"White swan" is a prison where people who are sentenced to life imprisonment are kept . Officially, the penitentiary institution is called the PKU of the IC No. 2 of the OIC No. 2. Here those who are convicted of the most serious crimes are sentenced: maniacs, murderers, rapists, members and leaders of bandit formations. All of them committed terrible acts: kidnapping, hostage taking, contract killings and so on. Do not lead the Lord to someone on their own experience to find out about where the prison "White Swan" is located. For information, we can inform you that the colony is located in the city of Solikamsk, that in the Perm region.
There are different versions of why the correctional institution received such a beautiful and romantic name. Whether because of the walls of buildings constructed of white brick, symbolizing the supposed wings of a bird; Or because of the method of moving prisoners around the prison - almost 90 degrees bending forward, with his hands thrown behind his back, that is, in the position of a swan; Or because of a monument to white birds standing in the courtyard of the colony. Surely everyone knows the legend that a swan, losing his beloved, condemns himself to loneliness or even death. Having circled over the dead beloved, he falls headlong downwards and breaks to the ground. Some criminals believed and believe that the prison "White Swan" - the place where they will sing a swan song, will get the last shelter. Perhaps all these versions are only echoes of prison romance. And yet the swans in the colony are everywhere: on the bars, above the entrance to the building in which the chief's office is located, and even garbage bins are made in the form of swans.
Correctional institution began its history in 1938. At first, only political prisoners were kept here, and it was only in 1955 that the colony became criminal. Since 1980, when the well-known EPTK was established, there have been from all over the Union for re-education sent thieves in the law. The prison "White Swan" debunked the myths of a free and beautiful thieves' life in places not so remote. In 1999, the penitentiary was redeployed to a penal colony for life-sentenced prisoners. Something strongly rebuilt did not have to - the building and so built in such a way that any shoots, connection with the will are excluded. Statistics show that for every prisoner there are an average of three ruined souls. After ten years of being in the colony, the criminals are transferred to lighter conditions of detention: they have the opportunity to receive news from the house, to see their relatives.
The "White Swan" prison organizes the lives of convicts in accordance with international standards. In one cell three people are kept, settling all, based on the psychological characteristics of the prisoners, which are studied by a professional psychologist. Prisoners take a shower once a week, walk - one hour daily in the cells on the roof of the prison building. To learn and work for those who are sentenced to life imprisonment is forbidden in the first years - criminals must be under the supervision of the colony's employees every second. The only thing that the "White Swan" prison allows is self-education, there is a library in the penitentiary. In addition, many here become religious - in the center of the prison is a small church built by the prisoners themselves. Around and around the perimeter of the colony are fences, powerful barriers, barbed wire, security cameras, trained dogs. There were not recorded a single case of a successful escape in the whole history.
When the convict dies, his relatives are sent a telegram. If the body is not collected within three days, the deceased is buried in the city cemetery. Among those who died in the walls of the penitentiary, there are very well-known figures of the criminal world. So, in 2002, another well-known field commander and Chechen terrorist Salman Raduyev went to the world. Some leaders of Chechen bandit formations and thieves in law are still in the colony. Many do not survive the hellish conditions of detention, so there are not many "authoritative" criminals. They behave quietly, calmly and wait for the hour when they "lay down their wings" in the dungeons of the prison "White Swan".