Anna Karetnikova, a member of a public commission monitoring prisons, says Ms Tolokonnikova's letter broke a taboo and "stirred up the swamp".
The equipment now used to scan carry-on luggage and passengers in American airports costs roughly one-third as much as the more sophisticated systems that were developed for screening entry into high-security buildings, monitoring prisons or searching for drugs at immigration stations, Mr. Sheridan said.
Oleg P. Orlov, Memorial's chairman, said that accepting the "foreign agent" label would so undermine public trust that rights advocates would no longer be able to carry out work like monitoring prison conditions or researching disappearances in the restive North Caucasus.
They've taken the same business model that produces more violence and recidivism in private prisons and applied it to GPS ankle monitoring, prison health care, and residential reentry centers ("halfway houses").
Her experience includes monitoring prison conditions for the federal courts, litigating class actions to improve prison medical treatment, and coordinating legal rights workshops for women with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda.
His group, which monitors prisons, argues strongly for preserving parole, a position that runs against the present political tide in this state.
Rose Braz, a defense lawyer in Oakland and the program director for Critical Resistance, a group that monitors prisons and criminal justice issues, said the state's new numbers were evidence that the Delano prison was unnecessary.
They are detained with their guardians in facilities often run by private prison companies whose expertise lies in incarcerating adult criminals, monitored by prison staff untrained in child welfare and ignored by state child-welfare authorities, who don't license or monitor prisons as care facilities for minors.
Another visitor, Zoia Svetova, a liberal journalist who is a member of a public council that monitors prisons, told me, "He couldn't say much, just that he felt bad and wasn't safe".
"She is doing everything in her authority to institute a saner and more effective approach to this problem," said Robert Gangi, executive director of the Correctional Association of New York, which monitors prisons.
ROBERT GANGI, the executive director of the Correctional Association of New York, a group that monitors prisons, said that he was struggling to reconcile an ex-convict's hope for a new life and Mr. Steinberg's abominable crime.
