Inside a Siberian prison camp
“Remember – you are awaited at home,” reads a sign inside a high-security male prison camp close to the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
Prisoners at the camp are either reoffenders or those who have been convicted of very serious crimes. While they are there, they perform different kinds of work, from manufacturing furniture to producing bricks, sewing clothes and making mattresses.
The high-security camp is located on the outskirts of the village of Ariysk, not far from the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
Prison officers walk across a yard inside the facility.
Inmates carry lengths of timber at the camp, where a number of wooden products are manufactured, from boxes to prefabricated houses.
An inmate feeds timber into a machine.
A prisoner carries wooden planks.
An inmate loads coal into a furnace at the camp.
Prisoners shift a bag of stuffing as they manufacture mattresses.
An inmate sews the fabric of a mattress.
A prisoner beats a children's mattress in the workshop.
An inmate crosses himself in front of an Orthodox church at the camp.
A prisoner carves a wooden icon inside the church.
An inmate works on a wooden prefabricated mill.
Another inmate reaches out for a cucumber inside a greenhouse.
A cart drives along a dusty road outside the camp.
