The contingent of this prison deprived the most terrible murderers. Russian prisons are places where it is better not to go
In the city of Sol-Iletsk, which is located in the Orenburg region on the border with Kazakhstan, there is a special prison, which is popularly called the “Black Dolphin”. This maximum security colony was created for the most dangerous criminals who received life sentences for their crimes. This post will introduce you in more detail to the prison from which it is simply impossible to escape.
The colony owes its unofficial name to a sculpture that was made and installed at the entrance by the prisoners themselves.
Currently, about 700 prisoners are serving sentences here, including terrorists, cannibals and serial killers.
On average, there are deaths for every convicted person, since in total about 3,500 people died at the hands of these criminals.
All prisoners were sentenced to life imprisonment. This is Vladimir Nikolaev, who killed a man in a drunken brawl, then chopped up his body and ate it.
Prisoners are under constant video surveillance. Convicts leave their cells only in handcuffs, which are fastened tightly behind their backs.
There are individual cages inside the individual chambers. Two people live on 5 square meters.
Cameras are checked every 15 minutes.
The camera does not see the courtyard, but only the sky. The walking yard is closed, you can only walk forward and backward in it.
Cells are often searched to identify the possible presence of prohibited items.
Food is carried to the cells.
The main food is soup with bread.
All convicts wear one black uniform with three white stripes.
There have never been any prisoner escapes in this prison.
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28.06.2017
63-year-old Anvar Masalimov became the most famous prisoner in Russia. Because this is the first and only suicide bomber in the history of the country who was released. And he came out of the very harsh prison- “Polar Owl.”
According to rumors, he was seen in Moscow and some others major cities. Journalists went crazy looking for Masalimov. But only correspondents found him." Komsomolskaya Pravda" And again behind bars...
SUIT MAN WHO SURVIVED
In 1980, Anvar Masalimov was 23 years old. He had already served in the army, got married, had a son, and got a job at a factory. He could live and be happy, but the guy took a different path, which led him to the death row.
It all started with get-togethers with colleagues. They drank, the conversation turned into an argument, and Masalimov chose a knife as an argument in the quarrel. As a result, the victim is dead, and the killer received 15 years. He was released in 1991 on parole (parole). No corner, no family - my wife filed for divorce long ago, my son forgot.
Masalimov took out his insult to the whole world on a pensioner from whom he rented a room after his release. At the trial, he came up with a beautiful legend: he took revenge on his grandfather for burning the photographs of his wife and child in the stove, which Anvar kept throughout his 11 years in prison.
These excuses did not evoke pity. The killer chose a very terrible method of revenge: he strangled the old man, dismembered the body and burned it in that very stove. Masalimov was sentenced to death.
He desperately clung to life. He appealed the verdict once, twice, wrote a petition for clemency addressed to the president... While the documents were traveling through the authorities in the country, a moratorium on the death penalty was introduced. The murderer was sent to the Polar Owl, a special regime colony for lifers, where he spent a quarter of a century.
There he continued to write complaints and appeals. And he achieved his goal, becoming the first person sentenced to capital punishment in the history of Russia to be released.
And all because of legal casuistry. Masalimov was convicted under the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. When the relevant document has already been accepted Russian Federation, from there the concept of “dangerous recidivist” was removed. This was an aggravating circumstance in Masalimov’s sentence. On the advice of a lawyer, he wrote a cassation appeal and got the case reviewed. At the same time, the court found it unproven that the killer was drunk. It turned out to be murder without aggravating circumstances, and this is a different article with a different punishment - up to ten years. Masalimov has already “overstayed” this term.
Now the former suicide bomber could even count on compensation from the state: after all, instead of ten years, he spent 25 in the colony.
But he didn’t even write a statement, he wanted to get rid of it all quickly,” the prisoner’s nephew told KP.
In total, Masalimov lived in prisons, colonies and isolation wards for 37 years. And so he was released...
PICKY RELATIVE
If his wife and son turned away from Masalimov even after the first murder, then his sisters, who live in Ufa, supported their brother as best they could. They wrote to him, sent messages to the zone.
As far as I remember, he didn’t like anything. You send a parcel, and in response he reproaches that they could have found better gifts,” says Masalimov’s nephew.
When the killer was released, the sisters were overjoyed. They greeted him in every sense as if they were their own: they settled him with one of his nephews in a private house, clothed him and gave him shoes, fed him, and supported him with money.
At first he was very withdrawn, almost didn’t talk to anyone. I just smoked a lot. And then he walked away and started talking,” the nephew recalls.
However, these stories made the hair on my head stand up. For the former prisoner loved to boast of his acquaintances with famous people. For example, with the Bitsevsky maniac.
There was no talk of getting a job. More precisely, as soon as the conversation started about this, the former prisoner began to complain about his health. And he wasn’t bombarded with job offers - who wants to get involved with a 60-year-old repeat killer?
But still, something human remained in Anwar. He spent all his strength to meet his son Ruslan. All that was known was that he lived in Ufa. And he long ago disowned all his relatives on his father’s side. When relatives contacted his son, they tried to persuade him to see his father, but he flatly refused.
When Anvar realized that he would never see Ruslan, he closed himself off again.
It became impossible to communicate with him. The mood is constantly bad, I don’t like anything, every conversation turns into complaints that no one understands him, says Masalimov’s nephew.
After another quarrel, Anwar slammed the door and declared that he would never set foot in this house again.
FUCKING CONFESSION
Without the supervision of his relatives, the former prisoner ended up in history again.
The money given by his sisters was enough for Anvar to rent a room on the outskirts of Ufa. The owners of the apartment drank from the bottle every day, and their home looked more like a hangout: dirt, garbage and homeless-looking guests.
Masalimov also started drinking. But he managed to find himself a “bride” - this is how he introduced 42-year-old Elena to his sisters. Despite the quarrel, he still stopped by to wash, wash clothes and borrow money.
At the end of last year at rented apartment There was another drinking party going on. One of the guests began to openly pester Elena, but she rudely refused her suitor. And when he tried again, she hit him with a knife.
Having sobered up in the morning, the company began to think about what to do with the corpse. They somehow washed the blood off the floor and decided to relax. Masalimov was sent to get drinks. On the way to the store, he saw a police patrol squad and told the police everything.
During interrogation, he explained the reason for his frank confession.
It cannot be said that Masalimov was wrong in his reasoning. Although Elena confessed to the murder, Anwar was also sent to a pre-trial detention center. He was involved in the case as a witness. But when the investigation was already coming to an end, the woman suddenly refused a sincere confession. Now she claims that it was Masalimov who wielded the knife. In addition, the lie detector that was used to test the repeat offender showed that he was not honest in everything. “I realized that sooner or later the murder would be revealed, and no one would look into his biography; what happened there, they would immediately close it,” he said "KP" is the investigator on this case.
The investigation continues, they will soon conduct a confrontation between the cohabitants - apparently already former ones. In the meantime, Anwar remains where he spent most life. Behind bars.
But questions remain not only about this story. I wonder what those who made the decision to release the life-sentenced murderer will say now. And those who were supposed to control him after his release.
Komsomolskaya Pravda is monitoring the development of the situation.
If the residents of the YUK-25/6 facility, nicknamed the “Black Dolphin,” were able to vote on the use of the death penalty, the majority of them would vote “yes.” That is, for a death sentence to themselves.
Those who are inside this red-brick building dating back to Catherine’s time, when lifelong hard labor was already here, have never seen the sculptures of those same dolphins from the fountains that gave this terrible institution such a poetic name. As soon as the life-prisoner’s foot touches the Sol-Iletsk soil, a canvas bag is thrown over his head. This is also done for the safety of the prisoners themselves. The arriving contingent is the most terrible killers who have taken the lives of more than one hundred people - cannibals, rapists, terrorists. Oleg Rylkov abused, for example, 37 girls who were eight or nine years old. “Can you imagine what they would do with these in an ordinary zone? - say the jailers. “They would have torn it to shreds in a second.” The possibility of blood feud is not ruled out here: if desired, you can see the prison yard from the windows of nearby houses, which means you can shoot the enemy. Therefore, a bag is needed so that it is not clear who is being led. Through the line of guards with frantically barking and shepherd dogs tearing from their leashes, the handcuffed prisoners run to their final abode.
Executions in Russia have stopped since 1996, when a moratorium on the death penalty was introduced. They say that with the start of a jury trial, the moratorium will be lifted. Many people who worked in the correctional system were supporters of the death penalty. Now they believe that death is too easy a punishment.
Today in Russia there are over three and a half thousand people sentenced to life imprisonment. But even if the death penalty is reintroduced now, it will not affect them - the law does not have retroactive effect.
"Black Dolphin" is today the largest specialized prison for death row. It is designed for approximately a thousand people. Lives in it half as much. On the wall near the door next to each cell are photographs and a list of their inhabitants. The cell, measuring three or four square meters, is a kind of cage: bars separate the prisoners from the outer door and from the window.
Four bunk beds screwed to the floor - two bunk beds on each side, a washbasin and a toilet. The beds have immaculate parallelepipeds of blankets. It takes the inmates of the cells several hours a day to achieve this result. You can't see the sky from the window. Death row inmates see him only from the prison yard, where they are taken blindfolded. During the day, no one has the right to sit on the bed, otherwise they will be punished with a rubber truncheon and a punishment cell.
Salman Raduev, one of the most famous guests of YC 25/6 in the past, tried to ignore the prison rules at first, but very soon became the same as everyone else. You can only sit in the cell on an iron stool screwed to the floor. At the same table you can read books from the library and write letters to your family. There is a local radio here, on which representatives of different faiths speak. The prisoners listen to everyone. Twice a year, visits with family are allowed - also in a cage. But many relatives have long abandoned the monsters. None of the employees working here have any doubts that their charges are exactly like this. “At first you feel sorry for them,” they say, “but when you find out that they have six, eight or more ruined human lives, the pity disappears.”
If you quietly look into the door “peephole” of the cell, you can see how this closed little world lives: someone motionlessly looks at a strip of light from a window in which the sky is not visible, someone walks distantly from wall to wall, someone sits on a stool. As soon as you ring the key or the window for serving food, everyone takes the “starting position”, called in local parlance the “KU pose”: at knee level they hit the nearest wall with the back of their head, close their eyes and open their mouth. At the same time, the hands are raised up and the fingers are spread out. With the command “Report,” the cell duty officer quickly reports: names, articles, and who is in prison for what crimes. The faster and more clear the report, the less inmates will have to stand in this terribly uncomfortable position.
One of the most famous inhabitants of the “Black Dolphin” is “Mujahid” Salaudin Temirbulatov, known under the nickname Tractor Driver. Video footage of Dudayev's former colonel executing a Russian soldier has gone around the whole world. In the colony they say that the Chechen bandit is perhaps the most disciplined prisoner and does not at all look like a thug.
Theoretically, after 25 years of imprisonment, the issue of pardoning individual prisoners could be considered. This is practically impossible in conditions of maximum security and tuberculosis.
Canadian scientist John Silye derived the general effect of stress on the human body - the so-called Silye curve. Everyone here walks along this curve. The first year a person lives by learning about new conditions and himself in these conditions. Then there is a period of stabilization for three years, during which time a person is like a robot, he follows commands without thinking. Then the prisoner either continues to be a robot, or quickly fades away - both mentally and physically. Lymph nodes become inflamed and ulcerate gastrointestinal tract, adrenal glands fail.
This is probably why many of the death row prisoners, instead of asking for clemency, ask for the death penalty. At least as an exception.
Lionel Tate
Lionel Tate was a troubled 12-year-old who loved wrestling and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. His mother worked part-time while staying at home with a neighbor girl, six-year-old Tiffany Yunick. One day, Tiffany was briefly alone with Lionel - and then she was found dead. Lionel stated in court that he and Tiffany were playing wrestlers, and the girl accidentally hit the table. But the judge did not believe him: 35 injuries were found on the girl’s body, including skull and child fractures, numerous bruises and abrasions. Lionel, however, continued to insist that the murder was unintentional. The public took his side, and the court was forced to replace the sentence of life imprisonment for murder with a more lenient one. Two years later, in 2003, Lionel was released on probation - and was immediately arrested again for the armed robbery of a pizza delivery man and assault on his client. Lionel Tate is currently serving a 30-year sentence in prison.
Eric Smith
Eric Smith is 14 years old in this photo taken during his 1993 trial. This thin, bespectacled boy was accused of the cold-blooded murder of four-year-old Derrick Robbie. Smith first strangled the baby and then broke his head with rock blows. At the trial, Eric fully admitted to his crime, but did not show a trace of remorse. He is now 37 and plans to apply for clemency next year. According to him, he repented and wants to devote his life to helping difficult teenagers. But it’s kind of scary to believe in it.
Jordan Brown
11-year-old Jordan Brown shot and killed his father's pregnant fiancée, Kenzie Hawke, in cold blood in 2009. He fired several shots at her from his own gun, a gift from his father: a passionate hunter, he taught the boy to his hobby. The court intended to try him as an adult - then he would have faced life imprisonment. However, the lawyer was able to convince the jury that, despite the brutality of the crime, Brown should be tried as a juvenile offender. As a result, he ended up in a correctional colony for juvenile offenders, and in 2016, at the age of 18, he was released on parole, having received new documents so that his name tarnished by the crime would not prevent him from starting new life. Nobody knows what's wrong with him now.
Brendan Dassey
In 2005, 16-year-old Brendan Dassey was accused of the brutal rape and murder of a woman named Teresa Halbach and sentenced to a long prison sentence. Dassey himself fully admitted his guilt. However, lawyers were able to draw the attention of judges and public defenders to numerous formal violations in Dassey's case. Thus, a young man with an intellectual disability (his IQ never exceeded 70) was interrogated in the first days without a lawyer or legal representative. It was quite possible, the lawyers insisted, that the police themselves had put the confession into Dassey’s mouth. As a result, Brendan was released - and no one still knows whether he is truly innocent, or whether the judges released a brutal killer.
Curtis and Catherine Jones
In 1999, in Florida, 13-year-old Katherine Jones and her 12-year-old brother Curtis, in advance, conspired to shoot their friend Sonia Speight out of envy for her more prosperous life. Both were sentenced to 18 years in prison. Later, in an interview from prison, Katherine spoke about the constant physical and sexual abuse she and her brother suffered in home. Judging by her stories, even in prison she and Curtis were better off than with their relatives. Both Joneses were recently released: Catherine, before her release, married a sailor with whom she corresponded, and Curtis became a priest.
Nathaniel Abraham
In 2007, 11-year-old Nathaniel Abraham was convicted of an armed attack on a store that killed a 19-year-old customer. The murder was clearly premeditated: Nathaniel had obtained a gun in advance and was learning how to shoot, telling his girlfriend that he was going to “shoot someone.” However, the jury could not bring itself to try the skinny kid as an adult criminal - and Nathaniel was sent to a juvenile correctional facility with the right to release upon reaching 18 years of age. In 2007, at 20 years old, he was released. And by 2012, he was serving a 20-year sentence for drug possession and trafficking, awaiting another trial for attacking prison guards.
Jamie Silvonek
In 2015, 14-year-old Jamie Silvonek began an affair with 20-year-old cadet Caleb Barnes. One day, Jamie's mother, Cheryl Silvonek, found them in bed. Having threatened Caleb with criminal prosecution for having sex with a minor, Cheryl said that the young people should get married. Having agreed for the sake of appearances, Jamie and Caleb decided to do something different: after asking Cheryl to take them to the concert, they strangled and beat her to death in their own car. At first, Caleb took all the blame upon himself, but it soon became clear that Jamie was the instigator and main participant in the murder of his own mother. Both lovers received 35 years in prison.
Wendy Gardner
Wendy Gardner was the daughter of a drug addict. After her mother died of AIDS, 13-year-old Wendy and her 11-year-old sister Katie moved in with their grandmother, Betty Gardner. The life together of the grandmother and granddaughters did not last long: in the same 1994, 13-year-old Wendy and her 15-year-old boyfriend James Evans decided to kill Betty. The granddaughter and her boyfriend strangled the grandmother with fishing line, forcing 11-year-old Katie to watch the murder. Then a couple in the same room had sex. Despite the extreme cruelty of the crime, the court turned out to be humane towards juvenile offenders: James was sentenced to 9, and Wendy to 7 years in prison. Evans' sentence was subsequently extended, and Wendy Gardner was safely released from prison in 2004.
Christian Fernandez
In 2013, the Christian Fernandez case shook all of America. A 13-year-old boy lived with a 25-year-old mother, who not only did not pay attention to him, but also constantly left him to look after his two-year-old brother David, leaving home for a long time. One day, returning home, the boys' mother, Bianella Suzanne, found her youngest son unconscious. Without being too concerned, the mother took the child to the hospital a few hours later, where he soon died. The investigation found that David had been beaten. Christian soon admitted that, angry at his brother, he hit him twice against the bookshelves. Both the boy and his mother were in the dock. Christian received 7 years in prison without the possibility of release until 2018, when he turns 19. But Bianella Suzanne was released in the courtroom, having served only a preliminary sentence. Surely this worthy woman will have time to give birth to several more children.
Kelly Ellard
In 1997, 15-year-old Kelly Ellard from British Columbia was charged with the murder of 14-year-old Rina Werk. It was a typical case of teenage bullying: a group of six girlfriends invited Rina to go for a walk, but when she arrived, they began to brutally beat her, put out cigarettes on her skin and set her hair on fire. When Rina finally managed to escape, two girls, Kelly Ellard and Warren Hlavacki, followed her and beat her again. And then Kelly, clearly unable to stop, dragged the half-conscious Rina to the river and drowned her. Despite the evidence, Kelly's case was reviewed three times until she was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2005 for the brutal murder.
Paula Cooper
15-year-old Paula Cooper was the leader of a street group of girls from 14 to 16 years old. In 1986, they attacked 78-year-old Ruth Pelke on the street, intending to rob her. But it turned out that the old woman only took $10 with her. And then Paula, in a rage, stabbed the woman 33 times. The girls were tried, sentencing Paula's accomplices to terms from 25 to 60 years in prison, and Paula herself to death. Such a cruel sentence to the young girl caused an explosion of indignation: more than 3 million signatures were collected for her pardon, and even the Pope sent a personal appeal to the Indiana authorities calling not to take Paula’s life. As a result, the sentence was commuted to 60 years in prison. As a result, Paula Cooper spent about 30 years in prison and was released early in 2013. Two years later she committed suicide.
"Elkhart Four"
In 2012, 16-year-old Blake Lyman, 17-year-old Levi Sparks, 18-year-old Anthony Sharp and 15-year-old Jose Quiros, along with an older friend, 21-year-old Denzel Jones, decided to go on a robbery. They broke into a neighbor's house, thinking he was away. However, the owner of the House, Rodney Scott, was at home. It was he who shot and killed 21-year-old Denzel. However, his death was blamed not on the victim defending his property, but on the surviving unlucky robbers: after all, it was their criminal actions that led to the death of their comrade! As a result, each of the guys received 20 years in prison for robbery that led to the death of a person. And although many protested against the cruelty of the sentence, the criminals themselves did not commit murder! - however, if you think about it, there is the highest justice in this approach.
Joshua Phillips
In 1998, 14-year-old Joshua Phillips killed his 8-year-old neighbor Maddie Clifton. For a week, the teenager actively participated in the search for the girl, after which Joshua's mother accidentally discovered her body under his bed. The girl was beaten to death with a baseball bat; in addition, several knife wounds were found on her body, and signs of strangulation were found on her neck. As Joshua himself lamely explained, he and Maddie were playing baseball and he accidentally hit her in the face with a bat. The girl screamed, blood flowed, and he panicked, afraid that someone would find out about what had happened. So he dragged Maggie into the house and continued to hit her with the bat until she was quiet. Then, just to be sure, he stabbed her several times with a knife and strangled her with a telephone wire. Joshua Phillips was sentenced to life in prison without the right to seek a reduction until September 2017.
George Stinney
This case is the oldest and most controversial in the collection. In 1944, 14-year-old George Stinner was accused of killing two white girls, 11-year-old Betty Binniker and 8-year-old Mary Thames. The girls were picking flowers in the field when someone sneaked up and hit each of them several times with a heavy iron rod. The only person arrested was George Stinner: someone saw how the girls, on their way to buy flowers, approached him and asked for directions. This was virtually the only evidence, but it was enough for the jury to sentence the 14-year-old to death for double murder. George was executed on June 29, 1944. Later, his cellmates, upon leaving prison, said: the boy repeatedly told them that he did not want to die for a crime that he did not commit.
John Vinables and Robert Thompson
Despite their angelic appearance, this couple are the most terrible killers in the entire collection. On February 12, 1993, they kidnapped two-year-old James Bulger from his mother at a shopping center. Taking the boy to the tracks behind the railway station, they began to systematically abuse the child. The criminals beat him, kicked him, threw stones and sticks at him, trampled on him, and finally brought a multi-ton iron beam down on his head. The criminals were caught by accident: trying to get rid of the body, they carried it to the rails, where they came into view of the video camera. The public rebelled, demanding the harshest possible sentence, but due to their youth, both criminals were sentenced to 8 years in prison. Upon release, they received new documents - a chance to start a new life. However, judging by the leaked information, at least John Vinables did not take advantage of this chance and was at least once in prison.
Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tuckett, Hope Ripley, Tony Lawrence
Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tuckett, Hope Ripley and Toni Lawrence were 14 or 15 years old when they brutally tortured and murdered their friend, 12-year-old Shanda Shyer, in 1990. It's hard to believe that the instigator of the murder was Melinda - the smiling, curly-haired girl from the first photo. The reason was that she was jealous of Shanda and her ex-girlfriend. The girls beat their victim and tried to cut her throat, but they failed and simply beat Shanda to death. As a result, the main participants in the murder, Melinda Loveless and Laurie Tuckett, each received 60 years in prison without parole until 2020. Toni Lawrence received the least: sincerely admitting her guilt, she received 20 years and was released early in 2000, after 9 years in prison.