The so-called "road" is the channel of mail between inmates. The inmates put out the rope, receive the package and pull in the rope before the guards can catch them.
In the common cell, a prisoner who has arrived here for the 5th time, prepares to receive his lunch ration.
Each day the prison receives new groups of prisoners, who are run through entry procedures and put into common cells.
Prisoners who do not violate prison rules are allowed a short walk in the internal prison courtyard.
Prisoners in the common cell. Because of overpopulation, there are 2-3 prisoners to a cot on which they sleep in "shifts".
Prisoners take their meals in the common cells.
Prisoners take a short walk in the internal prison courtyard.
Keeping cats in the cells is in direct violation of prison rules, which doesn't stop the practice.
A prison guard accompanies a prisoner to the toilet in the tuberculosis ward. Tuberculosis is rampant in Russian prisons.
In spite of overcrowding, free prison cells are always available.
Prisoners take a short walk in the internal prison courtyard.
A hairdresser shaves head to a newly come inmate in the Butyrskaya prison.
A so called pathway is seen in front of a window of the Butyrskaya prison. The pathway is a cord which the inmatse use as an unofficial means of communication.
Prisoners take a short walk in the internal prison courtyard.
Prisoners take a short walk in the internal prison courtyard.
Prisoners who do not violate prison rules are allowed a short walk in the internal prison courtyard.
Transfer window in the Butyrskaya prison.
Inmates of the Butyrskaya prison receive their dietary.
Inmates of the Butyrskaya prison receive their dietary.
Inmates of the Butyrskaya prison receive their dietary.
A shepherd dog in the Butyrskaya prison.
A hairdresser shaves head to a newly come inmate in the Butyrskaya prison.
Prisoners who do not violate prison rules are allowed a short walk in the internal prison courtyard.
Prisoners who do not violate prison rules are allowed a short walk in the internal prison courtyard.
Inmates of the Butyrskaya prison look through a hole in the cell door while waiting for their dietary.