Any person can end up behind bars, will struggle to leave, and have little chance of not coming back again. Experts, human rights activists, and people with personal experience help us in our grand quest: to understand the inner workings of Belarus's prison system.

There are more than 30.000 people currently imprisoned in Belarus. No less than 20.000 of them are forced to work within the system's manufacturing facilities, doing anything from making uniforms for the "Evroopt" company and children's bedframes, to working with metal and even amber. That makes the Department for the Execution of Punishments, a subdivision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the largest commercial manufacturer in the country.

In this video we try to figure out what it is exactly, that's going on behind the Belarusian prison system's closed doors, and why things look the way they do.

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00:00 How many imprisoned in Belarus?
2:59 Reasons for getting imprisoned in Belarus
4:40 RUVD and the "monkey room": Gennadiy Shulman producer, art. 209 pt. 4
5:52 SIZO: Ihar Bantser frontman of rock band Mister X, art. 339 pt. 1
8:19 SIZO KGB: Alana Gebremariam civil and political activist, art. 342
9:08 SIZO "Valadarka": Aleksandr Knyrovich entrepreneur, blogger, art. 243 pt. 2 and art. 431 pt. 2
15:41 Colony: Artyom Vitkovskiy tattoomaster, art. 328
17:26 Daily life in a colony
20:53 Food and medicine
23:48 ShIZO & PKT punishment within punishment
25:43 Special treatment "you will beg for death"
27:37 Missing prisoners: Tatyana Khomich, sister of Maria Kalesnikava
31:44 History of punishment: from porub to GULAG
35:11 Dept. for execution of punishments an invisible giant. Slave labor in unbearable conditions
40:49 Online store instead of correction
44:45 Art. 411 of the Criminal code: your ticket to work without end
47:15 Changes backwards
56:51 Relationship between people and state

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