Escapes from Russian Prisons and Camps Increasingly Common, Mostly Because Guards are Corrupt, ‘Sovershenno Sekretno’ Says

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Dec. 2 – Despite the fact that breaking out of jail is a serious crime in and of itself and despite the introduction of video cameras to watch prisoners, escapes from Russian prisons and camps have become increasingly common, with at least five major ones so far in 2024, Sovershenno Sekretno journalist Aglaya Ostraya says.
    Most of those who do escape are able to do so because of corruption among the guards, she says; and most of those who do so are more or less rapidly caught. But despite that prisoners for one reason or another continue to try to leave extending a longstanding Russian tradition of jailbreaks (sovsekretno.ru/articles/bezopasnost/anatomiya-pobega/).
    And unless the authorities are able to suppress corruption among Russian jailors, Ostraya suggests, there is no reason to think that the current upward trend in jailbreaks will not continue.