with their loved one, because colony staff are present during short-term visits.
General dating
General mode is a normal mode that does not have strict restrictions. In addition, in the general regime it is possible to use lighter conditions of detention for a convicted person who is distinguished by good behavior.
Under the general regime, 4 short-term and long-term visits are allowed.
Under lighter conditions, the convicted person receives 2 additional short-term and long-term visits.
If the convicted person violates the regime or behaves badly, then the number of visits provided for by law for him may be reduced.
In a strict regime, in the same way, there are both normal conditions of detention and lighter ones.
The number of permitted visits for each type of detention conditions is as follows:
- Under normal conditions - 3 long and short visits;
- In easier conditions - 4 long and easy dates.
Long visits in a maximum security colony have stricter rules. If you are going to meet a convicted person for the first time, then be prepared for the fact that you may be forced to undress for a very thorough examination.
Special dates
In special conditions of detention everything is even more difficult. Those prisoners who are under normal conditions have the right to 2 long-term and 2 short-term visits per year. On easier terms - 3 dates of each type.
Convicts who are kept under a lifelong special regime have the right to see their relatives for a short visit only 2 times a year.
Long meetings are prohibited for them. These are especially dangerous criminals and are under heavy security.
The settlement colony is the most gentle place for convicts. There are no restrictions on meeting with family. If you wish, you can even apply for a visit outside the colony.
To stay in a pre-trial detention center, where visits are also not limited, you need to express your desire to do so. If there is room, you will be left to work in the economic sector of the pre-trial detention center under very good living conditions. Often such places are sold for small amounts.
Only close relatives have the right to long-term visits.
So who is allowed in? These include the following persons:
- Legal spouses;
- Parents;
- Children;
- Brothers and sisters;
- Adoptive parents and adopted children;
- Grandmothers and grandfathers;
- Grandchildren.
Theoretically, illegitimate wives cannot have long-term dating rights. But is everything so clear in this matter? How can a common-law wife get a date with a convicted person?
To obtain long-awaited date, you will need to pity the head of the colony. The head of the correctional institution has the right to independently authorize or prohibit visits with non-close relatives.
Therefore, in order to go on a date, you must first submit a written request to the head of the colony.
It’s good if your husband has impeccable behavior, and the head of the colony is lenient towards other people’s requests.
To be more convincing, you can provide a certificate of cohabitation, which can be requested from the housing and communal services department.
What to cook for a date? Regardless of whether you are a close or distant relative, all visitors will need to undergo a short medical examination before the date.
Each correctional institution may have its own list of certificates that may be required for this.
But, in general, the following medical documents are required:
The hospital and the colony itself will tell you how to obtain these certificates.
Obviously, this is done to ensure that none of the visitors can bring into the zone such serious diseases as tuberculosis, hepatitis, and sexually transmitted diseases.
In addition to medical documentation, it is required to submit documents that would confirm the fact of relationship with the convicted person and its degree. Wives carry marriage certificates, parents and children – birth certificates.
No one will be allowed on a date without an identification document.
A long date in the zone is a whole mini vacation, consisting of three days. Therefore, it is worth approaching it responsibly.
You have the right to take whatever you want on a date, as long as these things are not on the list of items prohibited from being brought into the zone. The rules for the date are very strict.
Do not take anything prohibited, as this may become grounds for refusing a date. Such things include money, phones, chargers, SIM cards, alcoholic beverages, documents, etc. Check all pockets in advance to ensure there are no prohibited items lying around in them.
The convicted person or his guests pay money for staying in the long-term visiting room.
The pleasure is not free, but also inexpensive. The rules for providing all benefits in this case are as follows.
You will be provided with what is called a rider, which will list items such as TV, microwave and other items along with their prices.
You will have to mark what you need from this list and pay for everything.
In general, each position costs about 50 rubles, so for two you will cost 500 rubles.
Sex on a date in prison
It's no secret that long-term dates are created, for the most part, specifically to satisfy sexual needs.
No matter how delicate this topic may be, once on a date, couples forget about any embarrassment or poor conditions and immediately begin to fulfill their marital duty.
The visiting rooms are located in a row in the same hallway, so you can easily hear your neighbors having fun.
The following circumstances often create a problem:
- In some colonies it is forbidden to close the door;
- In many colonies, several visiting rooms share a toilet and shower;
- Colonial officers often monitor the love of convicts in their cells.
Although for those who are very bored, none of the above factors stops them from wanting intimacy.
How is a short visit in prison?
As a rule, all dates begin with the transfer of food. But this is not even a meeting stage, but a separate procedure - transfer. It’s just that most often relatives combine a date with food transportation.
The food norm is set for 2019 at 20 kg. Everything that was brought is carefully inspected.
The order of the meeting is as follows. A short-term visit in prison is simply like a four-hour conversation through glass. For communication there is a telephone through which you can talk. But in principle you can hear it without it.
The telephone is rather intended for those cases when several dates are taking place in the room at the same time, and a strong noise of voices is created.
The convict and his guest are sitting on chairs and talking. At the same time, there is always a colony employee present who listens to what you say.
A long meeting takes place in separate rooms of the colony or in a hotel, which is located for these purposes on its territory. It costs money, we have previously talked about the approximate cost of a three-day date.
On a long date you can cook in the kitchen. Kitchens are laid out differently in different prisons. In some places, each meeting room has a separate kitchen, in others there is one kitchen for several rooms. So sometimes you have to wait in line.
There is an opportunity to go outside, watch TV and DVDs with films. For three days there is no regime for convicts; they do not have to get up early and go to formation. It's a little vacation for them.
Visiting rooms are generally dirty. Therefore, it is better to take something with you to clean tables or dishes, take clean bed linen.
There are always standing in the room unpleasant odors, because rooms such as a toilet, smoking room and kitchen can be located close to each other.
Every meeting for a convicted person is a holiday, and its end is a terrible tragedy. Parting with loved ones is always accompanied by tears.
Visits in prison have strict restrictions. The convicts were recognized by the court as dangerous to society and requiring isolation.
Control over their lives does not stop even when they go on short-term or long-term visits with relatives.
The right of convicts to visits, the number of visits allowed to convicts serving a sentence various types regimes, defined by the Criminal Executive Code Russian Federation, in particular, articles: 89, 118, 121, 123, 125, 129, 131.
General rules conducting visits in correctional institutions are set out in paragraphs. 67-83 of the Internal Regulations for correctional institutions, approved by Order of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation No. 205 of November 3, 2005 and are as follows.
In accordance with the procedure established by Article 89 of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation, convicts are granted short-term visits with relatives or other persons in the presence of a representative of the administration of the correctional institution.
Long-term visits are granted with the right to live together with a spouse, parents, children, adoptive parents, adopted children, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, and with the permission of the head of the correctional institution - with other persons.
Permission to visit is given by the head of the correctional institution or a person replacing him, upon the application of the convicted person or the person who came to him for a meeting. If a visit is refused, a note about the reasons for the refusal is made on the application of the person wishing to meet with the convicted person.
Documents proving the identity of those arriving on a date, as well as their family ties with the convicts, are: passport, military ID, identity card, birth certificate, marriage certificate, documents of the guardianship and trusteeship authorities. Convicts, as a rule, are released from work for a period of long visits followed by subsequent or previous service.
The first meeting may be granted to the convicted person immediately after the convict arrives from the quarantine department to the detachment, regardless of whether he had a previous meeting in places of detention. If there is a right to short-term and long-term visits, the type of the first is determined by the convicted person. Subsequent visits are granted after a period equal to the quotient of twelve months divided by the number of visits of this type allowed to the convicted person per year.
The time during which visits to convicts were not provided due to the introduction of a regime of special conditions is counted towards the period after which convicts may be granted visits. The duration of visits may be reduced by the administration at the insistence of the persons on the date. Combining dates or splitting one date into several is not allowed. Convicts must appear neat for visits. During long visits, they can use clothes, linen and shoes brought by relatives.
Convicts are subject to a full search before and after visits. The convicted person is allowed long-term or short-term visits simultaneously with no more than two adults, together with whom may be minor brothers, sisters, children, and grandchildren of the convicted person.
Long visits with other persons are granted only in cases where, in the opinion of the administration, such visits will not negatively affect the convicted person. Persons who arrive on a meeting with convicts, after the administration of the correctional institution has explained to them the procedure for conducting a meeting, hand over the prohibited items for storage until the end of the meeting to the junior inspector for meetings against a signature. Citizens arriving on dates, their clothes and belongings are searched.
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If prohibited items hidden from inspection are discovered, the administration of the correctional institution takes measures in accordance with the requirements of the current legislation of the Russian Federation and these Rules. If a person arriving for a meeting refuses to have his belongings and clothes searched, he is not allowed a long-term meeting with the convicted person, but a short-term one may be granted.
In case of violation by arrivals established order the meeting is immediately interrupted. Persons arriving on a meeting with convicts are not allowed to bring any products or things into the short-term visiting rooms. For long dates, you are allowed to bring food (with the exception of wine, vodka and beer).
For longer visits, additional services may be provided. Their payment is made at the expense of the convicts’ own funds or those arriving on a visit. Replacing types of dates and appointments with telephone conversations carried out upon the written application of the convicted person. To receive legal assistance, convicted persons, upon their applications, are granted visits with lawyers or other persons entitled to provide legal assistance.
At the request of the convicted person, visits are granted in private, out of earshot of third parties and without the use of technical means of listening. Such visits are not counted among the number of visits established by law; their number is not limited; they last up to 4 hours during non-working hours for convicts and only during the hours between waking up and lights out.
The procedure for conducting visits in a correctional institution is regulated by clause 5.3 of the Instruction “On the supervision of convicts held in correctional colonies". Supervision of convicts during long-term and short-term visits is carried out by a junior inspector, who is responsible for the implementation of the provisions established by the penal legislation and
Internal regulations for the procedure for conducting visits, issuing parcels, transfers, parcels to convicts and their accounting. The junior inspector for conducting visits, receiving and issuing parcels, transfers and parcels is obliged to: before the start of the visit, accept applications from arriving persons, clarify the status of visits based on the registration data, obtain permission from the head of the colony and report this to the operational duty officer; ensure the arrival of convicts for a meeting; order passes for relatives of convicted persons and other persons arriving on visits; familiarize those arriving for visits with the procedure for conducting them, and also draw the attention of citizens who delivered parcels to convicts to the inadmissibility of putting prohibited items in them.
If a person arriving for a meeting refuses to have his belongings and clothes searched, he is not allowed a long meeting with the convicted person, however, a short-term one may be granted in accordance with the established procedure; accept money and valuables from relatives of convicts who have arrived on visits, register them against signature in a special journal, ensure their safety and return at the end of the visit; check appearance convicts who are granted a visit, if necessary, ensure that they change into underwear, clothes and shoes from the exchange fund; strictly observe the established sequence (queue) of entry (exit) of persons arriving on a date. He first of all introduces convicts into the short-term meeting room, and then accompanies there those who have arrived for the meeting.
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Relatives are invited first to long-term visiting rooms, and then convicts. At the end of a short-term visit, relatives or other persons are the first to leave the room, and convicts are the first to leave the room for a long-term visit; report to the operational duty officer or the inspector on duty in the residential area and allow, with their consent, the relatives of convicts to leave the colony during a long visit, and after their return, carry out an inspection of the things and food they have with them in the prescribed manner; constantly monitor the behavior of convicts, their relatives and other persons during short- and long-term visits.
When conducting short-term visits, it is prohibited to leave convicted persons alone with persons who have arrived for the meeting. If the rules of conduct are violated, the date is interrupted. In this case, a long-term visit is terminated by the operational duty officer, and a short-term visit is terminated by the junior inspector. The final decision to terminate visits is made by the head of the IC.
The reason for the termination of the meeting is recorded on the application, in the registration card, and the persons on the meeting are notified about this. If a conversation at a short-term meeting is conducted in a language that none of the administration representatives speaks, then a translator or another person (except for convicted persons) who speaks this language may be invited to control the content of the conversation; in addition, periodically (usually before lights out and after getting up) check the presence of convicts in the long-term visiting rooms and their compliance with the rules of conduct; ensure proper internal order in the visiting room, serviceability of equipment and inventory, compliance with fire safety rules
Additional Information:
Convicts have the right to visits. Visits with relatives are provided in order to preserve the socially useful connections of the convicted person. According to the 1999 special census of convicts, 61.8% of convicts did not exercise their right to long-term visits, and 50.3% did not exercise their right to short-term ones.
The number of visits is established depending on the type of correctional institution, the type of regime and the type of conditions for serving the sentence. Dates can be short-term (4 hours) or long-term (3 days). The visits take place on the territory of the correctional facility. A correctional colony may provide visits lasting five days with accommodation outside the colony. In this case, the head of the colony determines the place and procedure for the meeting.
2. Short-term visits are granted with relatives and other persons in the presence of administration representatives. Long visits are granted with the right to live together with close relatives (but not more than two adults), and in exceptional cases, with the permission of the head of the correctional institution, with other persons. The concept of relative and close relative is given in paragraphs 4 and 37 of Art. 5 Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation.
Convicts, as a rule, are released from work for a period of long visits followed by subsequent or previous service. During long visits, convicts can use clothes, linen and shoes brought by relatives. If the arrivals violate the established procedure for conducting a meeting, it is immediately interrupted.
Persons arriving on a meeting with convicts are not allowed to bring any products or things into the short-term visiting rooms. For long dates, you are allowed to bring food (with the exception of wine, vodka and beer). Convicts are subject to a full search before and after the meeting. The clothes and belongings of citizens arriving on a date may be inspected.
A person who refuses inspection is not allowed a long visit, but it can be replaced by a short one. If prohibited items hidden from inspection are discovered, the perpetrators may be brought to administrative liability under Art. 19.12 Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.
Permission to visit is given by the head of the correctional institution or a person replacing him, upon the application of the convicted person or the person who came to him for a meeting. Documents proving the identity of those arriving on a date, as well as their family ties with the convicts, are: passport, military ID, identity card, birth certificate, MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE, documents of the guardianship and trusteeship authorities.
The duration of visits may be reduced by the administration at the insistence of the persons on the date. Combining dates or splitting one date into several is not allowed.
The first meeting may be granted to the convicted person immediately after the convict’s arrival from the quarantine facility to the detachment, regardless of whether he had a previous meeting in places of detention. If there is a right to short-term and long-term visits, the type of the first is determined by the convicted person.
Subsequent visits are granted after a period equal to the quotient of 12 months divided by the number of visits of this type allowed to the convicted person per year. The time during which visits to convicts were not provided due to the introduction of a regime of special conditions is counted towards the period after which convicts may be granted visits.
3. At the request of the convicted person, long-term and short-term visits can be replaced by a telephone conversation, and long-term visits - short-term ones; in a correctional colony there is also a long-term visit with accommodation outside the correctional institution - short-term with going outside the colony. Long-term visits are not granted to those in medical institutions; they are replaced by short-term ones.
Long visits under strict regime in prison, in strict conditions in a special regime colony and in a correctional colony, as well as when serving urgent penalties provided for in paragraphs “c”, “d”, “d” and “f” are not provided for. . 1 tbsp. 115 of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation.
The ban on long visits under strict security in prison was challenged in court as violating the right of a convicted person to privacy (Part 1 of Article 23 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation), to respect for personal and family life(Part 1 of Article 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms). As the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation indicated in its Determination No. 63-O of February 16, 2006, private life is not subject to control by the state, and this corresponds to both the interests of the individual and the interests of society.
But if a person has committed a crime, the state is obliged to protect the violated rights and legitimate interests of other persons, including by applying punishment, including by interfering in the private life of the guilty person. The court, citing the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, stated that such interference in private life is not arbitrary, but only implements a state function to protect public interests. The main thing is that such government intervention meets the criteria of reasonableness and proportionality and is carried out in a constitutionally significant manner.
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The general rules for granting convicts the right to visits are prescribed in Art. 89 of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation, which says:
"1. Those sentenced to imprisonment are granted short-term visits lasting four hours and long-term visits lasting three days on the territory of the correctional institution. In the cases provided for by this Code, convicts may be granted long-term visits with accommodation outside the correctional institution lasting five days. In this case, the head of the correctional institution determines procedure and place of the meeting.
2. Short-term visits are granted with relatives or other persons in the presence of a representative of the administration of the correctional institution. Long-term visits are granted with the right to live together with a spouse, parents, children, adoptive parents, adopted children, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, and with the permission of the head of the correctional institution - with other persons.
3. Convicts, at their request, are allowed to replace a long visit with a short-term, short-term or long-term visit with a telephone conversation, and in educational colonies, a long-term visit with accommodation outside the correctional institution with a short-term visit with going outside the educational colony.
4. To receive legal assistance, convicted persons are granted visits with lawyers or other persons entitled to provide legal assistance, without limiting their number, up to four hours. At the request of the convicted person, meetings with a lawyer are granted in private, out of earshot of third parties and without the use of technical means of listening."
More details about the submission procedure convicts dating is described in Section 14 of the Internal Regulations of the PS:
Convicts, as a rule, are released from work for a period of long visits followed by subsequent or previous service (clause 69 of the Rules);
The first meeting may be granted to the convicted person immediately after the convict arrives from the quarantine department to the detachment, regardless of whether he had a previous meeting in places of detention. If there is a right to short-term and long-term visits, the type of the first is determined by the convicted person. Subsequent visits are granted after a period equal to the quotient of twelve months divided by the number of visits of a given type entitled to a convicted person per year (clause 70 of the Rules);
The duration of visits may be reduced by the administration at the insistence of the persons on the date. Combining dates or splitting one date into several is not allowed (clause 72 of the Rules);
The convicted person is allowed long-term or short-term visits simultaneously with no more than two adults, with whom may be minor brothers, sisters, children, and grandchildren of the convicted person (clause 74 of the Rules);
Persons arriving on a meeting with convicts are not allowed to bring any products or things into the short-term visiting rooms. For long visits, it is allowed to bring food (with the exception of wine, vodka and beer) (clause 80 of the Rules);
To receive legal assistance, convicts are provided with meetings with lawyers or other persons entitled to provide legal assistance. At the request of the convicted person, visits are granted in private, out of earshot of third parties and without the use of technical means of listening. Such dates are not counted among the number of dates established by law, their number is not limited, they last up to 4 hours and only during the hours from getting up to lights out (clause 83 of the Rules).
Excerpts from the Criminal Executive Code of the Russian Federation:
Article 75. Sending those sentenced to imprisonment to serve their sentences
1. Those sentenced to imprisonment are sent to serve their sentence no later than 10 days from the date the administration of the pre-trial detention center receives notification that the court verdict has entered into legal force. During this period, the convicted person has the right to short-term visits with relatives or other persons.
Article 89. Visits of persons sentenced to imprisonment
1. Persons sentenced to imprisonment are granted short-term visits lasting four hours and long-term visits lasting three days on the territory of the correctional institution. In the cases provided for by this Code, convicts may be granted long visits with accommodation outside the correctional institution for a period of five days. In this case, the head of the correctional institution determines the procedure and place of the meeting.
2. Short-term visits are granted with relatives or other persons in the presence of a representative of the administration of the correctional institution. Long-term visits are granted with the right to live together with a spouse, parents, children, adoptive parents, adopted children, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, and with the permission of the head of the correctional institution - with other persons.
3. Convicts, at their request, are allowed to replace a long visit with a short-term, short-term or long-term visit with a telephone conversation, and in educational colonies, a long-term visit with accommodation outside the correctional institution with a short-term visit with going outside the educational colony. The procedure for replacing one type of visit with another is established by the federal executive body that carries out the functions of developing and implementing state policy and legal regulation in the field of execution of criminal penalties.
4. To receive legal assistance, convicted persons are granted visits with lawyers or other persons entitled to provide legal assistance, without limiting their number, up to four hours. At the request of the convicted person, meetings with a lawyer are granted in private, out of earshot of third parties and without the use of technical means of listening.
Article 121. Conditions for serving imprisonment in general regime correctional colonies
1. Those sentenced to imprisonment, serving their sentences under normal conditions in general regime correctional colonies, live in dormitories. They are allowed:
b) have six short-term dates and four long-term dates during the year;
b) have six short-term and six long-term dates during the year;
4. Convicts serving sentences in strict conditions live in locked premises. They are allowed:
Article 123. Conditions for serving imprisonment in strict regime correctional colonies
1. Those sentenced to imprisonment, serving their sentences under normal conditions in high-security correctional colonies, live in dormitories. They are allowed:
b) have three short-term and three long-term dates during the year;
2. Convicts serving their sentences in light conditions live in dormitories. They are allowed:
b) have four short-term and four long-term dates during the year.
Article 125. Conditions for serving imprisonment in special regime correctional colonies
1. Those sentenced to imprisonment, serving their sentences under normal conditions in special regime correctional colonies, live in dormitories. They are allowed:
b) have two short-term and two long-term dates during the year.
2. Convicts serving their sentences in light conditions live in dormitories. They are allowed:
b) have three short-term and three long-term dates during the year.
Article 129. Conditions for serving imprisonment in colony settlements
1. In colony settlements, those sentenced to imprisonment:
a) ... may have dates without limiting their number.
Article 131. Conditions for serving imprisonment in prisons
4. Convicts serving a sentence under a general regime are allowed to:
b) have two short-term and two long-term dates during the year;
5. Convicts serving a strict regime sentence are allowed to:
b) have two short-term dates during the year;
Article 133. Conditions for serving imprisonment in educational colonies
1. Convicts serving their sentences in educational colonies under normal conditions live in dormitories. They are allowed:
b) have eight short-term dates and four long-term dates during the year;
2. Convicts serving their sentences in light conditions live in dormitories. They are allowed:
b) have 12 short-term dates and four long-term dates during the year. By decision of the administration of the educational colony, long visits may take place outside the educational colony.
3. Convicts serving their sentences under preferential conditions live in dormitories. They are allowed:
b) have short-term visits without limiting their number, as well as six long-term visits during the year with residence outside the educational colony.
5. Convicts serving sentences in strict conditions live in isolated living quarters, locked during free time from study or work. They are allowed:
b) have six short-term dates during the year.
Article 137. The procedure for applying penalties to those sentenced to imprisonment in educational colonies
1. Convicts placed in a disciplinary cell are prohibited from having long visits... .
Excerpts from the order
Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation No. 205
“On approval of internal regulations of correctional institutions”:
67. In the manner established by Art. 89 of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation, convicts are granted short-term visits with relatives or other persons in the presence of a representative of the administration of the correctional institution. Long-term visits are granted with the right to live together with a spouse, parents, children, adoptive parents, adopted children, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, and with the permission of the head of the correctional institution - with other persons.
68. Permission to visit is given by the head of the correctional institution or a person replacing him, upon the application of the convicted person or the person who came to him for a meeting. If a visit is refused, a note about the reasons for the refusal is made on the application of the person wishing to meet with the convicted person. Documents proving the identity of those arriving on a date, as well as their family ties with the convicts, are: passport, military ID, identity card, birth certificate, marriage certificate, documents of the guardianship and trusteeship authorities.
69. Convicts, as a rule, are released from work for a period of long visits followed by subsequent or previous service.
70. The first meeting may be granted to the convicted person immediately after the convict’s arrival from the quarantine department to the detachment, regardless of whether he had a previous meeting in places of detention. If there is a right to short-term and long-term visits, the type of the first is determined by the convicted person. Subsequent visits are granted after a period equal to the quotient of twelve months divided by the number of visits of this type allowed to the convicted person per year.
71. The time during which visits to convicts were not provided due to the introduction of a regime of special conditions is counted towards the period after which convicts may be granted visits.
72. The duration of visits may be reduced by the administration at the insistence of the persons on the date. Combining dates or splitting one date into several is not allowed.
73. Convicts must appear neat for visits. During long visits, they can use clothes, linen and shoes brought by relatives. Convicts are subject to a full search before and after visits.
74. A convicted person is allowed long-term or short-term visits simultaneously with no more than two adults, together with whom may be minor brothers, sisters, children, and grandchildren of the convicted person.
75. Long visits with other persons are granted only in cases where, in the opinion of the administration, such visits will not negatively affect the convicted person.
76. Persons who arrive on a meeting with convicts, after the administration of the correctional institution has explained to them the procedure for conducting a meeting, hand over the prohibited items for storage until the end of the meeting to the junior inspector for meetings against a signature.
77. Citizens arriving on dates, their clothes and belongings are searched. If prohibited items hidden from inspection are discovered, the administration of the correctional institution takes measures in accordance with the requirements of the current legislation of the Russian Federation and these Rules.
78. If a person arriving on a meeting refuses to have his belongings and clothes searched, he is not allowed a long-term meeting with the convicted person, but a short-term one may be granted.
79. If the arrivals violate the established procedure for conducting a meeting, it is immediately interrupted.
80. Persons arriving on a meeting with convicted persons are not allowed to bring any products or things into the short-term visiting rooms. For long dates, you are allowed to bring food (with the exception of wine, vodka and beer).
81. During long visits, additional services may be provided. Their payment is made at the expense of the convicts’ own funds or those arriving on a visit.
82. Replacement of types of meetings and visits with telephone conversations is carried out upon a written application of the convicted person.
83. To receive legal assistance, convicted persons, upon their applications, are granted visits with lawyers or other persons entitled to provide legal assistance. At the request of the convicted person, visits are granted in private, out of earshot of third parties and without the use of technical means of listening. Such visits are not counted among the number of visits established by law; their number is not limited; they last up to 4 hours during non-working hours for convicts and only during the hours between waking up and lights out.
