RUSSIA: PRISONS OVERFLOW AS CRIME RATE SOARS

Russian/Nat As Russia’s crime rate soars, its prisons are overflowing. Jails are now housing 80 men in cells built for only 15. Lack of investment in the prison system and a breakdown in the legal network have brought about these inhuman conditions. APTV visited the prison in Ekatarinburg, which has the reputation of being Russia’s most overcrowded jail. This is just one of the communal cells in detention centre number one in Ekatarinburg. It’s supposed to hold a maximum of 15 men, but in