"White Swan" - a prison where people are keptsentenced to imprisonment for life. Officially, the correctional institution is referred to as PKU IK No. 2 of OIC No. 2. Here those who are convicted of the most serious crimes are serving time: maniacs, murderers, rapists, members and leaders of gangs. All of them committed terrible acts: kidnapping, hostage taking, contract killings and so on. God forbid someone to personally learn about where the White Swan Prison is located. For reference, we can report that the colony is located within the city of Solikamsk, in the Perm region.
There are different versions of whyThe prison received such a beautiful and romantic name. Whether because of the white-brick walls of buildings, symbolizing the alleged wings of a bird; either because of the method of moving prisoners across the prison territory - by almost 90 degrees bending forward, with arms folded behind his back, that is, in the position of a swan; whether because of the monument to white birds, standing in the courtyard of the colony. Surely everyone knows the legend that a swan, having lost his beloved one, condemns himself to loneliness or even death. Circling over a dead lover, he falls headlong downward and crashes to the ground. So some criminals believed and believe that the White Swan prison is the place where they sing a swan song, will find the last shelter. Perhaps all of these versions are only echoes of prison romance. Nevertheless, swans are everywhere in the colony: on the gratings, above the entrance to the building where the prison warden's office is located, and even litter bins are made in the shape of swans.
The correctional facility began its history in1938 At first, only political prisoners were kept here, and only in 1955 the colony became a criminal. Since 1980, when the well-known EPTK was created, people from all over the Union began to send thieves to the law for re-education. The White Swan Prison has debunked the myths about free and beautiful thieves living in places not so remote. In 1999, the correctional institution was converted into a prison for life convicts. We didn’t have to rebuild much - the buildings were built in such a way that any shoots and connection with the will were excluded. Statistics show that for each prisoner there are an average of three ruined souls. After ten years of being in a colony, criminals are transferred to lighter conditions of detention: they have the opportunity to receive news from the house, to see their relatives.
The prison "White Swan" organizes the lives of convictsin accordance with international standards. In one cell there are three people, they settle everyone, based on the psychological characteristics of prisoners who are studied by a professional psychologist. Prisoners take a shower once a week, walk for one hour daily in cells located on the roof of the prison building. Learning and working for those sentenced to life imprisonment is forbidden in the first years - the criminals must be supervised by prison staff every second. The only thing that the White Swan prison allows is to educate ourselves, there is a library in the correctional institution. In addition, many here are becoming religious - in the center of the prison is a small church, built by the hands of the prisoners themselves. Around and around the perimeter of the colony - fences, powerful barriers, barbed wire, surveillance cameras, trained dogs. There was not a single case of a successful escape in the entire history.
When a convict dies, his relativessend a telegram. If the body is not collected within three days, the dead person is buried in the city cemetery. Among those who died within the walls of the correctional institution, there are also very famous figures of the criminal world. So, in 2002, the well-known field commander and Chechen terrorist Salman Raduyev departed here in the world. Some leaders of the Chechen gangster formations and thieves in the law are still in the colony. Many do not stand hellish conditions of detention, so the "authoritative" criminals are few. They behave quietly, calmly, and wait for hours when they “lay down their wings” in the dungeons of the White Swan prison.
