In penal terms, 'life' (as we all know) actually means long, but flexible, sentences, which reflect the relative gravity of serious crimes and allow sensible decisions about when the offender should be returned to society.
In one of Russia's most prominent trials concerning anti-Putin protestors, the authorities have shown that they will not tolerate protests against the ruling regime by sentencing seven defendants to penal colony terms, each from two-and-a-half to four years.
Criminologist John Pratt summed up the Scandinavian approach using the term "penal exceptionalism," referring to these countries' low rates of imprisonment and humane prison conditions.
Academic Nicole Curato has applied the term "penal populism" - appeals to voters who feel threatened by crime and not protected by the police or the courts - to the Philippines to describe a fantasy "that sets apart the virtuous public from the degenerates who do not deserve due process".
This month, the woman brings her passion about the issue of isolating people in tiny, dark spaces to the stage with The Box, a new play about the horrors of long-term penal segregation, which premiered at Z Space in San Francisco on Friday.
Khodorkovsky, who dared to fund opposition parties, pronounce his own political ideas, and attempt to cut pipeline deals with China without Kremlin permission, is now serving an eight-year term in Penal Colony No. 10, in eastern Siberia.
There is no such crime in the penal code; the correct term is assault.
Billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Putin critic, served his 10-year jail term in penal colonies from northern Russia to east Siberia.
Putin's critic and billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky served his 10-year jail term in penal colonies from northern Russia to east Siberia.
MOSCOW — Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the former Russian oil company owner and convicted felon who has already served one prison sentence in Siberia, was sentenced this month to serve his second term in a penal colony in a northern region bordering Finland.
