Prison jargon and thieves' concepts are widespread in Russia and abroad among certain segments of the population. For many decades, unwritten rules and regulations have regulated the way of life of convicts in the zone and outside it. The prison has its own hierarchy, where the thief in law is in charge, the lower castes are subordinate to the higher castes, and a peculiar vocabulary is the only possible way of communication.
Prison concepts and laws
When setting out on a stage, it is difficult for a person to imagine the atmosphere in which he will find himself. The lifestyle lesson presented in films, books and other sources looks different in reality.
In the zone, prison law is observed - rules that are mandatory for convicts. It regulates the way of life of prisoners, their behavior, communication, interaction between each other and representatives of law enforcement agencies. There is no document that clearly states its provisions; some points are changed or added, depending on the specific zone.
At the same time, it is important to separate the concepts of “prison law” and “thieves’ law”. The first is part of the second.
The thieves' law is a more extensive set of rules and regulations; some of its points apply only to the life of thieves in law and persons seeking to be “crowned”. It includes provisions:
- comply with and disseminate the ideas of the criminal world;
- do not enter into relations with law enforcement agencies;
- to be honest;
- do not participate in politics;
- ensure order in the correctional labor institution (correctional labor institution), pre-trial detention center (pretrial detention center);
- know how to play cards.
Additional rules include:
- do not testify or admit guilt;
- you cannot have a family, property and savings;
- do not use weapons;
- not to work;
- regularly stay in places of detention and others.
Additional provisions in modern correctional institutions are largely unenforced, but a few decades ago they were of great importance.
Prison law is respected not only by thieves in law, but also by other representatives of crime. Its provisions include:
- allocate a share to the common fund (share for the common good);
- do not swear, do not insult;
- not to inform;
- do not raise a hand against a thief in law;
- honor parents;
- do not accuse unreasonably;
- be responsible for what is said;
- don't steal from your own people.
The prison law was created to streamline the lives of people in limited conditions. Without it, 10-20 people in a cramped cell are capable of tearing each other's throats out over the slightest trouble. Violators of the code are punished; mistakes are not forgiven here.
An offensive or inappropriately spoken word or phrase can lower a person to the lowest rank, which will leave an imprint on his further existence in the zone.
Prison slang is used behind bars and in everyday life. However, in the zone it is of fundamental importance and it is impossible to do without it. The suspect begins to master the criminal language while still in the pre-trial detention cells, often thanks to “experienced” comrades.
Kinds
Conventionally, prison concepts are classified into 2 groups:
- positive- correct for the prisoners themselves;
- negative- characteristic of lower suits.
In this case, positive concepts are divided into:
- Human- fundamental provisions that both the lads and the men adhere to. Concepts strive for interaction, mutual assistance, empathy and are mandatory for everyone.
- Thieves- opposition to authorities and society, primarily to law enforcement agencies. When it is said “to live according to the concepts”, it means precisely according to thieves, voluntarily accepting the provisions of the code. If, for example, an offense can be forgiven according to human concepts, based on sympathy, then according to thieves - in no case.
Negative ones are divided into:
- disgusting- when a person went against human concepts (theft from cellmates, conviction for rape, crimes against children, and so on);
- cops- represent the opposite of thieves.
What not to do and say
It is important to talk (talk) correctly with fellow inmates, to monitor speech - this often becomes a fundamental point in assigning a person a status (suit). The look, thieves' phrases, cunning, posture, inner strength help others understand what the prisoner is like.
Good guys should know:
- You can't send anyone. Even the unfinished phrase “Fuck you...” indicates an accusation of being a homosexual, for which the person to whom the expression is addressed can despise, beat, and even kill the person who said it. It is impossible not to respond to an insult - this will be perceived as agreement and will become the reason for being assigned to a lower caste.
- You cannot swear and make baseless accusations (by making them). Even the curse word “your mother” can be regarded as an insult by savvy cellmates, especially in a relationship with knives. Therefore, words that cannot be said in the cell include swearing and other offensive language. All accusations must be substantiated, they must be explained and supported by facts.
- In prison conditions, strength and martial arts skills are practically of no use, since they are prohibited. Physical violence is allowed if you are sent. In this case, reprisal must be mandatory. Convicts rarely beat each other, and there must be good reasons for this.
- You need to be responsible for your words. This applies to important issues and trifles. For this reason, if a statement is in doubt, it is better to remain silent.
- It is right not to interfere in processes that do not concern you. For example, nothing should be done or prevented from suicide. Even if a cellmate asks for a blade, this must be done.
- You cannot take anything away or steal (raft) from prisoners - this is regarded as lawlessness.
- You shouldn't trust anyone. Usually, newcomers are treated neutrally - without aggression or sympathy. Excessive goodwill should alert you, but you shouldn’t pour out your soul.
In a particular prison, there may be additional restrictions, especially if you are sent to an institution for juvenile offenders: do not pick up things that have fallen from the floor, do not finish smoking cigarettes for representatives of lower castes, do not sew up socks, do not have a spoon in your clothes pocket, do not wash your upper one with one washcloth. and lower body and so on.
How to say hello correctly
The first impression that a convict will make on others upon entering the cell also depends on his greeting.
It is important to understand that prisoners do not shake hands. This is due to the lack of information about who the person is, the fear of “getting dirty” - to say hello to a representative of a lower caste (omitted).
Therefore, no one will answer the handshake. Zashkvar (meaning “shame”) after contact with the “roosters” allows the convict to be ranked among their rank. It’s also “zapadlo” (humiliating) to shake hands with camp administration staff, cops, and so on.
You should not say “hello” or “hello” - this will be regarded as equating both lower and authoritative castes with the same suit.
Greetings in prisons are usually done in Arabic: you can say “salaam alaikum” or “general salaam.”
In prison they don’t greet “roosters.”
Once in the camera, the suit affiliation can be seen with the naked eye. The lower the bunk (bed) on the bunk and the further away from the toilet (bowl), the more prestigious the caste. The main person is in the far corner on the lower tier, diagonally from the place of relief. You need to go to him and definitely say hello.
In common huts (cells), the greeting is pronounced loudly, then they go to the criminal corner. Newcomers usually live as a separate family - it is better to sit down and talk to them, to ask for information about the way of life, who is related to whom. Communication takes place exclusively on a first-name basis, even if there is a significant age difference.
A conversation (bazaar), a kind of test or interview is held with each new person in the cell. Based on the answers to the questions, they put forward a decision about who you are and where you will be assigned. Often, newcomers have to guess funny Zonov riddles that are asked for fun, but the results can affect the situation of the prisoner.
In prison, it is not customary to address people by their first and last names; nicknames are used for this purpose. For newcomers, they are chosen by a caste of authorities.
In the future, a handshake is practiced, but only with familiar people in whom there is trust. It is advisable to observe the “old-timers” - their behavior shows who can be allowed closer and who cannot.
Suits
In Russian prisons, everyone belongs to some type (group) of prisoners. At the same time, it is possible to go from a higher rank to a lower one due to a mistake (serious offense), but on the contrary, it is almost impossible. Once, for example, a person finds himself in the lowered caste, he remains in it forever.
Authorities (thieves)
The highest privileged suit, which includes experienced criminals who have an excellent command of concepts and carry them out in prison and at large. They also call themselves “prisoners”, “travelers”, “brothers”, “vagabonds”, “tramps”.
This group maintains order in the zone, sets rules, resolves conflicts and assigns punishment.
It is difficult to get into the caste, since the requirements are high - the path is closed to those who served in the army, held a leadership position, were in power, worked as service personnel (waiter, taxi driver, and so on).
Thieves in law deserve special attention - generally recognized crime bosses who comply with thieves' laws.
Guys
A large group that includes more than half of all convicts (60-70%). The definition of what men are includes prisoners serving time for standard crimes: fighting, theft, and so on.
At the same time, the men do not serve the thieves, but they also do not get involved with the administration of the prison.
In this neutral group there are individuals who are listened to by the highest caste of the criminal world.
Goats
This designation is given to a group whose representatives cooperate with the camp administration: voluntarily or under duress. They occupy the position of librarian, caretaker, commandant and others.
It is worth noting that a person with a weak character can easily become a goat, since it is difficult to refuse to work for the administration; convicts are intimidated and coerced.
In the zone they become traitors, they are not allowed into the common fund, they are not given the right to vote and participate in showdowns.
However, prisoners are allowed to communicate with them, chat (talk), and touch them. Many of the “goats” actively report to their superiors about what is happening in the cell and carry out their instructions.
Roosters
The lowest caste, which in prison slang is also called “offended”, “lowered”, “untouchables”. Representatives of this group in the zone are not considered people.
This includes those who have been omitted for any reason or passive homosexuals. In this case, sexual intercourse is optional. The symbolic ritual, as they are lowered in the zone, represents the passage of the genital organ over the lips of the prisoner (translated as “paraffin”).
Outcasts live hard in the zone, they don’t talk to them, they are forbidden to touch the “roosters” or sit next to them. They are not greeted; in order to hand over the object, they throw it on the floor. Those convicts eat from separate dishes and do not touch the belongings of other convicts.
According to statistics, numerous groups of “untouchables” are present in prisons for juvenile offenders. Sometimes separate cells are organized for them - offended cells.
The "cockerels" do the dirty work - they clean the toilets. To humiliate them, holes are made in the dishes. During the meal, they are forced to plug the leaky container with their finger. Prison laws are extremely strict for members of the group. However, using them for an act of sodomy is not considered a shameful act.
Some representatives from the “rooster” caste do not reach the end of their sentence and commit suicide.
Intermediate castes
Based on the specific place of deprivation of liberty, the caste structure may change. The hierarchy in this case includes additional intermediate groups. This is especially true in prisons for juvenile offenders.
Priblatnennye (sixes, moving, striving, stirrups)
The caste consists mainly of gopniks who ended up in the zone after being in juvenile detention (prison for minors). These are street punks, petty bandits, swindlers, hucksters.
Their rank is higher than that of men, they are patronized by the higher ones (as long as there is a need for them). They don’t call themselves sixes and don’t allow others to, otherwise they ask for it.
The criminals monitor the communication between the cameras, carry out the running and sorting of little things (notes), tea, sweets, and drugs.
There are torpedoes, usually those who have lost at cards - they act as executors of harsh assignments (contract killings) when they are serving their sentences or after completing their sentence. Local important people are protected by bulls (mouflons) - also representatives from the caste of the criminals.
Woolen (Wool)
They belong to the group of “goats” and, on behalf of the prison administration, create chaos. They single out a press hut (a cell in a pre-trial detention center), inhabited by “woollings” who commit violence against the prisoner placed there. The latter then becomes offended, despite the fact that he was not released on the thieves’ command.
The caste consists mainly of former thieves who turned to the administration for protection (due to threats from their own).
Forshmaki
The intermediate caste belongs to the group of “roosters”. Those who are lowered may have a certain hierarchy: chief roosters, workers, forshmak. However, the latter are considered to have a higher status than homosexuals.
The origin of the slang verb “stuffed”, “stuffed” is due precisely to the name of the caste. It means to defile, to dishonor. For example, take an object from someone who has dropped it or drop it on a bucket.
Devils (Shnyri)
A person can also be called “horse”, “chushka”, “chushok”, “chushpan”, “drawing”. They belong to a low caste, but are not lowered. They do dirty work: washing, sweeping, and so on. They cannot contradict and are obliged to carry out instructions.
The group includes newcomers of weak will, prone to submission, men and thieves who have committed a serious mistake, as well as prisoners who do not take care of personal hygiene.
Why the “devil” is no worse or better than the “rooster” is determined by his position as a slave. They also do work like derelicts, which, according to boys’ standards, is a waste to do. Offended people do not wash things, otherwise they will become worn out, this is what the “stuff” does.
“Shnyr” (“six”) is the personal property of the thieves, which makes it different from a simple “devil.” Without an owner, he returns to the “horses” or becomes neglected.
Prison hierarchy
The thief in law is considered the main one in the zone - he is ready to stay behind bars and perceives this as a natural stage of life. Moreover, several representatives of a given caste may be present in prison. However, there is always only one leader (leader) - he determines or removes those watching, helps solve problems and conflicts. Usually it has separate comfortable apartments, is supplied with food, communications, and so on.
In market conditions, status can be bought with money, but such “non-ideological” representatives are called “oranges”.
The order in the cell or part of the prison, compliance with the concepts is monitored by the overseer (godfather), who is appointed by the thief, their gathering or thieves. Often he is a candidate for "coronation".
Next in the hierarchy are the thieves - professional criminals who are serving their sentences not for the first time. For those in denial (who do not accept the prison regime), the conditions of existence are determined by the beholder, limiting their lawlessness.
The Priblatnennye are the sixes of the previous ones, although in the zone you cannot call them that. They perform a communications function, protect thieves and carry out serious assignments.
The “middle class” of the hierarchy belongs to a large group of men. At the same time, a person who has risen from childhood may have advantages - not to work, to lose things to “goats” and “devils” at cards, and so on. This is inaccessible to an ordinary “first mover” man. The caste is treated with respect, those who belong to it work, adhere to prison rules, and part of their property is transferred to the common fund.
“Goats” (activists, bandages, and so on) cooperate with the camp administration for certain concessions or incentives. “Camels” are especially trying to get parole (parole). Ordinary citizens often end up here, ready to commit any meanness in order to be released. They are usually convicted for everyday reasons (bribe takers, skinheads, fans of fighting, petty swindlers, alcoholics, and so on). The category of “goats” also includes wool ones, acting on special assignments.
“Devils” and “roosters” make up the lower castes that do dirty work in the zone: washing floors and toilets. The “shnyri” wash the prisoners’ uniforms and other clothes, but oppressed people are not allowed to do this.
In addition to those mentioned, the prison structure includes peculiar “ranks”:
- Garbage- former police officers who arrived in the common area. For obvious reasons, they become the main enemies of the lesson; it is considered an honor to omit them.
- Sweatshirts- prisoners who did not pay off their gambling debt. May refer to devils or omitted ones. First-timers, in order not to join the group, should not play “for fun” or “just because”.
- Rats- steal things from other convicts.
- Politicians- political prisoners.
- Bags- a rich prisoner, often a major or the son of a high-ranking person, who is well supplied from outside. The caste is considered cool, such people are respected because they share with the teachers and guards (overseer, pupkar).
Women's prison
They belong to the “red” zones, since the thieves are few in number to create a “black” zone. The suit is held here by mice (bandages).
There is no established hierarchy and castes; prison jargon includes the concepts:
- Koblukhi (Kobla, Kobel)- active lesbians, but unlike roosters, their living conditions and the attitude of their cellmates are normal. They can “marry” or fight for “center skins”, “pretties” (beautiful girls).
- Tramps- a synonym for “thieves” among men, a representative of “negative”. However, due to their small numbers, they do not enjoy authority.
- Older- looking around the barracks, cell. They are chosen by prisoners or the administration.
Penalties for violations
Failure to comply with the provisions of the prison law is punished with severity and cruelty, and does not go unnoticed for all castes.
Punishments for offenses can be light or heavy, including:
- Beating. A “blow to the ears” of a thug transfers him to the caste of “men”, while only representatives of the highest class (thief in law, authorities) are allowed to commit it.
- Limb fractures. This is usually used to punish card debtors or for beating another prisoner.
- Omission. Conducted by an act of sodomy or symbolic.
- Murder. Punishment for especially serious offenses is theft from the common fund, communication with law enforcement agencies. The decision is made by a local meeting of authorities.
A thief in law for minor offenses (baseless statements) can be slapped in the face by an equal in rank, for more pronounced ones - a blow to the ears, for serious offenses he is punished with death.
Zone
Depending on whose concepts predominate in prisons: cop or thieves, they are divided into red and black, respectively. Under excessive pressure and oppression by the administration, a prisoner riot is possible. It is organized by authorities in the form of protests. For example, this is expressed in a mass riot, when convicts sew their mouths shut and refuse food and water.
Red
The order of the administration reigns here, and the interaction of convicts with it is encouraged. The guard in the red prison is the first representative of the godfather (chief of the operational unit).
Variants of such an organization are manifested in meticulous adherence to the regime: daily formation, total departure to work, to the canteen, movement only in formation, clothing - black overalls, tags, plates according to the template are required.
For violations - refusal to transfer, a meeting, sending to a punishment cell (the abbreviation stands for punishment cell), PKT (cell-type room), indoor (closed) regime (closed), additional time, and so on.
Black
Order in prison is based on thieves' principles; significant importance is given to suits. It is not customary to cooperate with the administration and is considered shameful. Black zones predominate in Russia, especially in large cities.
When organizing such prisons, the support of the lads from outside is important. It consists of punishing lawless officers among the cops (epaulets), establishing contractual relations with the administration, often on a paid basis. At the same time, the money can go legally in the form of a charitable contribution for medicines, humanitarian aid, and so on.
Gifts to convicts for the New Year, birthdays, women and juvenile criminals help raise “black” authorities and promote ideology.
Dictionary of thieves' jargon (fenya)
The presented translator list includes some criminal words, expressions, jargon, and abbreviations from the slang prison language (argot).
Automatic mug - military.
AUE - the acronym means in the jargon “the prisoner way of life is one”
Cormorant is a hooligan, a petty thief, a victim of scammers.
Balander - distributes food.
Banderlog is a random person in the criminal world.
A demon - according to Wikipedia, is a person who works well or is willing to take the blame for a crime.
Blamba - stamp, seal.
The whore is a setup.
Bosota - lack of money in your wallet.
Taking on a pug or a dog is a crime by putting the victim to sleep.
Bugor is the foreman in the prison, the senior in the cell.
BUR - high security barracks.
To kick - to beat.
Valet is a person with mental disabilities.
Wafer is the male genital organ.
Vata - bedding. “Damn, roll up the cotton wool!” - “Damn, make the bed!”
Pick a pocket - steal from a pocket.
VTK (VK) - educational colonies.
Glavshpan is the main one in the thieves' community.
The clay mixer is an active homosexual.
Comb is a passive homosexual.
Rattlers are candies.
Goose - having connections with the police.
Gumoznitsa is a dirty, sexually transmitted prostitute.
Game is a person without registration.
DPNK - duty assistant to the head of the colony.
Dubak - security guard, watchman.
EPKT is a single chamber-type room.
Zhigan is a repeat offender.
Zakezh - show me.
Loading a pheasant means lying.
Zek - convict, comes from z/k (decoding of the letters - prisoner of the canal army, comes from the history of the construction of the White Sea Canal).
ITK is a correctional labor colony.
Kicha is a prison.
A picker is a woman caressing another.
To be an asshole is to violate thieves' principles.
Covers - provides protection, covers.
Ksiva - documents.
Laiba - syringe.
Lepen - jacket.
Lepila is a medical worker.
Lokalka - fenced-off areas of the residential area where the barracks of 1-2 detachments are located.
Lyarva is a bad woman, a thief who betrays her own.
Maromoyka is a dishonest person in prison and at large.
Safecracker is a safecracker.
Mokrukha - murder.
To drizzle is to be afraid. "Don't drizzle!" - "Don't be afraid!"
Mouse ace is an expression that insults a police officer.
The rider is a criminal deliverer of stolen goods.
Nishtyak is a good assessment of something.
Wearing a hat on a butch means having sexual relations with a man.
The common fund is a common thieves' fund, regularly replenished by criminal elements.
OCG is an organized criminal group.
Parasha - a place, a toilet for bowel movements in the cell.
Change your shoes - change your mind.
Drive, rattle, nickname - nickname, nickname.
An accomplice is an accomplice.
Half-poker - in slang it is defined as a person suspected of homosexual inclinations (by manners or appearance).
To fall into kukan means to find yourself in a hopeless situation, subordinate to someone.
Prokhorya - boots.
Kennel - barracks, educational institution of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Rams is a card game.
Radish is a woman's bag, an unreliable person.
Skakar (Skokar) - translation from prison slang means like a thief who resorts to breaking and entering to steal.
SUS - strict conditions of detention.
Samen is a detective.
Cart - a statement of complaint.
Terpila is a victim, a victim of a crime.
Farmazonit - selling counterfeit gold and other jewelry. The one who does this is called a pharmacist or a pharmacist, respectively.
Queen - who pretends to be a lot, but at the same time represents nothing.
A window keeper is a thief who enters through a window.
Fraeras and fraerki are people who have nothing to do with the thieves, the criminal world. This can be the name given to those who have been in thieves, then the thieves are called “trump fraers.”
Freyfeya is a person who is accompanied by luck and wealth.
Fufel is a liar, talker.
The move of the thieves is a characteristic ideology and way of life.
Owned - owned by someone.
Nonsense - comes from chepushilo, which means a morally insignificant, despicable person.
To scatter the black stuff - to obscure, to deceive.
Chmoshnik is an unpleasant person who cooperates with the prison administration.
Shkonka - bed, bed.
Dude is a guy.
Jackal - taking things from other prisoners.
Rogue is a prostitute.
Shmakodyavka is a teenage girl.
Shmokha is a village woman.
Shmyr is a watchman, an orderly.
Schniffer is a safe or a thief who enters non-residential premises by breaking into walls and ceilings.
The pins are the eyes.
Shobla - a group of thieves or prostitutes.
Shtriban is an elderly man.
Tattoos
The choice of tattoos (patches) must be taken with full responsibility, understanding their meaning and being aware that for some you will have to answer. This applies primarily to abbreviations and categorical markings (in the form of stars, domes, rings).
Nowadays it is not practiced to ask about tattoos, but you should still be prepared to answer questions from fellow inmates.
The list below will help you decipher the meaning of some.
Rings
The number and style of tattoos on the phalanges of the fingers are very diverse and contain a system of secret symbols and signs.
From them you can determine the biography, color, character, etc.
The table provides a description of tattoos that will help you learn to read their meaning.
A tattoo in the form of the abbreviation MIR is shown - shooting will correct me.
The CAT is a symbol of thieves and represents the quote "native prisoner". But for such a tattoo, just like for “BOSS” (he was convicted by a Soviet court), EVIL (I will take revenge on the cops for everything) must be answered.
The common dot tattoo is also usually painted on the hand. It is allowed to apply to all stripes during a stay of even several days in a pre-trial detention center.
The abbreviation SLON is also written with the decoding indicated in the figure, LHVS, SER, various card suits - diamonds, spades, crosses, hearts.
On the body
There is a lot of variety here. The image of animals is common: wolf, tiger, leopard. They usually mean “grin at power” or “man is a wolf to man.”
The image of an apple means “I will love one, as I promised.”
The last star, tattooed on the knees, also states that the wearer will not kneel before anyone. For it, tests for strength in the zone are possible.
The painted images of churches are also a symbol of imprisonment; the number of domes corresponds to the years the person was imprisoned. At the same time, the tattoo is “completed” with the new date.
In the lower castes
Such suits are typically marked with tattoos, shown in the picture, with abbreviations (IRIS - both a slave and an informer).
This is especially true for the downtrodden caste. These can be roses, roosters or characteristic inscriptions (ZHOVM) applied to parts of the body that are visually clearly visible (hands, head, face, and so on). The “eyes on the stomach” tattoo also signified homosexuality.
When leaving prison, a person tried to remove such tattoos, but often there were scars that could be used to determine the lower color
How to use a hairdryer or a dictionary of criminal terms... under the cut
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Abwehr- operational unit of the ITU.
paddy wagon- a specially equipped vehicle for transporting people,
those in custody.
Machine- fountain pen.
Authority- a person who is respected by other prisoners.
The leader of a criminal group, an experienced, seasoned thief.
Unit- syringe for drug injection. Also - weighing scales
drugs.
Openwork- order.
Academician- criminal, authority.
Academy- a prison or gathering place for thieves and cheaters.
Aquarium- temporary detention center (temporary detention center).
Acroba t - passive homosexual.
Assets- those prisoners who cooperate with the correctional administration
labor establishment.
Shark- sentenced to a long term with confiscation of property.
Alligator- a criminal capable of any crime.
Altushka- money, small change.
Alura- a real prostitute.
Amara- a prostitute.
Amba- stalemate.
Ambets- end, death, destruction, collapse, getting caught red-handed.
Embrasure- a window in the cell door.
American- playing with coins for money.
Amnukha- amnesty.
Ampoule- a bottle of alcohol.
Anarchist- a criminal working alone.
Antique- antique product.
Anthracite- cocaine.
Arab- swindler, swindler.
Aristocrat- a highly qualified pickpocket.
Arkashka- noose-noose.
Armenian Queen-- passive homosexual.
Artist- scammer.
Atas!- Be careful! Observation point or a cry, a signal about
danger.
Atasnik- a person who gives a sign in case of danger.
Scam- a swindler.
Acetonka- a drug purified with acetone.
Babai- old man; moneylender; Asian.
Baban- a simpleton, a village man.
Grandma- ring, ring.
Grandmas- money.
Butterfly- shirt, T-shirt.
Trunk- pocket.
Badai- take it.
Badyaga and breeding badyaga- chatting, doing unnecessary things.
Badyazhit- cook food.
Bazaar- scream, noise, conversation.
Bazarilo- a person who cannot be trusted, a talker.
Market- steal from pockets in a crowded place.
Baslat- call for help, yell.
Baybut- dagger.
Baydan- airport, train station, marina.
Baidaman- a person who steals on a canoe.
Bike- setting fire to a rag or cotton wool near the face of a sleeping cellmate.
Baikal- weak tea.
Bucky- watch.
Hammer in, hammer in, screw in tanks- fool your head, deceive,
distract attention by talking.
Cormorant- an inexperienced, novice thief, hooligan.
cormorant- petty hooliganism.
Cormorant- prisoners who do not enjoy authority.
Balabans- money.
Balalaika- revolver.
Balanda- prison stew.
Poison gruel- lie, talk nonsense.
Balander- food distributor in prison, kitchen helper.
Balans- sawn logs, cleared of branches.
Balda- head; drugs; penis; deception.
Drive the bulldozer- lounging around, masturbating.
Baldezh- drug intoxication.
Baldoch- soldier.
Ballerina- a master key, a tool for opening safes.
Balcony man- apartment thief.
Roll the cylinder- criticize a more authoritative person.
Baluster- fats, sausages, butter, lard.
Ban- a train station or gathering place for criminals.
Bander- brothel keeper.
Bandera- owner of the brothel.
Bandyak- parcel post.
Banzhikha- station prostitute.
Bank- a table, a gathering place for sharpers.
Bank hold- deal cards, play the game.
Jar- a liter of vodka.
Banks bet- hit the skin with the edge of your palm, pulling it on the stomach or
twisting it with your fingers.
Bank- distribute cards to players, treat accomplices with alcohol
Let's have a successful business, share the stolen goods.
Banovaya- station prostitute.
Banova, bathhouse attendant- station thief.
Bath - corporal punishment.
Ram, lamb - a bribe to the inspector of the correctional facility for carrying prohibited things.
Bagels are handcuffs.
To fight is to copulate.
Junk - stolen items, clothes, unusable items.
Barin is the head of the colony, having authority among the convicts.
The master is the boss among the convicts.
Bark is a hiding place in the ITU.
Barkaz is a restricted area, a fence wall in a colony.
Baruch is an accessible woman.
A huckster is a buyer of stolen goods, a merchant speculator in the zone.
Basiwala is an incorrigible thief in law.
Basit - speak in a raised tone.
Batard is a godfather.
Batteries - ribs.
Baton is a young prostitute, a plump woman.
Babut - overnight shelter.
Dad is a cook.
Dang - play, dance.
Bacillus - lard, high-calorie foods, transmission.
Bacyl - sick, frail, thin.
Bashkir is a policeman.
Bayan - injection syringe, steam heating battery.
Bebekhs are stolen personal items.
Babies - eyes.
Put out the bebiki - gouge out your eyes.
Running means stealing.
Trouble is Finnish.
Poverty - arrest, detention.
Poor guy - a pistol.
Eyeless is a person without documents.
Beat - unbutton the victim's coat or jacket during a robbery.
Hit the top - steal from the top pockets.
Beitsals are male testicles.
Snipe is a louse, a cigarette butt.
White bone is the highest thieves' caste.
Squirrels are money.
White and black - a passport in someone else's name.
Beluga - women's bag.
Benzene - codeine.
The demon is the thief's girlfriend.
Besogon is a liar.
Lawlessness is a criminal group that does not comply with thieves' customs
and traditions.
Lawlessness is a violation of the thieves' law; impudence without
limit.
Clueless is the head.
Crazy - drugs.
Tusk is an asshole.
Bixa is a young beautiful woman.
Beat - introduce.
Bimo - gold things without precious stones.
The exchange is an industrial zone in the colony.
The tag is an identification document.
Batiaya is a high-class thief.
A broken hut is an overexposed den.
Vitka - convicted of malicious hooliganism with the use of cold
or firearms; revolver.
Beaten (guy) - experienced, experienced, reliable.
Beating tambourines means beating.
B. on the batteries - hit in the ribs.
B. show off - to be indignant with the victim about the theft.
B. across the screen - to pickpocket.
B. tail - to betray accomplices.
Beach is a tramp.
The benefit of thieves - money collected from honestly working in the colony, ve-
cabbage soup, products used to help needy thieves in law.
Blagodatnaya is a master key.
Grace is a washbasin.
Blat - connections used for selfish purposes.
Blat in the city - police officers taking bribes.
Blat on the board - faithful to death.
Blatnaya, blatnoy - having connections with the criminal world.
Blatkomitet is a group of authorities.
Blatkoshka is a prostitute, an accomplice of the robber.
Blatmashinka - secret room.
Blatmusic is thieves' jargon.
To blot - to persuade.
Blatok, blatokain - carrier of stolen goods,
Blatsky is close to the underworld, an insider.
Blathaza, bladekhata is a meeting place and residence for criminals.
To blabber - to know thieves' jargon, to join a group of thieves -
rovke.
Blinov - ACE.
Block - lynching, torture.
Fornication is an unpleasant situation for the convicted person (for example, he owes money).
Beaver is a well-dressed man who carries a large sum of money;
speculator; a convicted person who does not comply with the requirements of the administration.
Beans are cartridges.
To make a fool of yourself is to have a long, empty conversation.
Bodyazhivat - filter the drug solution through cotton wool in a syringe.
A fighting game is a game of cards without cheating techniques.
God's weed is hashish.
Fight - cards.
Marked battle - marked cards.
Side - wallet.
Side wind is a cheater's trick.
Boxer is a bully who beats people.
To be sick means to be in custody, under investigation or in court.
Bolt is the male genital organ.
Pain - arrest, detention.
The patient is arrested, detained.
A large bevel is a major theft.
The big man is a repeat offender; organizer and leader of the gang.
Bomb - pocket watch.
The bomber is a beggar.
Borzet - to show insolence.
A beard is bad luck.
To cheat is to deprive something of something by deception.
To flounder is to fail.
A tramp is an authoritative thief.
A tramp who has been snitched is a person suspected of snitching.
The tramp zone is a colony in which thieves' concepts prevail.
Talk - talk.
B. on a hairdryer - speak in thieves' jargon.
Tops - hair; demagogy.
Boyar is the head of a group of thieves.
Boyarize - persuade, win over.
The team is its own guys.
Bracelets - handcuffs.
Brothers - friends, comrades.
My brother is a former cellmate.
Brotherly point - four (playing card).
Brother - door.
Take - steal; play cards; arrest.
B. on oregano - to choke.
B. for the gills - to expose.
B. horse - throw a string with a note into or out of the cell.
B. on bass - trying to incriminate a crime without sufficient evidence
evidence
B. to withhold - to hide part of the money when purchasing, not to give it away.
B. gop-stop - rob.
B. in a draft - hide, using the passage yard.
B. on a dog - drug the victim and steal.
B. on character - to rob the victim by talking to her.
B. by letter - to cut the victim's clothes or bag while committing theft.
B. on a collar - to grab with one hand from behind when robbing.
B. for snoring - grab by the throat.
B. na sharap - act boldly.
B. for arable land - to sell goods that have not yet been stolen.
The brigade is a thieves', bandit's brigade.
A brigade is a group of thieves in a colony or prison.
Tramp is a common name for convicts.
Throwing - throwing food or things through a restricted area.
Brunette - paddy wagon.
Tambourine - roll, bread.
Bugai is a wallet.
A scammer is a wallet flipper.
Bugor - foreman in the colony; boss; leader among the convicts.
The bitch booth is a solitary cell for convicts who are at risk of reprisals.
va.
Budnik-fly agaric - informant.
I will call - serving the sentence until the end of the term in a colony.
Bouquet - a set of articles of the Criminal Code for one convicted person; special sub-
a burr of cards made by a sharper; person against whom sexual assault was committed
vy acts in various forms.
Bulan is a pickpocket.
Rolls (loaves) - buttocks.
Boulevard - floor.
Bulza is an active homosexual.
Bulyga is a fake diamond.
Riot - shuffle the cards.
Bura is a card game.
To drill is to lie.
Bourcals are eyes.
To drill is to say the wrong thing.
Burom - in a crowd, impudently.
Mutter - distract the victim's attention by talking.
Busyga is a lover of the sweet life.
Prop - a specially created environment for card sharpers to play cards.
You.
Bottle shop - a crowd of people; crowding.
Buffers - female breasts.
Booze - alcoholic drinks.
The bay is a reliable hangout.
To babble - to talk, chat; deceive.
To beat - to beat.
The bull is a weak-minded person; a person who carries out the will of the leader.
Bull-horner - exceeding the plan.
To be poor is to suffer due to the lack of drugs.
The bull is a cigarette butt.
Deadwood is a drunk who is being stolen from.
Jack is clueless.
V. Chervonny is a fraudster.
Ballet - stupid.
Get out - go away.
To bring down - to kill, cut; leave.
To knock down - to stab, kill.
To wallow is to go crazy.
An option is a party with drugs.
Yours don’t dance - you lost; you are not right.
Yours are not there - lose.
To barge in is to be arrested.
At the top - in the outer pockets of clothing.
Drop into the board - kill.
Camel - bunk bunk.
Bezukha - luck.
The age of freedom is not to be seen - the oath of criminals.
Venik is a venereal patient.
Rope - collapse, failure, arrest.
To squirm - to defecate.
True - sawn-off shotgun.
Surely - a cheater's trick.
Rotate - steal from the counter.
B. corner - steal a suitcase.
A twirler is someone who steals hand luggage.
Helicopter - bunks, trestle bed.
Vertun - stealing from shelves under the guise of a buyer.
Vertukhai - guard.
Top - outerwear.
The top guy is the one who steals from the top pockets.
Vercheny is a trickster; unknown, unstudied person.
The paddle is a spoon.
V. grab it, drop it in the trash - take a spoon, go to the dining room.
Vesnovoy, Vesnovoy is an experienced convict.
Vesovoy is a convict who enjoys authority.
Wind - passenger cars.
Vetochka - station.
Ragberry raspberry - random apartment.
Vetoshny - overly gullible, simpleton.
V. cat is the thief’s mistress, not related to the criminal world.
V. courage - to pretend that nothing has to do with it...
Windy window.
Windy rags are wearable items stolen through the window.
Eternal fraer - hard of hearing.
To hang is to rob.
Forbearance is deception when exchanging money.
To raise money is to steal money.
An adult is an adult thief.
Take into rhyme - identify.
V. in a pack - beat up.
V. jump - break a lock for the purpose of stealing.
V. laugher on character - enter into a conversation with the victim, whom he himself
he robbed.
V. dream book - steal from a room when the owners are sleeping.
V. by the collar - grab by the collar.
V. holster - to break into the wall of an apartment or storage room.
V. raspberry - rob a rich apartment.
V. on Annushka - to scare.
V. to scam - to deceive.
V. on anas - to oppress a cellmate.
V. on a bull - to rob with the help of a planted wallet or paper -
Nika.
V. for restraint - to rob with the help of deception.
V. on the throat - to achieve something with impudence.
V. on Kalgan - hit your head in the face.
V. on the envelope - to deceive. -
V. on a red tie - kill with a knife in the neck area.
V. hooked - suspect.
V. on the bag - kill.
V. for sand - sell copper instead of gold.
V. to show off - to deceive, to scare.
V. to grab - unexpectedly attack from behind, taking you by the throat.
V. on the gun - to deceive.
Kind - any thing that can be pawned.
Fork is the head.
Pitchfork - failure; the inevitability of arrest.
To wag is to make excuses.
V. tail - toady.
Screw - male penis.
Give the screw, cut it - run away.
Screw - a soldier on a tower.
Vira - escape from a colony, prison.
To hang is to be under suspicion.
Visyak (wood grouse) is an unsolved crime.
Vikhrya is a pickpocket.
Roll the balls - drive a foreign body ("ears", "collar") under the skin of a man -
whom the penis.
To contribute is to betray.
To hammer in tanks is to deceive.
To the forehead - to speak openly.
To invest is to betray.
To break in means to get caught, but hope for release.
In kind - in fact.
In ignorance, he does not admit his guilt.
Interior - internal lock.
Water - ITU administration; warning about danger in a card game
re; murder.
The water is pouring - watch out.
To lead an ox is to deceive.
Water - dark night.
Waterfall is a crowd where pickpocketing is easy.
Plumbing is a penis that is not capable of erection.
Air is a lie.
Take a frog - watch the police.
Station - bathhouse.
To graze an ox - to tell tales.
Wolf is a law enforcement officer.
Volga is a conventional cry before the start of a fight.
Hairy is a stranger.
The top is a window in the cell door.
Volyn - pistol, sawn-off shotgun.
Volt is a cheater's trick.
A thief is a skilled criminal who deals only with thefts,
strictly observing criminal customs and traditions.
V. in law is a repeat offender, observing thieves’ traditions, accepted into
brotherhood at a thieves' gathering.
An honest thief - one who observes thieves' laws, customs and traditions.
Sparrow is a padlock.
To scare away a sparrow means to break the lock.
Vorovayka is a female thief.
The thieves' caste is the highest organization of thieves-lawmen.
A family of thieves is a group of thieves united by common interests.
yourself.
Vorovskaya Malina is a group of thieves, which includes at least
five members of one "profession".
Thieves' suit - a group of thieves engaged in one
type of criminal activity.
Thieves' piece - food, things, clothes purchased at
funds obtained by criminal means.
The thieves' obshchak is a thieves' public fund in which money is deposited
wounds from thieves and other convicts.
Raven, voronok - police car.
Gate - female genital organs.
Eight - to deceive; simulate.
In a bubble - exposed in a lie.
To harness yourself is to take on something other than your own business; speak out in defense of someone.
To get involved - to get into something, to get into an unpleasant situation.
The doctor is a lawyer.
Invite a doctor and beat him up.
Get into it - understand.
An omniscient rag - a complaint to the prosecutor.
Omniscient - prosecutor.
Everything is going well - everything is going as it should.
To sweat is to get caught without the possibility of release.
Jump - voluntarily go to the isolation ward in order to escape reprisals
cellmates.
All the way - all the time.
Insert glasses - deceive; beat him up badly.
Get on skis - commit an offense in order to leave the cell in
connections with incompatibility between cellmates.
The whole Blinov family is visiting - to have all four aces in your hands.
You echo - provide something necessary.
Rub in - unexpectedly deliver a strong blow.
Rub it on your ears - deceive.
Quietly - hidden, secret.
Rubbing - side pocket of trousers, tea leaves left after chifir.
Rubbing - stealing from trouser pockets.
In color - accurately guess, identify something.
Lousy is a bad person.
To knock out is to beat.
Turn on the face - establish the true face.
In purity - beyond suspicion.
To pull out the tail is to deprive the thief's rights.
Otter - key to the passenger carriage; rope.
Otters - cards.
Seizure is theft.
To recover - to be acquitted, to be released from custody.
Throw something into the common fund - give something away for public use.
Break it out (put it on skis) - create an undesirable cellmate for
imposed conditions.
Take out the frame on your ears - jump out the window to avoid reprisals.
To thrash out a house - to commit theft in an apartment.
Graze - hunt down; find out, guess.
Drink - beg for something.
Jump out - move away from criminal activity after receiving permission
thieves
Vypul - an order to hide stolen property; a person who is lucky
when playing cards; House arrest.
V. with riveting - subscription to leave this item within 24 hours.
The degenerate is the first time convicted of embezzlement.
Revenue - a prison worker who takes bribes.
Set up a beacon for the messenger - warn about the danger of the drug carrier -
cov.
Set the pin and knock out the glass.
Exhaust glasses - passport.
To go out for analysis - to be subjected to criminal proceedings
de.
Tower, tower - capital punishment.
Vyazalovo - arrest, detention.
Knit - arrest.
Mating is robbery.
Mating with a show-off - robbery with the help of a gunner.
Tavrilo is a janitor.
Galyushnik, viper - hangout.
Galyan is a diamond.
Gaman - wallet.
Accordion is a dog.
Garrick is heroin.
Extinguish - hide; hit someone.
To be extinguished - to escape from the reprisals of cellmates, having voluntarily ended up in a fine
Noah insulator.
Gasha, gashnik - a fold in the upper part of trousers for storage is prohibited
puppy items.
Gayan is opium.
Hydro chicken - herring,
Talca is a special technique to take the victim by the throat.
Guitar - chisel; female genital organs; refusal, denial.
The guitar is a thief's crowbar; hangout.
The eye is an identity card.
The glazer is a train.
Clay - cal.
The clay mixer is an active homosexual.
Glot is a screamer; miser.
To stall is to stop talking.
Deafly - irrevocably, reliably, for sure.
It sticks out dully - it is in euphoria, in a drug intoxication.
A wood grouse is a man who robs drunks.
Jam - deceive; go crazy.
To persecute is to lie.
G. geese - pretending to be a fool.
G. dugu - report incorrect information about the place of the alleged crime
leniya.
G-fool - pretend to be crazy, a fool.
G. Maidan - go by train.
G. Maidan with rubella - accompany a freight train with valuable cargo.
G. empty - talk in vain; communicate meaningless information
tion.
G. in black - to deceive.
G. balls - to inform on someone.
Bay is cunning.
Gnit is a nonentity, condemned, unable to stand up for himself.
Gnitnik - underwear.
Rotten - former criminal; not susceptible to provocation; having
extensive life experience, knowledgeable of thieves' laws, customs, and traditions.
G. entry is a tricky approach.
Rotten things are brains.
Gnulovka - compromising the thief in the eyes of his accomplices.
To bend the soul is to give false testimony.
The top is a briefcase.
Golimy - undoubted.
Turn your head - play cards, dice.
Head on the washstand - slaughtered.
Give a voice - warn; respond.
Blue Danube - cafe, restaurant.
Goluiol is a passive homosexual who enjoys great demand.
Dove is a men's headdress.
A naked wasser is a failure.
Goly, goly, golyak - “lack of money in the stolen wallet.
Golchik is a teenage thief.
The messenger is a small-time drug dealer.
Racing - pursuit, surveillance; madness.
G. mark - to commit theft in public transport.
G. rotor - feign mental illness.
The hound is an assistant, close to the leader.
Gop is a place where you can spend the night for a small fee.
Top stop - robbery.
Gopnik, gopushnik - robber-tourist.
To hunch is to deprive someone when dividing.
To sculpt a hunchback is to deceive.
Grief is moonshine.
To burn means to be detained by the police.
Horizon - panel panel in the chamber.
The fire is burning - they are playing cardsharps.
Gorlovoy is a braggart, despised by thieves.
City - shop; GOVD, ROVD.
G. Kataev - prison.
Gorodukha - theft from a store, committed under the guise of a purchase.
Gorodushnik is a person who commits thefts from stores.
Preparing a passenger, a show-off, a dude - looking for a victim for a cheating game.
Rake, rake - hands.
The engraver is a counterfeiter.
The engraving is a counterfeit bill.
Gramophone - hashish; dog.
Grand is a robbery.
G. wet - robbery with murder.
To graph - to arrest.
Rook - having a large amount of money with him; pickpocket; victim, intended
stolen by a pickpocket.
Comb is a passive homosexual.
Gremlo is a sentry.
To row half the earth is to steal.
Mushroom - wooden spoon; large sum.
Thunder - wardrobe, wardrobe.
Loud, loud - burglary.
Gromshchik is a burglar thief.
To bang is to kill.
Rough is good.
Rough leather - wallet with money.
G. squeaking for junk from Frey - stealing things in a carriage from a citizen -
on the.
G. shmara is a beautiful girl.
Rough - butter.
Breast - grab by the breasts.
Soil is an object of crime.
Pear is a barn castle.
Pears are food products.
Eating too much dirt means ending up in prison.
Goodlay is Jewish.
Horn - accordion; buttocks.
G. mixed - a passive homosexual.
Gudyr, Gudyryan - anal hole.
Guzh is a fool.
Gujban is a taxi driver.
To drink is to drink alcohol without measure.
To buzz is to have fun.
Gulnoy - a person who has escaped from custody, is in illegal detention
position
Gunka is a padded jacket.
Gunyavyi is a syphilitic.
Hydroelectric power station - places for despised convicts, the edge of the table, the outermost sleeping
places.
The giver is a gunner.
To crush a joint is to peek.
Pressing the liver - caring for a woman, inducing her to have sexual intercourse.
Press - tie.
Let me have a nap - let me smoke.
A kind man gave a piece of bread - he accidentally revealed his accomplice during interrogation.
Nick.
Dalnyak is a distant colony.
Tribute is the collection of funds from convicts for the needs of a thief in law.
To give is to condemn.
D. probability - check.
D. screw - to escape from the convoy.
D. race - don't let it be stolen.
D. anesthesia - stun with a blow to the head.
D. tattoo on a messenger - indicate the person from whom you can buy a nar-
cats.
D. pay - run away from the scene of the crime.
D. rubber - shake hands.
D. slam to the edge - having formed, give a bribe.
D. mind - beat.
Datsela - one cube. see injection drug.
Dacha, dacha - transfer of food to a convicted person.
Summer resident - one who commits thefts at dachas.
Twenty by two - follow instructions unquestioningly.
Twenty-five - inspector of the operational search department.
Two sixteen - carefully; There are two police officers behind.
Two on the side - a prison guard, a policeman.
Twelve for two - running errands.
Crazy - hopeless, weak-minded, stupid.
D. bullshit - to deceive, not to pay the loss.
The janitor is an employee of the prosecutor's office.
D. Jr. - assistant prosecutor.
A nobleman is a tramp, a homeless person.
Double-barreled shotgun - a woman who has sexual intercourse with two people at the same time
men.
Two-Eyed - binoculars.
Dvuhodka is an apartment with two exits.
Deberts, tertz is a card game played by sharpers among themselves.
Virgin - convicted for the first time for theft of state property, repentant -
Xia and embarked on the path of correction.
Nine is an informant.
To do is to steal.
D. legs - run away.
D. traffic jam - create a crowd in order to commit pickpocketing.
D. wall - to block the victim from prying eyes.
D. clean - steal money.
The point is true - a game in which marked cards are used; Fine
prepared crime.
A businessman is a thief who can be trusted.
The hard worker is an upstart.
Demon - posing as a thieves or a thief in law.
Dennik is a thief who works only during the day.
To tear apart - to divide.
The village is a prison.
Wooden from the waist up - a weak-minded person.
Standing firm means not admitting to a crime.
Holding on to a pile means masturbating.
To hold - to protect.
D. ban - steal at the station.
D. mazu - to protect an accomplice.
D. style - behave proudly and defiantly.
Pull - run away.
To pull the whistle is to grab you by the throat.
Troopers are thieves who throw things from moving vehicles.
Cheap - victim.
D. world - people of no interest.
Dynamo is a fraud.
Disc jockey - dishwasher.
Long - smart.
For a non-believer - to show off.
Appendage - an increase to the sentence.
To catch up is to understand.
Raincoat is a stone for self-defense.
To finish up is to pay for an insult.
Pound kumar - get sick after taking a drug.
At home, tell yourself - surrender when arrested.
House sniffer, homemaker, burglar - apartment thief.
Firefly burglar - an apartment thief who enters residential premises during the day
by selecting keys.
Road - a rope or thread stretched between the windows of the cells for transmission
any objects, things, notes.
Until the thaw - until the last.
To kill is to kill.
The daughter is a homosexual teenager.
The teaser is a mirror.
Dragon - criminal investigation inspector; dog; warden.
Firewood - matches.
Yeast is money.
Drop the cane - help out a detained accomplice.
Friendship is new - a fake key.
A crappy screen means things of little value.
Dubak - guard, janitor, warden.
Duvan - division of spoils.
Dougi - very bad; revolver: false information about the object of theft.
Blow - give out; smoke marijuana.
Dunka is a deuce in the cards.
Dunka Kulakova - masturbation.
Hollow - anal opening.
Dura - short-barreled weapon; scrap; hemp from which it is made
eat marijuana.
Fool - male penis.
To drive a fool - to commit sexual intercourse.
To fool - to beat, to leave in the fool.
Durdizvl is a voluntary prisoner.
Durka is a lady's handbag.
A fool - someone who steals from women's handbags.
Durogon is false information.
Dope is the general name for drugs.
Durynda is a conscientiously working prisoner.
Spirit is the head of the detachment in the ITK; guard policeman.
Duharik, duharik - drunk.
The oven is the anus.
A spiritual man is an adviser to the leader of a criminal group.
Brass is a badass.
Dushman is a criminal investigation officer involved in the fight against drug trafficking.
mania.
Dybat - look.
To rear - to fawn.
Melon - pregnant.
Melon is the head.
Leaky thread - a place on the border through which smugglers cross
carry drugs.
Dyryavy - a convicted person against whom an act of sodomy has been committed.
The devil is posing as a thief.
Drag by the collar - grab by the throat from behind.
Smoke is tobacco.
Uncle's house is a correctional facility, a prison.
Uncle, uncle - the warden, the head of the detachment at the correctional facility.
D. Mityai - transit prison.
D. barn - gap.
The woodpecker is a passive homosexual.
E
Egor is an accomplice who does not inspire confidence.
Food - mouth.
Foods - teeth.
A sole proprietor is a lone thief.
ELD is a person who does not belong to a criminal group.
Elna - thieves.
Yelnya is the general name for thieves.
Erikan is an old man.
Ruff - impersonate a thief in law, taking advantage of the absence of such
job in this company.
There's a left! - Done!
To go is to go under escort.
E. to the sky in the taiga - to lie without restraint.
Ruff is a thief expelled from the thieves' environment, but still giving himself away
for such.
Herringbone is drunk.
E. green is a former soldier serving a sentence.
Toad is a greedy person; criminal investigation inspector; detective; summer
a dance floor where pickpockets and prostitutes appear.
Toads - money; escorts.
Javert is a man.
To regret is to copulate.
Sting - needles for tattooing; knife; language; syringe needle.
Leave it and remove the poison - neutralize a dangerous person.
Japo - back pocket of trousers.
The heat is a hopeless situation.
Jargon - station.
Firebird - light bulb.
Jug - head.
Zhebrak - prone to vagrancy.
Zheka is a Finnish knife.
Pieces of iron - badges, medals, orders.
The railway is a gambling game of cards.
Iron Nose is a political worker at the ITU.
Iron fraer - rye bread.
Iron - crowns, false metal teeth.
The wife is a homosexual who satisfies only one convict.
Married - mixed with something.
J. dope - hashish mixed with tobacco.
To marry is to rob.
The groom is a passenger who plans to steal from him on the way; car-
a semolina thief cutting a woman's purse; victim.
The convent is a solitary cell for former informants.
Woman is a mattress.
The perch is a window.
The vent is the anus.
Burn - betray accomplices.
Zhzhenka - homemade paint for tattoos made from burnt rubber or pe-
cut sugar.
Zhigan is a daring thief; leader of a criminal gang; living off
punks.
Vest - a sharp tool, soldered into a ring, for cutting su-
mock or pockets.
Oily skin - wallet with money.
Fat is rich.
To live empty means to have authority among prisoners.
To live with the owner is to serve a sentence in a place of imprisonment.
Goon - thrifty, greedy; peasant.
Asshole - back pocket.
Zhorzhik, Zhokh is a fraudster.
Walking around means being left without money.
Beetle is an experienced thief.
Zhukovaty - familiar with the criminal world.
Zhulban is a thief.
Zhulman - a safety razor or a small knife, a pocket tool
thief
The crook is a small knife.
To cheat is to urinate.
Zababoshny is a convict who is attached to his family.
Gore - sell stolen goods.
To become brown is to become arrogant.
To fail is to betray; beat up.
Fill up completely - kill.
To fall over is to get caught red-handed.
Play bagpipes to persuade convicts not to work in the zone.
Curl - sell.
To curl up - to run away, to leave.
Zavodilovka is a den of thieves; prostitute's apartment, where she was robbed
there is a victim.
For all the fuel oil - to take revenge for all the insults. Tie tightly - move away from
criminal environment.
3. call - kill the dog guarding the object.
Zagartsovanny - a minor who violates the detention regime.
To extinguish - to escape from the violence of fellow inmates in the isolation ward.
To hide - to hide, to deceive.
To rob - to rob.
To rattle is to be caught red-handed.
To push in - to perform sexual intercourse; lie.
To move forward is to inject yourself with a drug.
To close up - to beat, kill; steal.
3. goat - let a friend down; place in any case.
3. according to the dream book - to rob those sleeping.
3. khatu - commit theft from an apartment.
Zadelye is a thieves' wedding.
Rear axle - female buttocks.
Back pocket - back pocket of trousers.
Zaimka is a punishment cell.
Enter - arrest.
3. not in your own house - get caught red-handed and be arrested or
convicted.
Bunnies - matches; keys; fire.
Injure - beat up a drunk and rob.
Zakat - put on handcuffs.
Behind a brick fence - execution.
To snitch - to inform, to snitch.
A lawyer is a thief who keeps the law recognized by other thieves.
Legal - good, agreed.
To squint - to pretend to be sick, to evade work in the zone or bar -
ke.
3. rations - deceive the food distributor in the colony and replenish the second portion -
tion.
A backstreet burglar is a touring robber.
Scroll - mark.
To close is to get caught.
To smoke is to use a drug.
Light up - hide.
Light a cigarette - close the door securely.
Smeared - under the supervision of police officers.
Putty is a bribe; an action performed to avert one's eyes.
To seduce - to put the victim to sleep with a drug, and then to rob or rape
force her.
Zamaniha - a woman who lures men to a secluded place where they
her accomplices beat her.
To mar - to hide securely; kill and bury the victim.
To rob - to rob a client by having sexual intercourse with him.
Freeze - hide, temporarily interrupt contact with accomplices.
Sweep - remove from the road; detain; to arrest.
Covered - agreed.
Castle - earrings.
Wrap it up - throw it away during investigation.
To marry - to provide any information.
To stir things up - to complicate things, to heat up the situation.
Stir - brew strong tea.
A stash is a hiding place, part of the loot.
To become arrogant is to become arrogant.
Behind the thread - abroad.
To hide - to hide.
A sniffy one is a dirty little thing.
Zapadlo - it’s impossible, the taboo of prison concepts.
Set fire - steal; betray.
3. zenki - be wary.
Get tired - forget.
Parking is a mistake.
To store is to see.
Stock up - look out for the police officer conducting surveillance.
Singing like a locomotive means going about business as a leader.
Sing - start talking, start making excuses.
Sealed - virgin.
Zapivokhin is an alcoholic.
Write down - kill.
Sign up as a muzhik - stop leading a life of crime and start working
thief.
Notes - matches.
Swim on a new one - get a new term.
To screw up - to kill.
To screw up a joint is to break the rules that one adheres to
majority.
To screw up a bear is to open a safe.
To steer is to tell a lie, to wag in a conversation.
Press - apply pressure.
To bully - to enter without permission.
To get dusty is to leave quickly.
Stained - stolen.
Beyond the river - far from home.
Sketch - remember the appearance.
Taxi - talk.
To bury yourself is to get caught red-handed.
To charge is to lie skillfully.
Be exposed and become an object of police surveillance.
Whistle - show something.
To detect - to notice.
To tar and shoot.
To get into trouble - to beat, poison, kill.
Dry up - shut up.
Button - unfasten the buttons of a coat when pickpocketing.
3. button - to involve in a cheating game.
Glaze - place glass in a window frame.
Stop - stop the victim and rob.
To get stuck is to see a stranger in time.
To get stuck is to get caught red-handed.
To catch - to strangle; caught in the act of a crime; kill.
Drought - a request to a civilian worker working in an industrial college.
Fall asleep - give someone away; betray.
Blackout - hit on the head so that the victim loses consciousness; kill,
hitting the head with a heavy object; hide the victim's corpse.
To erase a bug is to start a scandal.
Erase - destroy traces of a crime; persuade to change before
documents; persuade them to change their first and last names.
Sharpened old - marked cards.
Cover up - place in a punishment cell, temporary detention center.
Plug - distract the victim's attention during pickpocketing by pushing
her.
To steal - to commit pickpocketing.
Cover up - hide.
The backfill is a hiding place.
To be rude - not to repay borrowed money or things; don't give away the pro-
played.
Zakhar - a noble deed; deception of the ITU administration; out of the ordinary
outgoing case; focus.
A greedy eccentric is a person who pretends to be an expert.
To get sick - sit in a temporary detention center, a punishment cell.
Capture - get pregnant.
Hidden raspberries - a den of thieves or drug addicts, which has become famous
police officers.
Covered with feces - smeared with feces.
Slam - close; remain at the scene of the theft, unable to
you leave the room.
Entry - eating; consumption of a single dose of a drug.
3. rotten - a cunning approach.
3. from the north - ask unpleasant and dangerous questions.
Coming from the north means asking incriminating questions.
To seize - to catch; make dependent.
To bury - to persuade.
To moor - to catch.
Withered wheels are a hidden pistol.
Tweet - start giving evidence.
To suppress - to suppress, humiliate a cellmate.
Curious - unkempt, slob.
If you didn’t go into soya, you fell into the hands of justice.
To be stitched up is to be caught red-handed.
To make a fuss is to betray, to spill the beans during interrogation.
Star-grabbed is a smart, intelligent prisoner.
Stargrabber is a successful thief.
Links - glass in a window frame, dishes.
3. insert - expose the glass and enter the room.
The animal is a pistol; male penis; a man of non-Russian nationality
nality.
Ringing - conversation; thief's apprentice; language.
The bell ringer is a talker; dog; telephone.
The bell rings - the dog barks.
To call is to talk in vain; tell a lie; divulge thieves
secrets; spread nonsense rumors.
3. buzu - serve the sentence in full, the entire term.
3. into the apartment - crush the bug on the wall of the chamber.
The call is the end of the term.
Zgol is a mocker of novice thieves.
To snatch - to remove the clothes of a victim during a robbery.
Zebra - blinds on the cell windows.
Green conference - drinking in the forest; thieves' meeting.
Zelenogy - who returned without permission from exile to his former place of residence -
government
Greens are a group of thieves (suit) that does not recognize any norms
behavior.
Green prosecutor - spring.
Green is an aspiring thief.
Zelyator is a Tatar.
Zemko - carefully.
To land - to deprive a thieves' rights by decision of the meeting.
To ground is to offend.
Winter is a Finnish knife.
Zimagor is a tramp; member of the public.
Winter frames - glasses.
Snake - a thin, dexterous teenage thief who breaks into a room
through the window.
The snake is a painfully proud person; harmful man; openly donated
directed at the inmates of the ITU administration; thief.
3. according to the jackpot - constantly having his share in the crime committed
the group he belongs to.
Snake - bracelet; noose; resale of stolen goods; suburban train,
train, tram; a thin steel file or the hair of a pocket watch,
with which the cell grille is sawn.
Snake - rope; law; noose; train.
3. floats (drags) - the train approaches the platform.
Signs - money.
Knowing music means understanding thieves' jargon.
Heat is a wound.
Ash is bad luck.
Zolotar - jeweler..
The gold coin is a very unfortunate theft.
Gold is a gun.
The golden table is the place where the colony plays cards for fun.
Umbrella - entering a room through a hole in the ceiling.
The tooth is a spoon.
Zubarik, toothy, toothy, toothy, toothy prosecutor.
Toothball is a criminal investigation inspector.
Zyryanka is a Finnish knife.
Ivan is a tramp who hides his name; leader of a criminal gang,
hiding his last name, first name and patronymic. .
I. Ivanovich - prosecutor.
I. from the Volga is a daring hooligan.
I. toskun - stomach pain from bad food.
Needle - knife; syringe.
Iglovoy is a drug addict.
The accordion plays - the dog barks.
Playing the guitar means having sexual intercourse; breaking into a safe with
with the power of a special thieves' instrument - the guitar.
A game by eye - a game with marked cards.
The hitch game is a card game in which one is quietly lured into
sacrifice.
Playing on signals or on a telegraph is a game of cards when the accomplice
gives conventional signs.
Fold game is a game with a deck of cards folded in the desired position.
A game of luck is a game of cards without cheaters.
A game of three dice is a game of cards for another person's life. Lose
the thief must kill him.
Probe game - a game with marked cards on which the marks are probed
fingers.
A game for a point is a game when an act of courage is performed on the loser
lies. ,
Play the button accordion, piano, grand piano - fingerprinting.
Play the violin - saw the bars in the cell.
Playing number five is simulating mental illness.
Gaming - an active card player.
The player is a cheater.
Toy - pistol; male penis; roommate.
Toys are money won by a sharper.
Ideological - adhering to thieves' customs and traditions.
I. thief - observing all thieves' rules of behavior and traditions.
An idol is a person associated with the underworld.
Idols are teeth.
To go to the noble one is not to admit what you have done.
Go change your fate - escape from prison.
Go listen to the cuckoo - escape from prison.
Walking with a star means walking at night.
Dependent - performing auxiliary functions in a criminal group.
Izbach is a house burglar.
Cab driver - driver; convicted of rowdy behavior and constant torture of his wife.
Banish to the iron row - deprive of rights by decision of a meeting of thieves
"honest thief"
A fugitive came from the Volga.
Isenbrow bixa is a pretty girl or woman.
Treason is coming - excessive suspicion, the state after acceptance
drugs.
Icon - internal regulations at the ITU.
Caviar - rich.
Caviar messenger - having with him a significant amount for sale
drugs.
India is a punishment cell in a prison. A punishment cell in a colony.
Turkey is an elderly man who has a large sum of money with him and is looking for
success with prostitutes; district inspector.
Turkey - Indian tea.
An intellectual is convicted of a crime in office.
Ira - Criminal Code.
Irik is an old man.
Irichka is an old woman.
Look for a ferret - look for an object for sexual intercourse.
Seeker - not engaged in socially useful work, prone to
vagrancy.
The exception is the destruction of material assets during unrest in co-
lonies.
To get baked is to lose.
Confession is a frank conversation during interrogation; writing an explanatory note
notes.
Ishchan is an experienced thief.
Bondage is a duty.
Boar - bus.
Top cab, bottom cab - breaking into the ceiling or floor during theft.
Kabur - penetration into a room through a tunnel made.
Kazak is a supervisory controller at the ITU; leader of a criminal group.
Kazanyuk - revolver.
To glue the Cossack - to persuade the inspector of the correctional facility.
To show the suit is to make it clear which thieves’ group he belongs to.
live; show the stolen item to determine its value.
Cossack atas is the moment when a thing is taken away from the owner.
Treasury - prison clothes.
Cain is a buyer of stolen goods.
Like pouring on a rich person - beating someone severely.
Kalach is a large padlock.
Kalgan - head.
Camellia is a beautiful prostitute.
The stone is a mystery.
Kamsa is a minor involved in a criminal group.
Canary is a police car.
Drip - go; impersonate someone else.
K. in the trash - go to the dining room.
K. on the tail - to follow someone.
K. in the case - to be held accountable for a crime committed
transferred to ITU.
Canva - a note secretly transferred from places of detention; document.
Kandey - punishment cell, punishment cell.
Gimp - fight; arrest, detention; dispute.
Gimp - beat.
Rosin is a cheap thing passed off as expensive, a deception; pointless
talk; nonsense; low quality hashish passed off as high quality
ny.
Turn over a log - assist a pickpocket by turning
the victim in such a way that it is easier to rob him.
To turn around - to feign illness in order to avoid work in the hospital
cancer or zone.
Cabbage is money.
Pencil - crowbar; knife; sycophant
Karas is a rich client; victim, victim.
K. bushkaty - convicted of beating his wife.
K. conniving is a sexual sadist.
Guardhouses are eyes.
A picture is a beautiful thing; successful theft; genuine passport.
Pictures - playing cards; pornographic photographs; articles by Hugo
legal code under which the criminal was convicted.
To writhe - to experience pain or hardship.
Roll - gamble; beat.
Rolling balls means collecting damaging information.
Ride - pickpocket in public transport.
Send such and such a number of kisses to Katya - please send such and such
quantity of something.
Roll - go, go.
K. further - continue.
Roll the suit - try your luck.
Katyusha, Katyusha - codeine.
Kats are work boots.
Kachalova is a major controversy.
Pump water - go where they send you.
To swing - to be in prison.
Swinging in kitsch means being in prison, under investigation.
Swing - collectively discuss the convicted person.
Porridge - bag, bag; crowd; tea.
The sperm whale is a glutton.
Cranberry kvass - blood.
To let in kvass is to cause wounds.
Keldym - house, hostel; hangout.
Kemel - summer headdress.
Kent is a friend, a reliable accomplice.
Kesha - transfer to the isolation cell.
Keshar, keshir - transfer to an arrested person who has not yet been convicted.
Kivala is a people's assessor.
Nod your mane - agree, support someone's opinion.
To cheat - not to return what you borrowed, to steal.
Throw - rob.
K. to the bars - shout out the cell window: “Prison, give me a shout.”
Kidnyak - scam, trick, ploy; items transferred to the ITU zone through
main barrier.
Kipesh, kipish - clamor, noise, fight.
Brick - controller for supervision of convicts; cell door window;
diamond.
Kislyak - gloomy, gloomy facial expression.
Whaler is a bandit.
Kicha is an insulator.
Kichman - disciplinary isolation ward in the VTK; jail.
Kisher is a bag.
Gut is a glutton.
Guts - stolen or sold items.
The village is a prison.
Kishmish - drugs.
The masonry is a hiding place.
To glue - to steal, to persuade.
Enema - suggestion, separation; woman who is not sexually attractive
respect.
Stealing wedges means pretending to agree.
Squeeze a bug - turn off the light; do nothing, sleep.
Slander - tie.
Klyauznik - pencil.
Knatsat - observe, look.
To knock is to acknowledge someone's superiority.
Knotsat - treat.
The prince is a repeat offender.
Male is an active lesbian.
Forged - a marked deck of cards.
Pick - rob; hit.
K. skok - commit grand theft.
Picker - a woman masturbating; lesbian.
Picking an earring means picking a lock.
Goat - basket.
Goat - bicycle, moped; informer; foe; sold, cooperating
with the administration.
Kozloderka - room for ITU inspectors; the room where they are produced
searches of convicts; a place in the barracks where acts of sodomy between
do convicts.
Kozlyatnik is a teacher of thieves.
Kozyrny is an authoritative leader.
Goat section - this is the name given to the convicts' prevention section.
tics of offenses - SPP. All associations are made up of convicted activists.
Koknar, kuknar - crushed opium poppy heads, prepared
for preparing infusion; infusion of opium poppy; dried opium heads
poppy; generic name for drugs.
Cock - kill.
Sausage with eyes - herring.
Wheels - boots; drug pills.
Column - tell the truth.
The commissioner is a fraudster posing as a police officer.
Envelope - coffin; jail; camera; a bundle with things.
Horses - boots, work boots; hardworking convicts.
He abandoned his horse and died.
Koni-moni - fashionable shoes.
K. shuffled - he died.
Hoarding means getting scared.
Cont is a tool for opening safes.
Office - premises of the police department, city police department; hangout.
K. is on his tail - beware: there is a police officer nearby, a correctional facility inspector.
The ends are scissors.
Horse - a thread or twine used to pass notes or non-
large objects into another chamber.
The stable is a criminal group.
The helmsman is a cook at the ITU.
To feed is to be arrested.
Box - belly.
Box - steamer; passenger train.
Box - a method of shooting a deck of cards for a specific card; camera.
The bark beetle is a juvenile delinquent.
Bark beetle - VTK (educational labor colony).
The king is the owner of the brothel.
The shortest move is a game of matches.
Driving in the corridor means telling a lie, deceiving.
To mow - to simulate; pretend to be a simpleton.
Kosmach is underdeveloped, a fool.
Shaggy is the leader of a well-organized criminal group.
Bonecrower is a bad thief.
The crutch is a portion of bread.
Bone is a simulator.
The costume is a coffin.
A jamb is a bandage on the sleeve of a convicted activist.
A joint is a rolled-up cigarette filled with hashish.
The cat is a pimp.
Cutlets - money in bank packaging.
Boilers - clocks.
Kofeeza - coffee.
Kotsany - marked.
Kotsy - felt boots with cut off tops.
The fireman is an active homosexual.
The stalk is a sawn-off shotgun.
Kochet is a passive homosexual.
Kochka - oh. Sakhalin.
Kochumar - dozing.
A cat owner is a house thief who enters a room through a window.
Krantik is a death sentence passed by a gathering of thieves.
Kranty - detained or arrested; end of hope.
Little Red Riding Hood - former thief in law; gang of thieves, not
recognizing the “law” and violating the regime in the colony; convicted of sodomy
stvo; punk; a soldier demobilized from the Ministry of Internal Affairs troops;
member of a group of convicts.
Red Feather is a soldier of the internal troops.
Red goods are gold, precious things.
Collapse is a fallen person; accomplice who takes a significant
part of the loot.
Cross - sick leave, release from work; end, death.
To baptize is to judge.
The peasants are lice.
Krechet is a homosexual.
Crooked is a knife.
Scream - conversation.
Screamer is a hired arsonist.
Kritikesa is a taxi driver.
Krovnyashki - food products in ITU.
Blood is murder; money held by the victim.
K. went on her nose - a calculation with a beaten victim.
Crocodile - train.
Mole - making a tunnel.
Around, running - to pay off gambling debts.
To circle is to have sexual intercourse with several women at the same time.
K. recklessly - to become carried away by a woman, forgetting everything in the world.
Krutilovka is an operation to detain criminals.
Spin - dispose; interrogate; investigate.
Spinning eights means serving your sentence.
K. ox - to deceive.
K. cinema - think, remember.
Twisted - desperate, troubled.
Winged - a person suspected of homosexuality.
Rat - head of the temporary detention facility; underage prostitute; committing
petty thefts from convicts' bedside tables.
Rat house. - a petty thief who steals food from basements.
Covered, covered - a prison.
The roof is a hopeless situation; outer pocket; PKT - ca- room
dimensional type; bandit cover.
The hook is the penis.
Hook - warden, policeman, local inspector.
Ksiva - note, letter; identification document.
Kukareshnik is an isolation ward at the ITU.
Kuklam is a criminal living on someone else’s passport.
Corn is the male reproductive organ.
The corn grower is a homosexual.
Cuckoo is a convict who helps the administration of the penal colony; police guard
ner, watchman, sentry.
Kulik - revolver.
To cackle in your own way is to speak in thieves' jargon.
Kum is an operational worker at the ITU.
Merchant tea is a strong brew of tea.
Buy - deceive; steal.
The merchant's wife is a louse.
Courageous - rich, cheerful, intoxicating.
To curl is to hide.
The chicken coop is a sleeping place in the second tier.
Piece - controller-warrant officer; petty person.
A piece of map - a pack of Belomorkanal cigarettes.
The piecemaker is a petty thief.
A lone craftsman is a repeat offender.
The coachman is a thief.
Kucheryavka - good luck.
Laba - music.
Labaz - store.
Lav, lava, laveshki, lavev - money.
Lavier is embarrassed - there is a lot of money.
Laksha is a complete failure.
Lakshi - playing cards.
Lakshut - dominoes.
Lances are trousers.
Lantukhs are stolen things.
Lantseh - chain.
Lants - a set of beautiful clothes or things.
Paw - bribe; tea.
The paw is the share of the sharpie's assistant.
Paws are pincers.
Lapot - a tea bar; cloth.
L. to weave - to escape.
Laptsa is a face.
Noodles - exchange; watch strap or chain; criminal case.
Flippers are legs.
Swallow is a prostitute.
Lachman - forgiveness of gambling debt.
Swan is drunk.
Swan-dweller, swan-dweller - stealing from drunks.
Easy - accessible woman.
Ice is sugar.
Lepa, flatbread, molding - shirt; costume.
L. broken - jacket and trousers from different suits.
Lepen - jacket.
Sculpted, sculpted - a medical worker at the ITU.
To sculpt is to tell a lie.
L. hunchback - to deceive.
L. hunchbacked to the wall - impersonate someone else; play another card
that one.
Lekha is a victim who came from a rural area.
Bream - drunk; cunning.
Throwing a bream means robbing a drunk.
To crush a bream means to give in to the demands of the thieves.
Liver - observation; warning about the danger when committing a crime
dulling; simpleton; liver.
Lemoning means not returning what you have lost.
Linkin is a fake document.
Linden is a fake.
Lyra - guitar.
Leaves are playing cards.
Literka is the thief's servant.
Lishak - a fugitive from a settlement or exile; deprivation of a thief's rights by decision
gatherings.
Catching a session is spying on a woman.
Lozhkar is a cook at the ITU.
A spoonwasher is a convict who works in a dishwasher.
To cheat is to steal.
Break - pull out; check.
L. ksivy - check documents.
L. problems - argue.
L. elms - break the spine.
To break is to run.
Break in - run, go on watch.
Break in - leave.
Breaking is a scam; verification of documents.
Belted with a crowbar - a special suit (caste), close to lawlessness.
Aches - beatings, beatings.
The breaker is a scammer.
Loparya - summer shoes.
Sucker - gape; victim.
Shaggy theft is rape.
Shaggy - ragamuffin; district inspector.
Lokhmach is a vigilante, an activist of the ITU.
Horses are boots.
Lunatic is a lone robber.
People are thieves.
L. boundless are hooligans.
Lyagavka - criminal investigation.
To kick, to kick - to betray accomplices, to inform on someone.
I will be a kicker - the oath of criminals.
Lyalka is a woman of easy virtue.
Maz is the leader of the gang.
Maza - intercession; support; mutual responsibility.
To smear - to hit; give a bribe.
Mazurik is a pickpocket.
Fuel oil - fat, oil; ink for tattooing.
Mast is a “skilled” fraudster; order.
Do not apply ointment - do not get into unpleasant situations.
Maidan - carriage, train, station, platform; a piece of cloth spread out for
card games; a hangout where scammers gather; suitcase, suitcase.
Maidannik, Maidannik - a thief operating on trains and at stations; convict
day, secretly selling drugs and alcohol.
Maidanut - to commit theft at a station or on a train.
Milo is a safety razor blade.
Makar is an unknown criminal.
Makara - bread.
Maklak, maklan - buyer of graded goods.
Broker - fake certificates, checks, rarely - money; accomplice of speculators
the one who increases the price of the product.
To visit Macli - to make a deal; exchange opinions.
Maklya is a convict who even exchanges his clothes for drugs.
To muck - to exchange something.
Dunk - suffocate in water, drown.
Maxim - good-natured; chamber jester.
Malina - a group of thieves of the same "profession"; hangout.
M. is separated - the stash is open.
Malyga, smalla - a person of short stature.
The boy is the key.
Boys are master keys; fingers.
Baby is a thief adopted into a family of thieves and from that moment on I consider
a thief in law.
Mara is a woman of easy virtue.
Marafet - external gloss; cocaine.
Marviher is an incorrigible thief.
Brand - handkerchief; bus; tram; trolleybus.
Marcephalus - conflict.
Marshal is a foreman in a colony.
The route is a bag of groceries from the fugitive.
Butterflies are cartridges.
Masol - military; thin.
Oiler - overcoat.
Master is a sharper.
Master - skillfully forging signatures; skilled thief
enjoying authority in his community.
Master - inflict a knife wound.
Mastevy is a passive homosexual among minors.
To tinker, to tinker - to do.
Mastyrka - causing harm to oneself in order to avoid work;
cigarette stuffed with hashish.
Lighthouse - a signal of danger; flashlight; safe apartment.
Furniture - accomplices of the sharper, taking part in the game to increase
number of partners; precious things.
The bear is fireproof and the closet and safe.
Take M. with a lasso - take out a fireproof safe.
Safecracker is a safecracker.
Melody - ROVD-GOVD.
To hesitate is to be afraid.
Cop, mentyaga, mentyara, broom - policeman; controller in the zone; above-
spectator in the colony.
Menta - back.
Black month - anus.
Throw - yes; playing cards; deceive.
M. launches - use a specially prepared deck of cards.
Broom - tongue.
Subway - undermining.
The bag is an insulator, a solitary cell.
Blink - say, inform.
Grave - temporary detention facility; overnight stay; keeping secrets; soup in prison.
Mozol is a collective farmer.
Wet is dangerous.
Wet business, wetness, wetness - murder associated with bloodshed.
Wet grant - robbery with bloodshed.
Prayer - report; lecture; instructions from the senior guard before leaving
convicts from the zone.
Milk is money.
Mosol is a thin man; bone.
A scooter is a penis with a ring or
balloons.
Motya is a share of stolen goods.
Diuretic is a knife.
To wet - to beat; kill.
M. horns - to serve a sentence.
Moshnya is a briefcase.
The man is a working prisoner who does not cooperate with the administration.
To know music is to understand thieves' jargon.
A musician who knows thieves' jargon,
Mukir is a collective farmer.
Ant is a pickpocket.
Garbage is a police officer.
Colored garbage - ensign; military serviceman; convicted person
SPP.
Mutilo, mutilovka - an urgent conflict.
To stir up trouble is to create a nervous, tense atmosphere.
Whorl - beating.
Muddy is a suspicious person.
Mud - a false accusation; not true.
A fly is a bullet.
On white - go by boat.
To hell - together.
To beat - to give an idea.
To fill a picture (kartak) - to apply a tattoo.
To get acquainted - to make useful acquaintances; learn to talk
in thieves' jargon.
To sell for cronyism - to sell, admitting that the item is stolen.
To smear is to pull a wallet out of your pocket.
The heel is dirty - an address where you can buy drugs.
The thief is an accomplice.
Set of bones - hand.
A ragged fraer is a man who knows the customs of thieves, but does not
proper to thieves.
A tip, a tattoo - an indication of the selected object of the crime.
To cheat is to steal.
Nadybat - discover, look after.
N. to the point - to choose an object to steal.
For the winter - a cheating game of cards in which the victim is drawn into.
Punish - put on notice; rob.
N. blindly - let it slip during interrogation.
To crush - to suppress a person in order to subjugate him.
N. cart - write a complaint to the prosecutor.
On reels it is too lively.
The cape is a padlock.
A cape is a knife with a switch blade.
Nakit - prison "aristocracy".
Invoices are cards specially selected by the sharper.
Tattoo - choosing an object to steal; tattoo; inconspicuous marking of needles
loy on a playing card.
To sit on the cross means to be freed from work by receiving sick leave.
On kukan - under supervision.
To the left is illegal; take life.
Muzzle - administrative supervision; visor on the window of a temporary detention facility or cell;
deprivation or loss of rights; cap with a large visor.
Reel - determine the term of punishment; contract a sexually transmitted disease
vaniyam.
Paraffin - slander.
To weave bast shoes is to escape from guards.
Weaving ropes means saying too much during interrogation.
To show off - to deceive, to confuse.
Pull wires - establish contact with criminals who are
I'm free.
Stepping on the tail means offending.
Put on your ears - rob; turn everything over.
Nahal - trolleybus.
Nakhalovka is an illegal accusation of an innocent person.
For free - participation in the division without participation in the case.
On character -
Today, Zonov’s phrases can often be heard everywhere: among young people who have nothing to do with the criminal world, from the lips of young mothers and elderly people, as well as from teenagers and even young children.
Why is thieves' jargon so popular now?
The reason that Zonov’s phrases are so popular in everyday life today is the romanticization of prison life. We have to thank for this the thieves' chanson, movies and books that show beautiful and strong personalities belonging to the criminal environment. It is in fiction and cinematographic creations that realism in depicting life in prison or after release flourishes. Therefore, Zonov’s phrases fit into the works quite organically.
Why do young people use jargon in their speech?
There are several reasons why young people actively use Zonov’s phrases in their speech.
- Youthful nihilism, which opposes “correct speech,” forces teenagers to talk in a way that irritates adults.
- The desire to appear stronger than one actually is, “cooler” than one’s peers, pushes one to “use a hairdryer” instead of the generally accepted and understandable speech.
- Deliberate rudeness in behavior and, naturally, in conversations is a way to hide your youthful shyness and self-doubt from prying eyes. For example, with the thieves’ phrase “You will answer for the market!” the young man warns not to lie to him, otherwise the one who lies will be severely punished. It is likely that the boy will not be able to do anything for lying. But the phrase itself seems to elevate him above the one to whom it is addressed.
- A unique mechanism of protection from unpleasant life situations is the replacement of generally accepted words with jargon. For example, if instead of the phrase “a place for detainees to stay in a police station” one uses the funny jargon “monkey house,” then this partially removes the tragedy of what is happening and distracts from the cruel reality. The insult of a “radish” (a bad person) does not sound offensive at all, but even to some extent ironic. It is much more pleasant than comparison with some animals or even waste products.
About where prison vocabulary came from
The thieves' environment required a “coded” language. After all, it was not always possible to transmit messages confidentially. Using a special language that is understandable only to initiates, it is possible, for example, to agree on the place and time of the crime being prepared, the number of participants, and convey some important details.
But creating a completely new language from scratch is quite a painstaking and complex task. Therefore, we found the most affordable option. They used the argot of traveling traders, who were then called ofen, as the basis for their language. This is where the name of thieves' jargon comes from. The phrase “Speaking the language of thieves” sounds: “To talk about a hairdryer.”
The dictionary of criminal slang includes many words from Yiddish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, English and other languages.
Do creative people need to learn thieves' jargon?
Of course, this is not at all necessary. Many people have lived their lives quite happily without knowing a single word from the criminal dictionary. But for writers, journalists, screenwriters, it is simply necessary to know, at least superficially, some of the frequently used vocabulary of asocial elements. Otherwise, how to recreate realistic pictures of everyday life?
You can imagine for a moment this episode filmed in the film: two guys decided to take a tape recorder out of the car. One of them says to his partner: “You will remain standing under the tree and will make sure that no one prevents me from accomplishing my plan. If something happens, signal the danger!”
After that, he set about implementing the plan. And suddenly the owner himself comes out of the entrance! Then the one who was left to watch shouts to the second: “Comrade thief, danger! We need to run away urgently!”
The situation is understandable, but the irony lies in the absurdity of the presentation of the event, since criminals would never speak so long and correctly. Most likely, the picture should look like this.
One of the thieves says to the second: “I went to work, and you remain on watch!” Briefly and clearly. And when the owner of the car appeared, the man standing on the skiff shouted just one word: “Atas!” This will be enough to inform about approaching danger.
Law enforcement and criminal jargon
Well, these people are simply nowhere without knowledge of criminal vocabulary. Investigators, taking statements from witnesses, record what the latter heard. To understand what was discussed between the accomplices, you need to be well versed in the argot of criminal elements.
“Vaska says to the bald man with whom he sat down in the kitchen to drink: “Tomorrow we’ll go to the ears. I have one sweet pepper in mind. Don't take feathers - we don't need wet stuff! Fatty can’t say anything - he gives up, snitches on everyone... If we fail, you’ll answer for the market!”
This speech is translated as follows: “Tomorrow we will go on a robbery. I have a rich man in mind. Don't take knives - we don't need murder! Don’t say anything to Fat, he’s completely gone bad, I think he’s reporting everyone to the authorities... If we’re caught red-handed at the crime scene, you, as the one who spilled the beans about the plans, will be punished!”
By the way, for law enforcement officials, studying a dictionary of jargon is mandatory. And in films about “cops” (police officers) and “operas” (operatives), such episodes often occur.
Some words from the criminals' dictionary
- Authority is a thief in law, a respected figure in the criminal world.
- Alberka - syringe for injections.
- Altushki, bashli, bobuli, cabbage - money.
- Poster - fat face.
- Scourge is a weak-willed person who has become dependent on stronger ones.
- Babai is an elderly man.
- The huckster is a speculator.
- Babets is an old aunt.
- Babich - shirt.
- Balagas - sugar.
- Brothers are eyes.
- Brod - street.
- Vaidon - scream.
- Vayer - newspaper.
- Vaksa - vodka.
- Jug - head.
- Chaffinch is a cowardly person.
- Rat, ratter - stealing little things from his cellmates.
- To show off is to peek.
- A puddle is a sheet.
- To twist the moon is to deceive.
- Butterflies are cartridges.
- A washer is someone who steals from drunks.
- Radish is a bad person.
- Bows, crabs, wings - hands.
- Pheasant is a deception.
- Shement - quickly.
- The skins are stolen.
Several letters came with a request to cover the topic of thieves' jargon - the so-called feni. There was even a letter from a reader of the “Life and Psychology of Prison” mailing list, who, after reading a fragment of Alexei Pavlov’s story “It Should Have Been Wrong,” wrote that the only thing he understood was that he understood almost nothing.
The topic is large, and it would seem that more than one issue could be devoted to it. But when I sat down to write, I realized that I didn’t know much. That is, I seem to be able to navigate and use it if necessary, but...
If laws, concepts, traditions, facts, legends, stories are discussed again and again in the prison hut, the cycle of people and events does not stop either day or night, then they are simply taking advantage of them. They speak it, but not about it. Just like with “normal”, everyday communication, we don’t think about how and with what words this is done.
Therefore, for the first time since the launch of mailing lists, I decided to ask what theorists think about the phenomenon of thieves' argot, as an expression of the criminal-prison subculture (what we are talking about, it turns out, is called exactly that by science). As it turned out, there are many dictionaries of thieves’ argot, including online ones, and they have their own specialists.
The next issue will be devoted, I think, to prisons abroad - in particular in Africa - there is an interesting material from one of the readers. And then we’ll talk about how, for example, to light a cigarette from an outlet, which I’ve already been asked to do several times. The “Life and Psychology of Prison” mailing list has published letters from Sergei Parajanov’s zone and will soon release previously unpublished material about death row.
The issue turned out to be somewhat long, but still, a little more of your attention - I will repeat the information that I already gave in the “View from Prison” newsletter. Since the audience does not overlap completely, I apologize to those who have already seen this:
I will introduce you to my new endeavor - a series of newsletters, which I am starting with the topic "Life. Love. Laughter" and which will be united under a common name "Intensive preparation course for freedom". Their development should lead to a series of practical trainings and schools through which I want to spread ideas and methods that seek a way out through my being and lead a person to self-awareness. AWARENESS.
Formally, they will not interfere with existing mailing lists - I am just announcing them to you, following my promises that I made before. They are conceived for a specific period and are intended to gather and prepare an interested audience.
The previous topics of the “prison” cycle will continue to be published with the same frequency and intensity and will continue to expand - the site is already starting to be created - now it has a complete archive of my mailings - already, as it turns out, more than 50. I didn’t notice when ...
With these two areas of my activity, I pay tribute to two directions of human development - external and internal. Duty to society and duty to one's Divine nature.
Here I would like to apologize to everyone who ordered Alexey Pavlov’s book “It Shouldn’t Have Been So” - I promised everyone in my response letters to contact them soon, but I still haven’t. I'll ask you to be patient a little longer - I have the books, but I didn't have the opportunity. This is due to what has been happening in Ukraine lately.
I've only been back from Kyiv a few days ago. What is happening there, as throughout Ukraine, is simply incredible. I am sure that none of the countries of the former Soviet Union has ever experienced anything like this, and I don’t know, as well as, probably, the world...
The whole country rose up - and in peace, without violence. And this is incredibly difficult. If you are forced to play with a sharper, then no appeals to conscience, or the law, including the law of thieves, are useless. And starting a fight, even if you are stronger, is also wrong... It seems that there is only one way out - do not sit down and play with a scammer. But in this case there was no choice.
The atmosphere in the country, and especially in Kyiv, and especially on the Maidan, is simply unique. People walk with enlightened faces, with smiles, dance, hug - despite the constant threat of provocations, frost, snow, rain, deprivation. Not a single drunk, not a single fight. Now no one will leave without victory. It's just beautiful. This is truly the birth of a nation.
Some readers accused me of sympathizing with the criminal world due to the fact that I once mentioned that I supposedly liked the “criminal” candidate for president of Ukraine more. This is not so - I didn’t like both of them, and many in Ukraine also voted - not “for” one of them, but rather against the other, “criminal” one. But what happened during the elections left me and millions of other Ukrainian citizens with no choice. It was simply a sabbath of lawlessness and dishonor. In thieves' language - chaos. And the people rose up against the fact that they were being taken for suckers. And there is no place for compromise here. What kind of compromise can there be with a sharpie?
Lawlessness, according to concepts, is punishable by lawlessness. But this is according to thieves' standards. According to Christian “concepts”, any lawlessness must first be responded with love, and only then with action. This is what the people of Ukraine are doing now. And sets a great example for others. And I am happy that I live here and now.
Dictionary
At the end of the dictionary, the correspondence of the articles of the criminal codes of the former Soviet republics is stated (meaning the articles mentioned in the books of the series “Criminal Russia. Prisons and Camps”, issues 1-3) with the articles of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR of 1961.
The last of the documentary materials included in the collections dates back to 1993. This dictionary does not indicate the correspondence of the articles of the “old” and “new” criminal codes of Russia.
Authority
(t) - a representative of the highest group in the informal hierarchy of prisoners (see Blatnoy, thief in law). In prison jargon, the word is usually used in the plural: "authorities."
The informal order operating in the community of prisoners is extremely authoritarian in nature, therefore the real situation that develops in the shadow life of an ITU, a pre-trial detention center or part of them (cell, PKT, punishment cell, etc.) is determined by the personal characteristics of the authorities in power and the presence of connections of this institution with influential authorities in the wild or in other correctional institutions, as well as the tactics followed by local employees of the operational services. See also correct concepts, correct zone, prison law, dismantling, thieves, thieves.
It should be noted that in the general spoken Russian language, the word authority is more often used in a meaning close to the English influence (influence), and is contrasted in meaning to the word “power”, but does not complement it. Power exists in the space of formal structures, influencing people through a system of statuses, prestige, positions, and sanctions. They submit to authority voluntarily, sometimes sacrificing their own benefits and interests.
Authoritative
(t) - a prisoner who has a high status in one of two groups (suits) of the informal hierarchy of prisoners: thieves and muzhiks. Not used in relation to representatives of such informal groups as goats, devils, omitted ones, etc.
Activist
(c) - a prisoner who openly cooperates with the administration of the correctional facility, who has joined sections, “amateur organizations of convicts.” According to ZhR: “unlike the informer collaborating with the opera, the activist is an open collaborator, actively participating in labor competition, in propaganda work, etc.” Given the external similarity of the definitions of this term for the Gulag of the 30s-50s and the correctional labor system of the 60s-80s, it should be taken into account that during the period described by ZhR, activists did not, as they do now, constitute a separate group in the informal hierarchy of prisoners (see goat).
Prisoner
(t) - 1) thief in law, 2) criminal, 3) respected, authoritative prisoner.
Athlete
(t) - see fighter.
Cormorant
(t) - a hooligan (sometimes a person convicted under Article 206 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The word has a contemptuous connotation; It is not customary to call authoritative, respected prisoners, even those convicted of hooliganism, cormorants.
Mess
- disorder in the area (or in the cell). A mess differs from lawlessness in that lawlessness is a conscious violation by the administration or false thieves of those norms and rules that are recognized and supported by the other part of the zone (or cell), while a mess is the absence of any rules and general licentiousness, as a result of which people also suffer People.
Violation of the rules and causing, on the part of others, harm to a prisoner in unclear circumstances, when the victim himself does not offer decisive resistance and then does not seek justice, is called a gimp.
Huckster
- speculator. Convicted of speculation or selling tea, cigarettes, “wheels” in the zone.
White Swan
(t, s) is the unofficial name for prison-type institutions found in eight regional forest camp administrations. The official name of the White Swan is EPKT (see below). The First White Swan (Usolskoe forestry department, Northern Urals) is sometimes called the all-Union BUR, because “negatively minded convicts” from various regions of the USSR were collected here.
The exact origin of the name White Swan is unknown. According to one version, the first prison of this type was built on the site where there was a forest clearing with the same name (Solikamsk).
Beskovoinnik (raskovoinnik) - a prisoner who has received the right to free movement (within certain limits) outside the zone, as well as to and from work.
Mayhem
(t) - lack of order, arbitrariness, lawlessness.
Lawlessness of thieves, wool
- open violent violation of prison law by thieves or wool in relation to other prisoners.
Cop lawlessness - lawlessness, extreme cruelty, sadism towards prisoners on the part of the colony administration or other officials, for example: a prosecutor, an inspector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, etc. A proverb characterizing this type of lawlessness: “The law is the taiga, the bear is the prosecutor.”
Boundless
(t) - lawless, from the point of view of the norms and rules of prison law.
Lawless man
(t) - more often - a prisoner, less often - an employee of a correctional facility, committing lawlessness, arbitrariness.
Beach
- the same as the devil or the chushkan - a weak-willed person who always becomes dependent on others and quickly declines. He cannot lead any line of his own and usually serves others.
Thieves
(t) - a representative of the highest status group in the informal hierarchy of prisoners. Blatnoy is usually a professional criminal. In addition, he must recognize prison law, follow the correct concepts, have a “clean” past, and not work in the zone. Any, even casual, relationship to the structures of power, its political institutions (for example, membership in a party or Komsomol) forever closes the path to the “thieves’ world” for a criminal, no matter how high a criminal qualification he subsequently acquires. In the 30-50s, the path to thieves was closed to those who served in the army, who at least once went to work in the zone. Now the requirements for a candidate for thieves are softer. Even soldier service in the internal troops is not always considered a discreditable episode in a biography. And in some zones, thieves can go to work if it is not the work of a foreman, orderly, etc., that is, if it does not give him at least some kind of official power over the rest of the prisoners. Those who worked in the service sector in freedom, that is, were waiters or taxi drivers, cannot become thieves either. There are many other requirements for applicants for the status of a criminal. Each zone may have its own special requirements.
Blatnye
- this is the real power in the correctional facility, the power that fights with the official power, that is, with the administration of the zone. In addition to power, thieves have privileges - the right not to work, the right to keep whatever they deem necessary from the common fund. The thieves also have responsibilities. The correct thieves are obliged to ensure that the zone is warmed up, that is, it receives food, tea, tobacco, vodka, drugs, and clothing through illegal means. He is also obliged to resolve disputes that arise between other prisoners, and generally not allow any clashes between them, to ensure that no one is unfairly punished, offended, or deprived. All this does not mean, of course, that for the criminal the correct order in the zone is more important than personal benefits. Often his concern for the lads is only an excuse to ensure better living conditions for himself in the zone. But there are also enough zones where thieves spend most of their time in punishment cells, PKT, and indoors, so that the gang can live peacefully and not go hungry.
Functionally, the thieves caste has played a completely different role since the early 60s than in the 30s-50s. The criminal world at that time was separated from the bulk of prisoners and lived according to its own laws, considering the rest of the camp population as an alien part to itself, for which completely different rules applied. By the end of the 50s, the thieves essentially lost their power in the Gulag; in the early 60s, their remnants were separated from ordinary prisoners. Subsequently, a new generation of thieves arose, who are informal leaders of prisoners, represent the interests of the bulk of them and are organically included in the prison community.
There is reason to believe that another transformation is currently taking place in the prison subculture, which may lead to the emergence of a group of informal leaders of a new type. However, this issue requires serious study.
The thieves themselves prefer to use various euphemisms and synonyms for the word "blatnoy", calling themselves authorities, prisoners, tramps, tramps, swindlers, etc. Old synonyms - zhigans, people, godfathers, etc., known from classical literature about the Gulag, are used much less frequently. See also prison law, thieves' law, thief, suit.
The group of thieves has its own hierarchy. In order from higher status to lower: thieves in law, brothers-in-law, authoritative thieves, boys, thieves, fighters. Other names may be used in some regions. For example, those with criminals are called fraers, simple criminals are called trump fraers. Names associated with the performance of certain functions are also used, for example: corner, looking, support, etc.
Fighter
(t) - a prisoner from the circle of thieves, executing their orders to apply certain sanctions (usually violent) to other prisoners, decisions of the gang to punish (up to murder) a prisoner or an employee of the correctional facility. During a riot or uprising, the fighters are an armed group of prisoners under the command of a prisoner leader or leaders. Other names used for fighters are athletes, gladiators. A fighter may be a member of the thieves caste, but he does not enjoy the respect of other prisoners and does not have the right to vote on the gangway.
Tramp
(t) - 1) thieves, 2) A prisoner who recognizes prison law, a person with correct concepts.
Bratva
(t) - 1) thieves.
2) Prisoners who accept prison law.
3) Community of prisoners, a local group of prisoners, for example, everyone who is in a given cell.
Tramp
(t) - the same as a tramp.
UR
(t) - a high-security barracks, a room in which prisoners are locked up (sometimes in cells). Essentially, it is an internal prison of the camp, where violators of discipline, “refusers” of work, etc. are placed. BUR arose back in the 20s, and was replaced by PKT in the early 60s. However, prisoners still often call PKT BUR.
Goby
- cigarette butt. When one prisoner asks another to “Stop smoking,” the ethics of right concepts dictate that the request be complied with.
Watch
(o) - 1) premises for on-duty supervisory personnel on the territory of the penitentiary complex.
2) Premises for correctional facility workers and internal troops guarding the colony, usually located in close proximity to the entry and exit gates for vehicles.
Vertukhay
- the same as the dubak, the navel - the overseer. The word has been preserved since ancient times: it is known from descriptions of Stalin’s camps.
Adult
- adult zone. “Move to adulthood” - move from a juvenile prison or cell to an adult zone or cell.
Get an apartment
(t, s) - that is, take on another unsolved burglary.
Break in
- give information about a person or hidden objects.
Get smashed
- 1. Take a drug. 2. To be caught red-handed (B).
Freestyle, freestyle
(t) - civilian employees of the colony who do not undergo certification and do not have a military rank (teachers, foremen, drivers). Volnyashki are also called those who, not being employees of the colony, visit it officially on various business (suppliers, loaders, book stall sellers, etc.). For prisoners, freemen often act as intermediaries in various types of commercial matters (exchange, purchase, sale), which are illegal or semi-legal in nature. Illegal (uncensored) letters, money transfers, etc. are usually sent and received through freemen.
Thief, thief in law
(t) - the elite of the criminal and prison world, its leaders, a kind of initiates. Thieves occupy the highest position in the informal hierarchy of prisoners. In some respects (norms, conflict resolution mechanisms, rituals operating in this community) thieves in law are somewhat reminiscent of the Sicilian mafia. However, there are also fundamental differences. The thieves, who brought their traditions from pre-revolutionary Russia to the criminal world of the USSR, led a demonstrably asocial lifestyle - they did not work, did not start families, had bright external attributes, had to serve more than one term in prison, etc. Their corporation has always been international, the most important decisions were made not individually, but at a meeting of thieves, there was a ban on any contact between thieves and law enforcement officials.
In the 40-50s, the number of thieves reached ten (possibly more) thousand people, and together with their entourage ("thieves") - 40-50 thousand people. By the end of the 50s - early 60s, the corporation practically ceased to exist. But unexpectedly it was revived in the early 80s, when the number of thieves in law, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, reached 500-600 people. However, now there have been some changes in the rules and laws of the thieves in law corporation. Many of the prohibitions discussed above have disappeared, in particular, the ban on contacts with employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In addition, clans and groups formed along national lines began to appear (for example, the Chechen group). However, the Russian criminal world, much more successful than civilized business, which is introducing itself into the life of the new Russian and Western societies, remains largely unknown and incomprehensible to them.
Thieves' orders
(t) is usually a new rule created as a result of a dispute between prisoners or in response to a new action by prison authorities. The unwritten prison law continues to be constantly drawn up from orders.
Thieves' law
(t) - a set of unwritten rules, norms, mandatory for thieves. In the 20s - 50s, the thieves' law with its correct concepts did not apply to the entire mass of prisoners, remaining a purely corporate way of organizing life. The whole world, according to the law of thieves, was divided into friends and strangers, and strangers had only the only value that their own could exist and survive at their expense.
Since the beginning of the 60s, the thieves' law, gradually being modified, has captured the bulk of prisoners within its scope of action (see prison law). Therefore, one should not extend the ideas about thieves and thieves, emerging from the classical literature about the Gulag of the 30-50s (V. Shalamov, A. Solzhenitsyn, etc.), to a later time.
VTK
(o) - educational labor colony. This is a camp-type correctional facility for minors (from 14 to 18, sometimes up to 20 years old) offenders. They usually contain from 300 to 700 teenagers. On the territory of the VTK there are the same zones and functional premises as in the colony for adults (see ITK), including a room for disciplinary punishment - DIZO (disciplinary isolation ward).
According to the law, living conditions in the VTK are much better than in correctional institutions for adults. However, departments for minors in pre-trial detention centers and the military and technical complexes themselves are the most disadvantaged places from the point of view of ensuring basic human rights. Minors are not provided with protection of life, health, and personal dignity. Torture, bullying, torture, rape are an everyday reality in the VTK. Moreover, all this happens with the knowledge and even with the support of the teacher, who uses such “collective pedagogy” to maintain order, ensure the necessary indicators, and fulfill the production plan. The VTK has the highest proportion of abused people (i.e., raped and constantly used as a sexual object), which in the 70-80s reached 30% in some regions. In the 90s, the number of those admitted to the military technical complex began to decrease noticeably. In some regions, “innovations” are also noted: now teenagers are released into freedom, and when they come to the pre-trial detention center, they already know their “place” and immediately announce their status.
Since January 1, 1997, VTCs have been renamed into VK (educational colonies).
Redeem
- find, track, expose someone (for example, an informer) in a zone or cell.
Break out
- break out of the cell under the protection of the administration and demand transfer to another.
Vyšak
(t) - capital punishment (execution); At present, the death penalty is officially called an “exceptional measure of punishment” (the name of the death penalty in one of the first Soviet documents regulating its use is “an exceptional measure of social protection”).
Glavpetukh
(t) - informal leader in the caste of the lowered. He is the authorized representative of the omitted in contacts with the leaders of other informal groups, solves all problems that arise in the group of omitted, and participates in resolving controversial issues between the omitted and other suits. Sometimes his functions are performed by two informal leaders - dad and mom.
Gladiator
- the same as a bull, a fighter, an athlete, a tank driver - a strong man who serves as an instrument for executing the plans and orders of the thieves to whom he is committed.
GOVD
- city department of internal affairs.
Blue
(t) - the same as the rooster, lowered. See also suits.
Gopnik
- Forcibly taking something from another person.
GOP stop
- street robbery.
Greve
- money and products illegally used to support prisoners.
GUIN
- Main Directorate for the Execution of Punishments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The department in charge of most penitentiary institutions in Russia. GUIN manages penitentiary institutions through regional departments of correctional institutions. In the republics they are formed under the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs, in regions and territories under the corresponding Internal Affairs Directorates. Regional departments are now most often called UIN (Department for the Execution of Punishments), less often - OID under the Internal Affairs Directorate (or Ministry of Internal Affairs in the republics). The former name of the regional departments was SID and SR (Service for Correctional Affairs and Social Rehabilitation). The number of penitentiary institutions in the regions ranges from 10 to 50.
Former names of GUIN:
GULAG
- Main Directorate of Camps (30-50s).
GUITC
- Main Directorate of Correctional Labor Colonies (late 50s).
GUITU
- Main Directorate of Correctional Labor Institutions (early 60s - mid 80s).
GUID
- Main Directorate for Correctional Affairs (until the end of the 80s).
GULAG
- 1) Main Directorate of Camps. The name of the Soviet concentration camp system, which appeared back in 1930. 2) The general name of the Soviet system of mass extermination of people and suppression of all dissent (sometimes - a similar system in other totalitarian countries); the word became international after the publication in the West of A. Solzhenitsyn’s book “The Gulag Archipelago”. 3) The name used by journalists and human rights activists for the modern penitentiary system of the countries of the former USSR, which has largely retained the features of the Gulag, despite a number of significant changes that have occurred since Stalin’s times, and the repeated change of signs (see GUIN).
GUITU
(o) - see GUIN.
GULITU
(o) - main department of forestry technical institutions. A structural unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR (since 1992 - the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation), which was in charge of the management of forestry ITU - ULITU. Unlike the regional departments of GUITU, forest departments reported directly to GULIT (“central subordination” departments). Then GULITU was renamed “Spetsles of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation”. Since 1995, the management of forest ITUs became a department of the GUIN, and the disbandment of ULITU began. As of January 1, 1998, there were 122 forest correctional centers with a total prison population of 46.6 thousand people.
DCK
- children's educational colony. (see "Bark beetle", VTK).
Deza
- misinformation deliberately transmitted instead of truthful information.
DIZO
(o) - disciplinary detention center. A cell for holding violators of the detention regime in the VTK. It differs from the punishment cell in a more lenient regime of detention. For example, the maximum term of a pre-trial detention center is ten days (in a pre-trial detention center - fifteen). From July 1, 1997, the maximum sentence for a pretrial detention center was reduced to 7 days.
Disbats are disciplinary battalions. Special military units where, by court decision, military personnel who have committed minor crimes are sent (for a period of up to three years). These are closed penitentiary institutions.
DK
(c) - children's colony.
Burglar
(t) - apartment burglar.
DPNK
(o) - assistant on duty to the head of the colony. ITK employee, an officer who directly monitors the situation in a specific ITK.
DPNSI
(o) - assistant on duty to the head of the pre-trial detention center (SIZO). A position similar to that of the DPNK.
DTK
(o) - children's labor colony. In the 30-50s - a camp for juvenile delinquents.
Fool
(t) - 1) A person under investigation sent for a psychiatric examination.
2) A person under investigation who has undergone a psychiatric examination and is declared insane at the time of committing the crime (confessed fools, recognized).
3) A prisoner recognized as mentally ill after the appropriate conclusion of a commission of psychiatrists.
Dushnyak
(r) - creation of especially unbearable conditions for one, several prisoners or for the entire colony in order to achieve a change in the behavior of prisoners. Dushnyak can be a cop type (created by the administration) or a prisoner type (in relation to one prisoner or a group of prisoners).
EPKT
(o) - a single chamber-type room. Until July 1, 1997, the legislation provided only for PKT - structural units of specific correctional institutions, and the internal prison of the colony. EPKT is a structural subdivision not of a separate correctional institution, but of a regional department for the execution of punishments. The first EPKT was created in 1980 in Solikamsk (Usolskoye ULITU) as an experiment on the basis of the TPP (transit and forwarding point) of the same department. Among prisoners it is better known as the White Swan. In 1988, by order of the Minister of Internal Affairs A.V. Vlasov, similar institutions were created in 7 departments of GULIT. In the reorganization programs of the GUIN of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the 1994s, it was planned to create institutions of this type at 18 more regional and forest penitentiaries.
How else does EPKT differ from just PKT? When placed in a penal colony, the convict is not transferred from the penitentiary colony where he is serving his sentence, the same educator (detachment leader) works with him, he has contact only with convicts of his penitentiary colony, his postal address does not change, etc. When a prisoner is sentenced to the EPCT, he is transferred to another city, sometimes another region, and actually experiences the same thing as prisoners who are transferred from a colony to a prison-type institution (indoor). Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs explain the appearance of EPKT in forest departments by the fact that not all forest ITKs had enough premises for EPKT. In official documents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the EPKT is assigned the following task: “Isolation of convicts who are actively opposing the administration of the penitentiary institution in ensuring law and order.” Meanwhile, the law provides for prison-type institutions (indoors) to perform this task. True, the prison regime for “convicts who actively oppose...” is assigned by court decision. To be sent to the EPKT, which is almost no different from prison-type institutions, only a resolution from the head of the correctional colony is required. Thus, one of the goals of the EPCT (in the first period of their existence before being consolidated in the Penal Code of the Russian Federation in 1997) is to create opportunities for penitentiary workers to act outside the norms of the law, without any control over their actions.
There are several other tasks performed by these semi-legitimate "experimental" institutions that are not mentioned in the "program". In the secret instructions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, EPKT are called “preventive centers for carrying out decomposition work with negatively minded convicts.” This semi-legitimate "experimental" institute actually performs the following tasks:
1. Recruitment of agents for operational services. Those recruited are subsequently sent to various correctional institutions and placed at the disposal of operational search services in the wild.
2. Conducting operational work among convicts suspected of committing unsolved crimes, with the subsequent initiation of criminal cases.
3. Intimidation of convicts held in ordinary penitentiary institutions. The threat of being sent to the EPKT is a very effective way of influencing prisoners whose behavior for some reason does not suit the administration of the correctional facility.
It is clear that the task of uncovering offenses in the EPCT is solved outside the procedural norms established by law for ordinary investigation and inquiry. To recruit agents and solve crimes, the EPKT uses “various forms of psychological and regime influence” - this is how professional opera jargon refers to illegal methods of obtaining confessions, necessary information, or changing the behavior of the target of operational work in the desired direction. Such methods include not only “educational conversations,” but also press cameras, torture, and beatings. Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs constantly refer to the positive effect of experiments with EPKT in terms of “improving the operational situation in the correctional facility.” These statements should be treated with caution. Firstly, during departmental assessment of the results of “experiments” conducted by the same department, quite often any given indicators are organized. Secondly, the selected evaluation criteria (the number of offenses and disciplinary violations allowed in ITU) make it possible to assess only the immediate, and not the long-term, consequences of a particular experiment. One can, for example, notice that the number of leaders of “negative groups” has constantly increased over the years of the existence of the EPKT. It is also not taken into account that as a result of the “decomposition work” society receives completely degraded people who are ready to commit the most brutal crimes.
Rogue
(t) - see thieves.
Fill it up, fill it up
- kill.
Darkened camera
- a cell in which prisoners who decide to break out of other cells are kept.
Law
(t) - a system of informal norms, rules, guidelines, sanctions against violators, procedures for resolving conflicts, introducing new norms, etc., operating in a community of prisoners (prison law) or within a separate group, caste of prisoners (for example, thieves' law ).
Finish
(t): objects, and especially food items touched by the detainee, are taboo for other groups of prisoners; such things are called “finished”, that is, dirty, spoiled, posing a danger to normal people.
Close
(t, s) - put in a punishment cell.
Soak
(t) - kill.
Zapadlo
(t) - violations of prison norms, which may be different for prisoners of different groups (colors). “Not a bummer” - that is, an act in accordance with these norms.
Ban
(t, s), forbidden strip
(o) - a strip of earth dug up and leveled with a rake, well preserving traces of those who stepped on it; located between the fences surrounding all ITUs or industrial and residential areas. Processing the restricted area (digging, loosening, leveling the ground) is the responsibility of guarding the colony. According to the correct concepts, a prisoner who agreed to do this work (“go out on a ban”) is considered a goat (for goats and those who have been omitted, this work is not considered shameful).
“Kick them out” is one of the ways that the administration of the penitentiary institution fights against informal prison law. Currently, the work of prisoners in “security facilities” is prohibited by law. However, the administration of the colonies continues to use various methods of suppressing those who adhere to the prison law (see bedside table, SPP). Those who refuse to carry out work that is shameful, from the point of view of prison law, are usually punished by being placed in a punishment cell and being put under pressure. This is also one of the ways the administration identifies denialists.
Set up a bomb
- the same thing as getting dirty, finishing up, - coming into contact with the omitted, his things or place on the bunk, in other words - becoming defiled.
Correspondence student
- a woman who enters into correspondence with a prisoner in absentia, without knowing him personally. Sometimes such correspondence lasts for years and - there are cases - it ends with the creation of a family. For a prisoner, this is a very important means of restoring lost connections with the outside world.
Sharpening
- an iron rod, pointed at one end, a weapon used in internecine clashes and during riots.
Screw it up
(t) - approximately the same as finishing, i.e. desecrate, desecrate. A “tarnished” item can sometimes be used after ritual cleansing. See also pig.
Grind
(t) - the same as finishing. See shvarny.
Zek, prisoner
(f, c) - prisoner, prisoners. From the outdated official abbreviation z/k ("prisoner canal soldier"), which appeared during the construction of the White Sea Canal in the 30s. Currently, the law refers to prisoners as persons under investigation, defendants, in custody, and, after the verdict enters into legal force, as convicted persons.
ZNRS
(c) - a persistent violator of the detention regime.
Zone
- 1) (o) Part of the ITU, fenced off from the rest of the territory. For example, residential area, industrial area, restricted area, local area, etc.
2) (t, s) General name of places of deprivation of liberty. Separate ITK. In prison slang it is used with the preposition "on". For example, go to a zone, rise to a zone, etc. The zones are divided by the prisoners themselves, depending on which of the colors occupies a dominant position in it, into: red, goat; black, thieves, thieves; peasant.
IVS
(o) - temporary detention center (see KPZ).
Insulator
(s, t) - the same as a punishment cell.
ITK
(o) - corrective labor colony, the general name for camp-type institutions for adult convicts. Penal colonies are divided into general regime colonies (for men convicted of minor crimes for the first time, and for all women, with the exception of those recognized by the court as especially dangerous repeat offenders), enhanced regime (for men convicted of serious crimes for the first time), strict regime (for men already serving sentences of imprisonment, and for women recognized by the court as especially dangerous repeat offenders), special regime (for men recognized as especially dangerous repeat offenders) and colony-settlement (semi-closed institutions for those convicted for the first time for unintentional crimes or for prisoners transferred by decision ships from general, enhanced and strict regime colonies). The ITC regime is assigned to the convicted person by the court. ITCs of different regimes differ in their conditions of detention.
There are also specialized ITKs (for tuberculosis patients and the disabled), forest ITKs, and ITKs for former law enforcement officers and stateless persons. The decision to send a person to a specialized correctional facility or prison hospital is made by the administration of the correctional facility or pre-trial detention center.
The regime of detention (number of parcels and transfers, visits, telephone conversations, etc.) is tightened from general to special.
Special regime prisoners are kept in locked cells (for 20-50 people), other regime prisoners are kept in dormitories (prisoners call them “barracks”). The sleeping rooms in the dormitories are designed for 20-150 people, the beds are located in two or three tiers. In addition to sleeping rooms in the dormitory, for every 150-200 people ("detachment") there are: a room for storing personal belongings; dressing room (for outerwear); room for meals (with a device for boiling water, cabinets for food); “red corner” (formerly called “Lenin’s room”), where political classes and cultural events are usually held, tables, bookshelves, a radio speaker, and a TV (if available); sometimes (in those rare cases when the penitentiary complex has a sewerage system) - a toilet. The legal norm for living space is 2 square meters. m per person. In colonies of all regimes, except for special regime, in front of the dormitory there is a small walking area enclosed by a fence ("local zone"), designed for 200-600 people. During the daytime, free from work and activities, prisoners have the right to leave the dormitory to the “local zone”. Throughout the rest of the colony, prisoners can only move in formation if they receive permission from the administration. The number of prisoners in one penitentiary colony: from 500 to 3000 (more often - in the range of 1500-2000 people).
The ITK is divided into industrial (production premises are located here) and residential zones. Between these zones there is a fence, rows of barbed wire, and between them there is a corridor, sometimes shot through by security soldiers. The residential area is, in turn, divided into a number of local zones where dormitories are located. In addition, on the territory of the residential area there is usually a dining room, a club, a library, a school, an outpatient clinic (medical unit), sometimes a small hospital (for 10-30 people), a bathhouse, and a headquarters in which premises for administrative workers are located. In the ITC there are usually rooms for short-term (from 2 to 4 hours) and long-term (from 1 to 3 days) visits.
The penitentiary colony also has premises for disciplinary punishment: a punishment cell (punishment cell, here the period of detention of the punished person is up to 15 days) and PKT (a cell-type room, the period of detention is up to six months). Until 1988, prisoners in the punishment cell and PKT were prescribed a reduced food allowance. There were a number of other restrictions (lack of bed linen, walks, correspondence, books, smoking, parcels and packages, etc.). In Russia, some of these restrictions were abolished in 1992. However, in 1993, a reduced food standard (though not as severe as before) was reintroduced by order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Since January 1, 1997, the penal colonies have been renamed to IK (Correctional Colonies).
ITK RSFSR
(o) - Correctional Labor Code of the RSFSR. In the former USSR, each republic had its own ITK, developed on the basis of the “Fundamentals of Correctional Labor Legislation of the USSR”. From 1.07.97. The Criminal Executive Code of the Russian Federation - the Penal Code of the Russian Federation - came into force.
ITU
(o) - correctional labor institutions, the general name of institutions for the execution of criminal punishment. These, in addition to all types of penitentiary complexes, include military-technical complexes, medical treatment centers, prisons, and therapeutic correctional institutions. Since January 1, 1997, ITUs have been renamed IU (Correctional Institutions).
Hospital-type ITU
- hospitals for prisoners in need of serious treatment or examination. Almost all regional and forest departments of prisons have their own hospitals for prisoners. Hospital-type correctional institutions have sections for prisoners of various regimes, women and minors. The content is intimate.
Gimp
- violation of the rules of relations, harm to one prisoner by another or others. (See mess).
Capo
(t) - 1) A prisoner who voluntarily cooperates with the administration of the correctional facility. 2) Informer, informant (B). The term originated in the concentration camps of Germany during the Third Reich.
Kentovka
- the same as family, family (see).
Goat
(r) - a representative of a group in the informal hierarchy of prisoners, formed on the basis of: open cooperation (in the present or past) with the administration of the correctional facility. This group emerged from the prison community in the 60s. Unlike the activist of the 30-50s, the status of a goat becomes almost permanent for a prisoner and accompanies him throughout his entire stay in prison.
The appearance of the goat caste is apparently connected with the reaction of the prison subculture to the penitentiary policy of the Soviet government in the early 60s.
A formal act that includes a prisoner in the caste of goats may be joining “amateur organizations of convicts,” agreeing to take a position or perform work considered shameful by correct concepts. All this is a necessary condition for receiving a number of benefits from the administration, the right to occupy certain “nomenklatura” positions, moving into the category of people “firmly on the path of correction,” and therefore becoming a candidate for early release or pardon.
For the majority of prisoners, goats are traitors to the interests of the prison community, collaborators.
The word goat is one of the most serious insults for a prisoner who does not belong to this group. A prisoner who is so named is obliged to react immediately and harshly (to hit or even kill the offender), otherwise he risks his reputation and a decrease in status. The word goat and its derivatives (goat, goat, goat and even horned) are taboo, and they are forbidden to be used in everyday speech. For example, the game of dominoes, known by this name in the wild, is called “one hundred and one” in prison; telling another that he has something knitted from goat hair means insulting him.
It’s interesting that in the 30-50s, passive homosexuals were called goats in the camp (see ZhR).
Prisoners belonging to this group prefer to use various euphemisms when calling themselves: activist, red, “independent man,” “positive.” In a calm situation, the same euphemisms are used by other prisoners in the presence of goats.
Trump fraer
- an authoritative thieves, a level in the hierarchy of thieves, immediately following the title of thief. (See Thief, thieves).
The colony
- settlement, settlement - see ITK.
Counterparty (colloquially counterparty)
(o) - each of the parties to the contract in relation to each other. An official term from the use of officials of the Soviet national economy (for example, a plant that supplies parts for machines assembled by prisoners, or a representative of this plant, could be designated to the camp). Today this word in colloquial speech is widely replaced by the term “business partner”.
Controller
(o) - employee of the prisoner supervision service. His functions include maintaining order in the territory of the correctional facility, pre-trial detention center, conducting searches, etc.
Horse
(t) - a method of illegal communication between cameras. For example, a string stretched along the outside of the prison body between the windows of the cells, fishing line passed through sewer pipes, etc. With the help of a horse, notes, small items, etc. are passed from cell to cell. Wed. with ZhR: “a small package smuggled, usually tied to a string, which is thrown out the cell window.”
bark beetle
(T), special school, special vocational school
(o) - penitentiary institutions for juvenile offenders of a semi-open type. Special schools contain children from 11 to 14 years old, and special vocational schools contain teenagers from 14 to 18 years old who have committed criminal or status violations (i.e. violations for which only teenagers and children are punished; adults are not subject to punishment for the same actions : truancy, bad behavior at school and in the family, appearing on the street while drunk, running away from home, etc.). All children over 14 years of age and the majority (up to 90%) up to 18 years of age are placed in special institutions by decision of administrative bodies - commissions on juvenile affairs under the executive committees of local councils. In this case, children and most adolescents are practically deprived of the right to defense, their guilt is proven in the absence of a lawyer, the usual procedures for a judicial investigation are not necessary, and there is no right of appeal. The term of punishment in special institutions is arbitrary; it can be extended at the request of teachers' councils up to three years, and sometimes beyond that. It is not uncommon for a punished person to be re-educated far from home, which complicates his contacts with his family and relatives.
Special schools and special vocational schools are under the departmental affiliation of the Ministry of Education, however, in terms of conditions of detention, isolation regime, social microclimate, and the forced nature of labor, most of these institutions are not much different from VTC. Rape, torture and beatings of the majority of pupils by a group of children or teenagers enjoying the patronage of educators (the principle of Soviet pedagogy is collective education), and sometimes by the educators themselves, are also common here.
Jamb
(t) - 1) Violation of rules and norms of prison law.
2) Armband of a member of the SPP or other section with the corresponding abbreviation. Most often blue.
3) Unsuccessful action or deed.
4) Cigarette or rolled-up cigarette with marijuana.
Kosyachny
(t) - a person who constantly commits acts that contradict generally accepted norms in the prisoner community.
bullpen
(o) - a pre-trial detention cell, a room for holding those detained at the scene of a crime, those suspected of committing a crime, etc. The period of detention in a correctional facility usually does not exceed 3 days, but can be extended to 10, and in special cases - up to 30 days. The arrested person is either released from the correctional facility or, with the sanction of the prosecutor, transferred to a pre-trial detention center. Currently, the bullpen is called a “temporary detention center” or temporary detention facility. About 4 million people pass through temporary detention facilities every year. The average daily population in 1997 was 65 thousand prisoners. However, the group of prisoners held in temporary detention facilities is not included in official statistics.
Red zone
- a zone where the administration rules with the help of goats and, regardless of the prison law, for example, tries to seat those sent down in the canteen at common tables, requires that prisoners walk in formation to and from the canteen, prohibits movement around the zone, entry into other people’s barracks and etc.
In such a zone, activists have broad powers and can behave very aggressively; surveillance of each other, denunciation, and petty quibbles about the behavior and clothing of prisoners are encouraged.
Red
(t) is a euphemism for the word goat.
Crosses
- central prison in St. Petersburg. The name that the prison received due to the cruciform arrangement of its buildings has been borne by it since its opening (at the beginning of the 20th century).
Circle
- education broader than family or kentovka; formed most often according to the principle of fraternity.
Wing (put on wing)
- a bandage on the sleeve, meaning the prisoner’s entry into the active, i.e., in prison jargon, into the goats.
Covered
(t, s) - prison-type correctional facilities for those convicted of serious crimes or sent to prison by court order from the correctional facility for systematic violations of the regime of detention. There are only 15 indoor ones in Russia.
Ksiva
(t) - 1) Note, letter. It is transferred illegally from cell to cell, from camp to camp, from prison to freedom and vice versa. Often contains important information about events and persons, sometimes - instructions from authorities (see thieves' orders). There are also ksivs of purely personal content. Constant communication between camps and prisons scattered throughout the country is carried out using XIV. Synonym - "little one, little one."
2) Document, identity card.
Godfather
(t) - employee of the operational unit of a correctional facility or pre-trial detention center. See also opera.
Nepotism mudka, nepotism weed
- provocations organized in the zone by operatives to achieve their goals. They may consist in pitting various groups of prisoners against each other, in spreading incriminating rumors about the zone authorities, etc., which can cause unrest in the zone and even a riot, when suppressed, undesirable persons are eliminated, etc. Smaller provocations with the same purpose (to intimidate or “neutralize” unwanted persons) are called nepotistic gadgets or jokes. They may involve planting drugs on a prisoner, for example, followed by discovery of them in his possession and corresponding sanctions against him.
Stall, stall
(t, s) - 1) A store for prisoners in an ITU, purchases in which are made by bank transfer.
2) Products, smokes, etc., purchased by the prisoner officially in the ITU store. For the majority of prisoners, there are restrictions both on the amount they can spend monthly on buying a kiosk, and on the fact that they can only use money earned in a correctional facility.
Persons who are firmly on the path to correction
(o) - convicts who, according to the conclusion of the relevant ITU employee, have reformed and have ceased to be criminals. In characteristics or certificates for a prisoner, two formulations are usually used: “firmly embarked on the path of correction” or “did not embark on the path of correction.” In practice, these formulations have nothing to do with the real criminality of the prisoner. “Firmly embarked on the path of correction” means that the prisoner is a collaborator, cooperates with the administration, or (less commonly) does not belong to the negative group. An activist can come to the camp for the fifth or tenth time for committing crimes, and still be considered “firmly on the path of correction.” Unfortunately, there are no relevant statistics, but according to some estimates, recidivism among persons who have taken the path of correction is higher than the average for all prisoners.
Local
(t, s), local zone
(o) - this is the name given to sections of the residential area fenced off from each other, where barracks for one or two detachments are located; a measure taken to limit contact between prisoners and reduce the likelihood of mass incidents.
Local tower
(o) - a tower with a cabin in which a prisoner appointed by the administration ("keykeeper") is on duty and in which there is a local telephone connecting him with supervision or headquarters. Its functions include: monitoring the general order in the residential area, reporting to the supervisory service about noticed disturbances, excesses, etc. He usually opens gates from local zones and residential zone gates from the control panel.
Withdrawal
(t, s) - 1) Various, usually latent, ways of influencing a prisoner in order to force him to abandon correct concepts. In special “preventive” penitentiary institutions (for example, “White Swan”, indoor) a “negative prisoner” is usually forced to sign a statement renouncing “thieves’ ideas.” Such a statement is usually used for educational work with other prisoners, reading the “renunciation” on the local radio or in front of the line in those correctional institutions where the “broken” prisoner is known. In fact, such an action does not lead to re-education, but to the embitterment of prisoners; they know very well what methods they use to achieve the signing of these statements. See also press, press chamber, ban, bedside table, SPP, broom.
2) The state of withdrawal after stopping taking drugs or alcohol.
Health care facilities
- local preventive area. This is a specially designated local zone of a correctional facility, intended, according to employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, for “containing malicious violators of the detention regime.” Health care facilities, they believe, make it possible to “reduce the negative impact of the more criminal part of the convicts on the bulk.” In a number of correctional institutions, prisoners placed in medical institutions are kept in cell-type premises. The creation of health care facilities in each institution is “one of the main directions” of the concept of reorganization of the penal system, developed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. By 1995, health care facilities had been created in more than 300 institutions. Both subjectively and objectively, placement in a health care facility is a punishment for the convicted person. Here the isolation is much stricter, the convict’s ability to move around the colony’s territory and choose a job are limited. In practice, illegal methods of suppression are more often used here (for example, bringing in OSN fighters and mass beatings) and the so-called. "destructive ways of working with prisoners."
The current Correctional Labor Code provides for the same purposes ("containment of malicious violators of the detention regime...", etc.) punishment cells and PKT are provided; they do not need to be created, they are already in every correctional facility. Why was it necessary to reinvent the wheel, to create outside the law something provided for by law?
The answer to this question will be easier to find if we take into account that placing a convict in a punishment cell and a penal cell is a type of punishment for a specific disciplinary violation committed by a convict (or a system of violations), which requires the implementation of certain procedures (drawing up a resolution, drawing up a report on the violation, obtaining explanations from the person being punished, etc.). This punishment can be appealed by the convicted person in the manner prescribed by law. In addition, the period of placement in a punishment cell and PKT is strictly limited (in a punishment cell - fifteen days at a time and two months per year, in a PKT - six months). Placement in a medical facility, since it is not provided for by law, does not require anything like that: neither a specific violation, nor procedural documentation. It is not limited to any specific period and cannot be appealed by the convicted person. Apparently, this is why the creation of health care facilities is considered “one of the main directions” in the proposals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. See also EPKT.
Since July 1, 1997, health care facilities have been legalized by the PEC of the Russian Federation, now they are called SUS zones (strict conditions of detention).
LTP
(o) - medical and labor dispensary. A closed institution where chronic alcoholics (less often drug addicts) who have not committed any crime are kept by court order. Since 1994, institutions of this type have been disbanded in Russia.
People
- in the old terminology - thieves, thieves. Nowadays it is rarely used.
Young girl(t, s) - 1) a juvenile prisoner.
2) The totality of special (correctional) institutions for juvenile offenders (special schools, special vocational schools and military technical schools), as well as the entire contingent of persons contained in them. In juvenile detention, the regime of detention, food and conditions are better than in correctional institutions for adult prisoners. However, from the point of view of preserving the life, health, and personality of the prisoner, the juvenile is the most terrible part of the Gulag. Bullying, beatings, torture, torture, rape (of some prisoners by others) are the everyday reality of this type of institution.
3) Part of a special section in a pre-trial detention center for juvenile prisoners.
Malyava
- a note, a letter, in contrast to a letter of a more private nature, but in some cases the words are used interchangeably.
Mother
(t) - one of the informal leaders in the caste of the lowered. Together with another leader (dad), he resolves all issues in this informal group of prisoners. Unlike dad, he deals with the economic problems of the abandoned and issues related to the sale and supply of his charges to thieves as sexual objects. Dad resolves conflicts between the abandoned, turns to authorities in the case when his charges are treated in violation of the correct concepts (for example, they do not pay for sexual services provided, etc.). The Pope is the plenipotentiary representative of the omitted in contacts with the leaders of other informal groups. More often than not, the functions of father and mother are performed by one person, the head rooster.
Suit
(t) - 1) This or that group, caste in the informal hierarchy of prisoners. In the prison world, there are four main castes (in order of decreasing status): thieves (black), men (gray), goats (red), lowered (blue). Each caste has its own hierarchy within. The prison subculture is extremely conservative, vertical transitions (increasing status) are extremely difficult or even impossible. The existence of suits is recognized and taken into account by ITU employees. For example, before sending a punished prisoner to a cell in a punishment cell or PKT, the officer on duty asks about his color (prisoners of different groups are kept in different cells).
According to ZhR: “suit is a social stratum in the prison camp world.”
2) Status of a prisoner in the informal hierarchy (muzhik, thieves, etc.).
Mattress, twist through mattress
- since the new regulations prohibit keeping a prisoner in a punishment cell or PTC for longer than a certain period, as well as extending this period without leaving the detention center, the administration invented this method - “twist through the mattress” (twist, unwind - and means receiving a new term without leaving the place of detention ; cm.). The prisoner is released into the zone and allowed to spend the night on his mattress, after which he is given a new sentence and again locked in the isolation ward.
Mattress
- a mattress cover in which a prisoner puts his and government belongings when going to a cell or from one cell to another.
Makhnovists
- see Polish thieves. The connection of this concept with the name N.I. Makhno is, presumably, accidental.
Cop
(t) - employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Broom
(t, s) - 1) Language. See watch the broom.
2) One of the ways to break a prisoner who adheres to correct concepts. Among the peasants and thieves, the work associated with sweeping the territory of the penal colony is considered shameful. ITU staff know that picking up a broom lowers the informal status of a prisoner, and they present him with a choice: either go out with a broom onto the parade ground (where all prisoners are lined up, and it is not at all necessary to actually sweep the area), or be sent to a punishment cell. See also stool, ban, SPP.
Mokrushnik
(t) - killer.
wet business
(t) - murder.
Guys
(t) - 1) General name for the largest group in the informal hierarchy of prisoners. They differ from thieves in that, according to prison law, they work in the zone in regular positions, and from goats in that they do not cooperate with the administration. The men do not claim any power, they do not serve anyone, but they do not interfere in the affairs of thieves (except in cases of thieves' lawlessness). All other groups of prisoners listen to the opinion of authoritative men. The majority of men adhere to the correct concepts.
2) The general name of all prisoners, except those omitted.
Garbage
- the same as a cop - a policeman.
Supervision
- release of a prisoner with the condition of registering him with the police at his place of residence while free and with the obligation to report every day at a certain time to the officer supervising him. He is prohibited from leaving his place of residence after a certain set time and from being away from home, for example, late in the evening or at night. Violation of supervision rules previously resulted in a court order and the imposition of a new term.
Supervision
(t, s) - room for the supervisory service.
Supervision service, supervision composition
(o) - a service that exercises day-to-day control over the behavior of prisoners, compliance with the detention regime, etc. Consists of military personnel of conscript and long-term service of convoy troops. The supervisory service reports to the head of the convoy troops, and not to the head of the correctional facility.
Hitting
- aggressive provocation towards a person from other people; for example, presenting some unfounded demands or accusations in order to intimidate this person or provoke him to resist, as a result it will be possible to beat him, take away some things, or draw up an order and lock him in a detention center, conduct a search, etc.
mother hen
(t, s) - an agent of the operative placed in the investigative cell to “split” the persons under investigation or a specific person under investigation. In addition to obtaining the necessary information about the crime committed, sometimes the task is to exert psychological pressure on a cellmate in order to persuade him to give the testimony necessary to the investigator.
Production rate
- the amount of products that a prisoner must produce per unit of time (shift, month). For failure to comply with the production quota, the prisoner may be punished in one way or another. The production rate for prisoners is usually higher than in the wild. This is partly due to the fact that during the period under review, the annual time balance for prisoners was significantly higher than in the wild, because prisoners had no vacation, and their working week was 48 hours (in the wild - 41). Among other punishments, prisoners who did not meet production standards could be deprived of the so-called “guarantee” - crediting the “guarantee” to their account: 10% of the monthly salary, regardless of any other circumstances (their repayment of a lawsuit , alimony payments, etc.). This procedure was changed after the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation adopted the “Law of the Russian Federation “On Amendments and Additions to the Correctional Labor Code of the RSFSR, the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and the Criminal Procedure Code of the RSFSR” (June 12, 1992).
Offended
(t) - a cell for prisoners who managed to “escape” (during a check, taking them out for a walk, making an appointment with the opera, etc.) from their previous cell. In prison jargon, “to escape” sounds like this: “to break out of the cell.” This action, associated with turning to the administration for help in resolving a conflict with cellmates, is considered, according to correct concepts, a jamb. Prison law prescribes turning to authorities to resolve all kinds of internal conflicts. An exception to this rule is the case of “breaking out” from the press cell (but provided that the “breaking out” prisoner resists being placed in the holding cell). Prisoners who have been expelled ("broken out") from their cells are sometimes placed in the prison.
Offended
(t) - 1) A prisoner of an offense or someone who was sitting in an offense.
2) In some regions the same as omitted.
3. Euphemism for the words omitted, rooster.
1. In some zones, the pre-trial detention center is not lowered, but simply humiliated, “put on a broom,” deprived of its caste rights; he can look for excuses and satisfaction and “get” from the offenders.
Obshchak
- 1) general regime ITC.
2) Multi-person (for 20-30 or more people) cell in a pre-trial detention center.
3) A group of authoritative thieves.
4) The order in which all food, tea, and smokes entering the cell are distributed equally among all prisoners (except for those who are omitted).
5) Illegal prisoner mutual aid fund. May consist of money, food, tea, smoking, things, etc. According to prison law, contributions to the common fund must be made exclusively on a voluntary basis by men and thieves. Funds from the common fund are used for general needs (for example, bribery of penitentiary correctional officers, prisoners from household services, etc.), to help prisoners who find themselves in distress: first of all, those kept in punishment cells and PKT, prisoners sent to an indoor or hospital; for beginners who do not have outside help, etc. Although the common fund is intended for prisoners who live according to the correct concepts (men and thieves), sometimes exceptions are made to this rule: some part of the money from the common fund, sent to the punishment cell and the PKT, should be distributed between the goats kept there and those sent down. In practice, many of the listed principles (voluntariness of contributions, equal rights in receiving assistance, etc.) are violated.
Supervisor of the common fund
- this is, as a rule, a thieves appointed at the gangway. The overseer selects assistants for fundraising. Participation in the collection, distribution, and storage of the common fund is brutally persecuted by the administration.
The goats and the lower ones can have their own common funds.
General
(t) - related to the common fund, i.e. illegal prisoner mutual aid fund.
Public
- activists, members of public amateur organizations or sections. In the language of the administration it is a word with a positive connotation, in the language of prisoners who are not part of the sections it is ironic.
Social and amateur organizations
- see SVP, SPP. They can be called “amateur” very conditionally, because and in the 70s and 80s, the administration used a whole arsenal of coercive means to replenish them: from bribery to threats and direct pressure. These organizations served as an indicator of the educational work of the administration with prisoners, and therefore sometimes a fantastic goal was set - to drive the entire population of the correctional institutions into them, which, in turn, caused resistance by all means, including strikes and riots. (See Prisoners' Amateur Organizations).
General mode
- Penal colony for those convicted for the first time (first-time offenders) or for minor crimes. It is distinguished by a large number of diverse and often meaningless customs and rituals, as well as self-proclaimed leaders and false thieves.
OID
(see GUIN).
Riot police
- special purpose police detachment (special forces). Units of the Russian police created to perform particularly difficult tasks (fighting organized crime, preventing mass unrest, apprehending armed criminals, etc.).
Prisoners often call OMON special forces, created at regional prison departments to suppress riots, free hostages, etc. Since 1991, these detachments have been used for preventive purposes to intimidate prisoners in correctional institutions, where, according to the administration, a dangerous situation has developed.
OER
(o) - a particularly dangerous repeat offender. See mansion.
Opera
(f, s) - operational service worker.
Operational service
(o) - a structural unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs engaged in the prevention and detection of crimes. Widely uses undercover methods of work. Each correctional facility or pre-trial detention center has an operational unit that must monitor the general situation in the institution, prevent crimes, all kinds of excesses, solve previously committed crimes, and collect information about the leaders of the criminal world. The operational unit has a large staff of agents among prisoners (according to some estimates, from 2 to 5% of the number of convicts): informants and provocateurs; widely uses illegal methods of influencing prisoners that cannot be controlled by supervisory authorities (pitting different groups of prisoners against each other, using thieves to intimidate other prisoners, press cameras, etc.). See, for example, "Ogonyok", 1990, ??35-36, "Diary of an Informer".
Operational search activities
- activities of the police, including initial work with the offense:
going to the scene of the incident;
drawing up documents about the incident;
activities to identify those responsible for the incident (inquiry);
preparation of documents for transfer to investigators.
Lower
(t, s) - 1) Lower the status in the informal hierarchy of prisoners. (Obsolete).
2) Transfer to the untouchable caste (omitted, roosters) - rape or perform a ritual associated with the transfer of a prisoner to the untouchable caste. In this case, rape-substituting rituals are often used: the prisoner is placed on a bucket with a piece of bread, doused with water from the bucket, forced to drink water from the bucket, passed the phallus, a towel soaked in sperm, over the lips, anus, etc.
Lowered
(t, s) - a representative of the lowest group in the informal hierarchy of prisoners, a kind of untouchable caste. You cannot take anything from someone who is lowered, you cannot touch him, you cannot sit on his bunk, etc. The prisoners have their own separate places in the barracks, prison cell, in the dining room, their own labeled dishes, they perform the dirtiest jobs - those that other prisoners no longer have the right to undertake. They have certain identification marks and are required to report upon arrival at a place where they are not known that they are omitted, so that other prisoners, having entered into communication with them, do not lose their status. It is useless and dangerous to hide one’s status as a derelict; sooner or later his past becomes known, and then the revealed despondents are punished, beaten, and sometimes killed. It is believed that he made a mess of everyone who interacted with him and sat next to him. The status of a lifelong prisoner, say, a break in his prison career does not change him.
It is a very common misconception that only passive homosexuals fall into the omitted category. According to some estimates, there are no more than 20% of those who are voluntary homosexuals (although a person who was a passive homosexual in freedom and failed to hide it becomes rejected). Transfer to omitted status is usually made for gross violations of prison law: informing, ratting, unpaid gambling debt, lawlessness towards other prisoners. They omit press workers, goats, wool workers, those who committed shameful, from the point of view of correct concepts, crimes (rape of children, brutal rape of women, brutal unmotivated murder, indecent acts with minors, etc.), former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, soldiers of the internal troops who find themselves in an ordinary prison cell... A prisoner, feeling the seriousness of the violation he has committed, sometimes prefers to voluntarily join the caste of the lowered (say, to move his things to the corner of the barracks where the lowered live). In this case, as a rule, he is not subjected to any ritual procedures or rape.
It should be noted that in institutions for juvenile delinquents and first-time offenders, ritual-symbolic motivation in relation to those who have been neglected prevails over semantic motivation. The very distinctive features of the untouchable caste here acquire a mystical meaning separate from the objects they designate (see finish). For example, a person who has not committed any special violations of prison law (raped in a press chamber, accidentally came into unauthorized contact with someone who was sent down) falls into the caste of untouchables. This is not seen as a punishment, but as an accident that leaves a person “crippled” for life. The transfer itself to the omitted caste is often accomplished with the help of rituals (see omit), forcing one to remember the customs existing in primitive tribes.
The omitted caste appeared in the prison community in the 60s, perhaps as a reaction of the prisoner subculture to the new penitentiary policy of the authorities. The struggle for the preservation of personality in conditions when the administration of the penitentiary institution used the most cruel methods of pressure on prisoners in order to force them to commit immoral, from the point of view of traditional culture, actions, led to the invention of its informal sanction for “apostates”, this is a kind of ostracism, moral exile from the community in conditions where real expulsion is impossible. It is also possible that punishment in the form of rape during the period of establishment of amateur organizations of convicts for the first time began to be imposed on those who became their members. Let us recall that the current name of the collaborationist caste (goats) in the 40-50s referred to passive homosexuals.
By the way, the guardians of prison law and the traditions of the prison world claim that the punishment in the form of transferring a person to the caste of the lowered according to the correct concepts is considered unacceptable. According to their version, the caste of the lowered was “invented by the cops” and introduced into the prison world with the help of press workers, wool workers, and lawless men. It must be said that the administration of the ITU is very willing to use the institution of those released to break the recalcitrant. One of the most terrible threats for a denier is rape in a press chamber. After a rape, the opera can offer the raped a kind of gentleman's agreement: no one will know about what happened if the prisoner agrees to become his agent or sign a statement renouncing the ideas of thieves. The threat of omission is also used by investigators. It should also be added that the main suppliers to the omitted caste are institutions for juvenile offenders, first-timers and press chambers. Cases of the application of the omission sanction among repeat offenders are extremely rare and are the exception (violation of prison law) rather than the rule. The attitude towards those sent to correctional institutions among recidivists is not of such a cruel and sadistic nature as in minors and in general regime correctional institutions, although some norms that are taboo in nature, defining the “untouchability” of those rejected, remain.
Within the group of the omitted there is its own hierarchy, reminiscent of the informal hierarchy of the entire community of prisoners. It has its own informal leaders (chief roosters, fathers, mothers) with their entourage, ordinary lowlifes and roosters, who are pushed around by everyone in this group (sold as a sexual object, forced to work for themselves, raped, tortured). The informal leaders of the deported most often include former thieves who were deported for some kind of mistakes (non-payment of a gambling debt, snitching, etc.), as well as those who were raped or otherwise deported in the press chambers.
OSN
- special forces squad. See riot police.
Mansion
(t) - 1) Special regime correctional colony.
2) Particularly dangerous recidivist (OOR). An offender may be recognized as a criminal offense by a court decision for previous repeated convictions. Often this category includes people who do not pose a particular danger, but have more than one prison sentence in the past.
“And they say to me: - Did you kill someone? - Yes, I didn’t kill anyone. I stole pears! - Why are you “especially dangerous”? - Because you climbed into the same barn many times! (Excerpt from an interview with a particularly dangerous repeat offender).
Convict
(t) - a cell in a pre-trial detention center where prisoners are kept in respect of whom a court verdict has been passed, but has not yet entered into legal force.
Convicted
(o) - the official name of the prisoner in respect of whom the court verdict has entered into legal force. Self-designation of prisoners in dialogue with officials (“Citizen Chief, the convicted Arab-ogly has arrived on your orders”). In the speech of prisoners, the emphasis is on the letter “y”: “convicted.”
Products, products
(t) - monthly purchase by prisoners of food products in a camp store (stall) for a strictly defined amount of money.
Negative
(s, t), negative convicts
(o) - prisoners who, from the point of view of the administration of the correctional facility, interfere with its work, negatively influence other prisoners. All prisoners are divided by correctional facility workers and scientists from the Ministry of Internal Affairs into three groups: positive (helping them in their work), neutral (not interfering), and negative. Not only thieves, but also all those disliked by the administration (for example, those who file complaints against the administration, refuse to do “inappropriate” work for employees, etc.) fall into denial. For ways to combat denialism, see broom, stool, ban, SPP, press camera.
Squad
(o) - 1) Structural unit of ITU. In the colony, prisoners are divided into groups of 100 to 200 people. There are from 2 to 5 production teams in a detachment. In the VTK, the detachments are divided into sections of 20-30 people. The detachment is usually located compactly in one room, in one local zone.
2) The room where the detachment is located (bedrooms, red corner, rooms for storing things and food, toilet, office of the detachment leader, etc.).
Otryadnik
(T), squad leader
(o) - an ITK employee under whose command the detachment is located.
Soldering
(t) - 1) All government products (bread, sugar, gruel, etc.) provided for prisoners by law.
2) A portion of bread given to a prisoner.
Dad
(t) - informal leader in the caste (omitted). See mom, chief rooster.
Parasha
(t) - 1) A vessel for excrement in a cell where there is no sewage system.
2) Toilet in the cell. The place near the bucket is considered the most unprestigious. In the cells of juveniles and first-timers, there is sometimes a rule according to which the person who has been lowered must eat while sitting on the bucket (or near it).
3) Nonsense rumor, gossip.
Guys
- the same as people: thieves and those close to them
Godfather
(t) - the most authoritative thieves in a given community (cell, prison, colony).
kid
(t) - a person who occupies a high position in the society of prisoners in general regime colonies (sometimes as a juvenile), thieves.
PVR
(c) - 1) political and educational work.
2) Internal regulations - a regulatory document of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that determines the conditions of detention of prisoners in correctional institutions (PVR ITU), in pre-trial detention centers (PVR SIZO), in temporary temporary detention facilities (PVR IVS). It is this document and about 300 instructions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (and not the Penitentiary Committee of the RSFSR or the Penitentiary Code of the Russian Federation) that regulate life in places of detention in great detail and establish many norms and restrictions that are not even mentioned in the legislation.
PVS
(o) - Presidium of the Supreme Council.
First mover
(t) - a prisoner with no prison experience, arrested for the first time.
Rooster
- 1) The Rooster is a passive homosexual.
2) One of the omitted synonyms, the word is a terrible insult and is taboo to an even greater extent than goat (see the corresponding article). Prisoners try not to use all derivatives of rooster (cocked, petya, cockerel, cockerel, etc.), as well as related words (chicken coop, bird, hen, comb, etc.), so as not to “get into the unknown” . This also applies to those who are omitted, who prefer to use the euphemism offended when calling themselves.
PCT
(o) - a cell-type room, an internal prison of a colony in which persistent violators of the detention regime are kept. PKT cells are usually located in a separate building together with the punishment cell and are fenced off from the rest of the penitentiary colony's territory by a fence. Prisoners placed in the PCT are limited in some rights. According to the Law of the Russian Federation “On Amendments and Additions to the Correctional Labor Code of the RSFSR, the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and the Criminal Procedure Code of the RSFSR” dated June 12, 1992, the total sentence of the PCT should not exceed 6 months. As of July 1, 1997, this restriction was lifted.
The former name of the PKT - BUR (maximum security barracks) - is still used among prisoners.
PMS
(c) - production and mass section.
Support
(t) - the second-highest status informal leader in the cell. It could also be a criminal. In the press chamber there is an assistant to the chief press operator.
Decoy
- see Mother Hen.
Snow thief
- a false thief, a person who declares himself a thief, but does not adhere to the correct concepts and pursues his own narrow egoistic goals.
Band
- in the document. The red stripe on the cover of a prisoner's personal file means “prone to escape.” When such a person comes into the zone, the administration must put him under special surveillance.
Striped
(t) - especially dangerous recidivist (OOR). According to the striped clothing that the OOR is required to wear. See also mansion, ITC.
Striped mode, striped zone
- see Mansion.
Polish thieves
- some meanings: thieves who have departed from the “correct life”; professional thieves who are not and have not been members of any groups; twisted thieves, i.e. thieves who are at enmity with thieves in law with the approval of the camp administration or under its leadership. The prison world explains the origin of the phrase “Polish thief” literally: these are the ideological descendants of thieves who came to Russia from Poland back in the days when Poland was part of the Russian Empire. According to J. Rossi (see "Handbook of the Gulag"), "the Polish thief has nothing in common with Poland." The mythology of the prison world also connects the decline of its morals with the invasion of the “Polish thieves” and their activities.
Pardon
(t) - a petition for pardon or the decision of the courts on pardon itself.
Settlement, settlement
(t) - colony-settlement. See ITC.
Rule
(t) - analysis of the conflict between prisoners according to the law, correct concepts. According to the journal: "The trial of a comrade (in the environment of thieves)." See also disassembly.
Correct zone, prison
(t) - ITU or pre-trial detention center, the shadow life of which goes in accordance with the correct concepts and prison law. The presence or absence of correct order in a particular penitentiary institution or part of it is determined by the personal qualities of the authorities who have real power. In institutions for young children or first-time children, correct order is practically impossible due to the lack of authorities who have sufficient life and prison experience, as well as experience in resolving conflicts in a non-violent way. Lawlessness often flourishes here, the priority of formal norms snatched from prison law over its meaning, the prevalence of wild and meaningless rules. For example, a ban on carrying a spoon in the top pocket of a robe, putting a bitten piece of bread in a pocket, a ban on wearing red clothes, etc. It is characteristic that the general regime (ITU for first-timers) is called special by the prisoners themselves.
The lack of correct order, lawlessness in correctional institutions for repeat offenders is often associated with the activities of operational services, which prefer to support controlled authorities or to impose the power of their agents among thieves and thieves, and use the most cruel and immoral methods of dealing with correct authorities who do not give in to pressure and do not go to cooperate with the cops. It is clear that among the controlled authorities there are more people with very low moral qualities and those who, demagogically using the norms of prison law, are concerned primarily with their own well-being. See correct concepts, prison law, authority, thieves, thieves.
Correct
(t) - 1) Fair, honest, respected, authoritative, etc.
2) The highest degree of evaluation of a person (a good man, a criminal, a prisoner), a group of people (a good house, a zone, a prison, a family, etc.), a social phenomenon (the right order, etc.).
3) A prisoner who adheres to correct concepts.
Correct Concepts
(t) - a system of informal norms and rules operating in such informal groups of prisoners as men and thieves. They are both an ethical imperative for prisoners and a means of resisting the administration of the correctional facility. They are supported, shared, and recognized by the majority of prisoners, which can be explained by their proximity to the norms, values and attitudes of traditional culture. They declare, for example, an uncompromising attitude towards denunciation, proclaim the primacy of the general interest over the private, brotherhood between prisoners (see brotherhood, family), assistance to those who find themselves in difficult situations (see common fund), justice, protect prisoners from arbitrariness through prohibition to take away anything without a legal (within the framework of prison law) basis, prohibit bringing charges against a person without evidence of his offense and generally insulting him, require strict thoughtfulness and restraint in words (see watch the broom, goat, rooster). The spread of correct concepts and prison law, their support by the majority of prisoners can also be explained by the fact that the official law requires them to act immorally, from the point of view of traditional culture, (informing, betrayal, hypocrisy, obtaining personal gain by infringing on the rights of the community and most its members, etc.) See also the correct concepts, thieves, men, goats, lowered ones, prison law.
Correct order
(t) - about the situation in a camp, cell, prison, where the majority of prisoners adhere to the correct concepts.
Prapora
(t) - this is how prisoners’ letters may refer to not only employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the rank of “warrant officer,” but also other representatives of the administration of places of deprivation (or restriction) of freedom who are directly responsible for supervision.
Present
(t) - bring charges of violating informal norms and rules existing in the prisoner community. The reason for the presentation may be an unexpectedly emerging incriminating fact relating to the distant past, sometimes even to the free, pre-camp life of the prisoner, as well as a circumstance that is not at all the result of a deliberate independent choice: for example, the very fact of living in Moscow or Leningrad, serving in the internal affairs troops, etc.
Presentation(t) - accusing a prisoner of any compromising acts or actions that do not comply with prison law.
Press
(t, s) - “breaking off” a prisoner, a way to suppress his personality, to make him completely controllable. Sometimes the press is constant psychological pressure on the prisoner (“snake press”). See also press chamber.
Press chamber, press hut
(t, s) - a cell in a temporary detention center, pre-trial detention center, covered, PKT, punishment cell, in which prisoners specially selected by the administration torture, torment, rape those who are put in front of them, in order to achieve something specific from them, for example, to give the necessary testimony to the investigator, find out where the common money is kept, sign a statement renouncing thieves' ideas (see withdrawal, etc.). Press cameras still exist today.
Presser
(t, s) - a prisoner who agreed to perform, on the instructions of an employee of a correctional facility or an investigator, the function of an executioner, a torturer of other prisoners in a press chamber. Usually there is a note in the presser's personal or operational file that serves as an indication to the operator that the prisoner can be used appropriately. In addition, such a mark prevents the press operator from being placed during transfer along with other prisoners. Exposing the press operator is fraught with cruel reprisals for him.
Press prison
(t) - a prison-type institution in which a significant part of the cells are used for the press. See White Swan, breaking, press chamber.
Priblatnenny
(t) - a candidate for thieves, striving to be accepted into the group of thieves and demonstrating commitment to the correct concepts.
Confession
(r) - a cell or department of a pre-trial detention center in which prisoners declared insane or mentally ill are kept. Prisoners in these cells or sections enjoy a number of benefits compared to ordinary prisoners. They are allowed to correspond, receive more packages, receive hospital meals, take longer walks, etc.
Recognized
(r) - a prisoner who has been declared insane after a psychiatric examination. See also fool.
Gags, gags, grips
- various ways of provoking a person in order to put him in a funny position, make him angry, spill the beans, give some information about himself and generally express himself in some way. A prisoner can be provoked both by other prisoners (see registration) and by administration employees. These are opera (nepotism) gadgets and grips. See nepotism mutka, nepotism weed.
Sweating
- the same as the six, only a little higher in rank, since the six is the one who serves anyone, and the one who sweats - the thieves.
Continued
(t) - prison corridor.
Industrial zone
(O), wetting
(t) - industrial zone of the colony. The territory of the colony is divided into separate sections - zones: residential zone, industrial zone (production facilities are located here). Between these zones there is a fence, rows of barbed wire, and between them there is a corridor, sometimes shot through by security soldiers.
Registration
(t) - initiation, that is, the rite of introduction of a newcomer into the prison community. Registration is most important in the cells of young children and general regime prisoners. The neophyte is asked questions, or he is put in situations that require intelligence, strong-willed mobilization, and quick decision-making. All this aims to clearly demonstrate the real inner content of the initiate’s personality, the degree of his independence, reliability, etc. The place in the informal hierarchy of prisoners depends on successful registration. And vice versa - those who fail the test often end up in the caste of untouchables, outcasts who occupy the most shameful and powerless position in the prison community. In some pre-trial detention centers, including Matrosskaya Tishina, persons aged 16 to 30 years are subject to registration, while in other places there are no age limits at all.
Rogue
(t) - a thief who has departed from the thieves’ law, but unlike the bitch, has not betrayed it. Usually enjoys authority in the prison community. May be present on gangways.
Vocational school
- vocational school.
Navel
- aka ass, dubak, guard - warden
Five minutes
(c) - a superficial, short (sometimes less than five minutes) psychiatric examination directly in a prison or courtroom. During the five-minute period, a decision is usually made: to send the person under investigation for a more thorough examination (for example, to the Serbsky Institute) or to declare the prisoner normal.
Disassembly
(t) - 1) Any clarification of relations between prisoners or groups of prisoners.
2) Resolution of conflicts that arose between prisoners or groups of prisoners according to the rules provided for by the prison law or the law of thieves (in the case where the conflict arose between thieves or authoritative thieves close to them). Such a showdown, in contrast to a regular conflict (showdown 1), is sometimes called the correct one, the rule. The role of mediators or “judges” is usually played by authoritative prisoners, thieves. In serious cases, the person found guilty (the defendant) is given over to the mercy of the right one (recognized as the right person at the showdown). He can receive from the defendant as a “worthy” or as a “scoundrel” (the qualification of the defendant is the prerogative of the disassembly, which can transfer it to the right one). In the first case, the defendant must publicly admit his guilt and repent. The right one can lightly hit the defendant, but it doesn’t hurt so that he only “feels a brotherly hand.” In the second case, you can do whatever you want to the defendant, including kill him. The rightist can, following the verdict of a showdown, demand money and things from the guilty person - here he, it would seem, has complete freedom of choice. However, depending on how fair the sanction chosen by the right is, how much it corresponds to the offense, how generous and not vindictive the “winner of the case” is, those around him will form an opinion about him, which ultimately affects his status in the community. Showdowns between thieves or authoritative thieves take place according to other rules provided for by the law of thieves. For example, a thief cannot be hit even in a “brotherly” way. This sanction is clear: the thief is deprived of his title. Anyone who has been unfairly subjected to such a sanction and who has not recognized the legality of depriving him of the title of thief is obliged to kill the one who hit him.
Prison law provides the defendant with a right of appeal. If a showdown takes place, for example, in a prison cell, the defendant may ask an authority of a higher status (and sometimes the main authority of the prison) to intervene in the resolution of the showdown, or send a letter to the appropriate cell outlining the essence of the conflict and a request to intervene. According to correct concepts, such an appeal suspends the execution of the sanction.
3) A group of prisoners taking part in analyzing the conflict and making a decision.
cutting
- here: reduction of term.
Promotion
(t, s) - receiving a second additional term in the camp for a new crime by court decision.
Registrar
- an employee of the security unit of the correctional facility, which monitors the prisoners’ compliance with the internal regulations of the correctional facility.
RMZ
- mechanical repair plant.
Wet the horns
- serve the entire sentence without attempting to escape.
ROP
(c) - regime-operational work.
Steer
- manage a zone or cell, a prison.
Ryabyi
(t) - the same as the mansion, striped.
Amateur organizations of convicts
(o) - official structures, organizations of prisoners created by the administration. The RSFSR Correctional Code states that these organizations are created with the “goal of developing collectivism skills among convicts... encouraging their useful initiative, as well as using the influence of the collective on the correction and re-education of convicts.” Such organizations include various sections (SPP, sanitary, industrial, cultural and educational, etc.), as well as all kinds of “councils” (colony staff, detachment). The heads of all these sections and councils are appointed by the administration. See sections, SPP, activist, goat.
Get out
- run away, leave.
Brother-in-law
(t) - a candidate for the caste of thieves, who, however, has not yet been recognized at the meeting as a thief in law. Brothers-in-law occupy second place (after thieves in law) in the hierarchy of thieves.
SVP
(o) - internal order section - an “amateur” organization of convicts,” whose members actively cooperate with the administration. The modern name is SPP.
Pass
(t) - issue, convey; for example, inform the prison administration about an impending escape.
Donate the skin
(t) - submit a report (denunciation) to the administration of the correctional facility about violation of discipline and conditions of detention to other prisoners. This report may serve as the basis for punishing the violator.
Section
(t, s) - 1) living room in a barracks or, in official language, a dormitory. The section can accommodate from 20 to 200 people.
2) The generalized name of the so-called. “amateur organizations of convicts” or “self-government bodies of convicts”.
Family
(t) - a group of 3-5 prisoners (sometimes more) connected by trusting relationships. Family members provide each other with help and support in everyday life, but also bear responsibility for each other.
Gray
(t) is a synonym for men.
Get on wheels
- to be on the run, to hide
LED
And SR
(o) - see GUITU, GUIN.
Pre-trial detention center
(o) - pre-trial detention center. An institution intended for the detention of arrested persons in respect of whom the court verdict has not entered into legal force. In pre-trial detention centers, as a rule, there are separate cells or sections for women, minors, those arrested for the first time and repeat offenders, patients sentenced to death, as well as for prisoners being transferred to a correctional facility. The pre-trial detention center also contains convicts awaiting transfer or those left for economic work in the pre-trial detention center. The pre-trial detention center has a department for disciplinary punishment (punishment cell).
Keep an eye on the broom
(t) - do not allow offensive expressions or individual swear words into the conversation.
Looking
(t) - In the event that there is no thief in a prison or colony, the world of thieves can send its representative there, who will ensure that the prisoners comply with the prison law and the thieves’ “orders” of the superintendent. In this case, the beholder is provided with a “mandate”, i.e. a note containing the corresponding order and which the observer presents to the authoritative thieves. If the zone is red, controlled by wool, etc., the supervisor must himself select the right prisoners as assistants and take power in the correctional facility. The watcher can be appointed as a thief, leaving for freedom or on the stage.
St. Petersburg
(o) - a special psychiatric hospital. A penitentiary institution for prisoners declared insane at the time of committing a crime and having serious mental disorders, as well as for prisoners who received serious mental illness while serving their sentence. Those convicted of serious crimes and repeat offenders are sent to St. Petersburg by court decision. Persons who have committed minor crimes for the first time may be sent by court decision to regular psychiatric hospitals. In 1988, SPB were transferred from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health.
Special contingent
(c) - this is how employees of correctional facilities and pre-trial detention centers call prisoners.
Special commandant's office
- a penitentiary institution for offenders “conditionally sentenced with mandatory labor” and “released on parole with mandatory labor” (i.e. prisoners of general, enhanced and strict regime penal colonies, for whom the sentence has been reduced by court decision). In the special commandant's office, the prisoner is required to live in a special dormitory and work at the enterprise indicated to him (often with harmful or difficult working conditions). Most often, those sentenced to this type of punishment are sent to regions far from their permanent place of residence.
In 1993, this type of punishment was abolished, such as sending a suspended sentence to a special commandant's office with mandatory involvement in labor.
See chemistry.
Special, special corridor, special corps
(t, s) - a section of a pre-trial detention center for persons under investigation, who, on the instructions of the investigator or the officer, should be kept in conditions of stricter isolation from other prisoners, to prevent contacts with accomplices or harmful influence on other prisoners, sometimes to ensure the safety of this prisoner (see. , for example, a press operator). The cells of this department are designed for a smaller number of places (from one to 10-12) than ordinary cells, which can accommodate several dozen people.
Specially
(t) - general regime ITC. It is called so because of the cruel relations between prisoners prevailing in the penitentiary colony of this regime.
Special detention center
- institutions for “persons of no fixed abode” or those suspected of committing a crime whose identity must be established.
Special school, special vocational school
(o) - see bark beetle.
SPP
(o) - crime prevention section, one of the “amateur prisoner organizations” (formerly called SVP - internal order section), by enrolling in which a prisoner acquires the status of a goat. Sometimes the administration of correctional institutions forces prisoners to join the SPP forcibly. This is done by the hands of goats who torture those who refuse to write an application to join the SPP. Attempts to leave the caste of goats, as a rule, are unsuccessful. Such traitors may be placed in a cell with prisoners who adhere to prison law and supposedly “accidentally” informed of this person’s camp past. After this, the former goat (activist) may be put down or killed. These are just some of the latent ways in which the prison administration is fighting the prison law. See also broom, ban, bedside table.
Ask
(t) - to punish a prisoner after a showdown for lawlessness or violation of prison law.
Go crazy, crazy thief
- see Bitch.
Stand on the gate
- open and close passage from one local zone to another. See Local, local tower.
Strohach
(t) - strict regime penal colony.
Strict regime
- see Strohach.
Bitch
(t) - 1) According to ZhR: “a thief... who violated the law of thieves.” In the late 40s - early 50s, a bloody massacre took place in the camps, known as the “war of bitches and thieves” (see, for example, ZhR, as well as “Essays on the Underworld” by V. Shalamov, Don, no. 1, 1989 g., p. 99).
2) A broken thief or criminal who agreed to openly cooperate with the administration of the ITU. The “successful” one, who has become the goat of the thieves, is usually distinguished by extreme cruelty and sadism towards other prisoners; upon release, many of the “snooched” commit savage crimes.
Rusk
(t) - 1) A prisoner who uses someone else’s first and last name for the purpose of earlier release. Currently rare.
2) A prisoner posing as a criminal or even a thief (usually an agent or provocateur of an operational unit). Hiding one's past (for example, the fact of being in the caste of lowlifes or goats).
Bitch zone
- a zone where screwed-up thieves rule (rule) (see bitch, thief, thieves), i.e. who entered into an alliance with the administration, which is strictly prohibited by prison law. As a rule, such thieves, trying to achieve their own goals, especially oppress prisoners and commit lawlessness.
Skhodnyak
(t) - something like a permanent council of thieves in an ITU, which sorts out conflicts between prisoners, issues related to the life of prisoners, calling strikes, preparing a riot, changing some of the norms in force among prisoners of a given ITU, appealing to thieves, thieves of others ITU or in the wild, etc. See also prison law, thieves.
Meeting of thieves
(t) - a periodically assembled collegial body of thieves in law of a separate region or several regions. Makes decisions on the punishment of violators of the law of thieves, resolves disputes that arise, appoints overseers of individual prisons, accepts worthy candidates for thieves, etc. A gathering of thieves can also occur in prison institutions. To do this, thieves from different correctional facilities can use different methods to get to the prison hospital, where it is easier to arrange such a gathering. More important issues concerning, for example, clarifications in the interpretation of the law, joint actions of various groups are resolved at meetings held in the wild. See also thief, thieves' orders, thieves' law.
Sepepeshniks(t) - members of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
Tankman
- the same as a fighter, bull, gladiator, athlete. (See Fighter, Gladiator).
wheelbarrow
- take note of a person’s misdemeanor and then, without punishing him specifically for this, blackmail him with the possibility of detection and punishment.
Quiet Man
- a hidden informer, a lack of initiative informer or goat, not a very zealous activist.
Torpedo
- 1) Bodyguard;
2) - a prisoner who carries out a death sentence passed by the gang against another prisoner. Often a torpedo is sent on this mission from one camp to another.
Hold, load into hold, hold
- place in a punishment cell or PKT. The expression apparently arose because these rooms are quite often located in basements and are dark and cold.
Nightstand
(t, s) - 1) A post at the entrance to the barracks, where they usually place a bedside table with various documents and a local telephone connected to the watch and headquarters. According to the official procedure, a specially appointed duty officer must be on duty near the bedside table, who is obliged to report to all correctional facility employees entering the barracks about the number of prisoners in the barracks, etc. In case of any violations of order, the duty officer must report this to the management of the ITK or DPNK by local telephone. Usually prisoners from among the goats are appointed as guards.
2) One of the ways that the administration of the penitentiary institution fights the prison law. According to correct concepts, being on duty at the bedside table (see paragraph 1 of this article) is considered unacceptable for men and thieves. Anyone who agrees to such duty automatically acquires the status of a goat. The administration sometimes begins to force all prisoners to be on duty at the bedside table in order of priority. For refusing such duty, the prisoner is severely punished by the administration and exposed to the press. This is done with a clear understanding of what such duty threatens for prisoners from among the peasants and thieves. See also prohibition, SPP, broom.
Prison law
- a set of informal norms and rules operating in the prison community. Unlike the thieves' law, on the basis of which it was formed in the 60s (when there were virtually no thieves and thieves left in the correctional institutions), the prison law includes all prisoners within its scope; defines its own norms, prohibitions, taboos for each group (suit) of prisoners, regulates relations between representatives of these groups, and introduces mechanisms for resolving conflicts between prisoners. All conflicts must be resolved according to prison law through showdowns and appeals to authorities. The authorities are most often people from the thieves caste (this is another proof that the middle caste - men not only spontaneously formed into some kind of social whole, but took the thieves caste, which already had its own developed law and order, as a model).
In recent years, there is evidence of the gradual displacement of prison law by new orders based on corruption, the merging of the criminal world with the administration of penal institutions, and the power of money. According to our assessment, this trend can lead to an increase in organized crime, an increase in the proportion of violent and unrelated crimes, a real deterioration in the situation of prisoners, destabilization of the work of correctional institutions, and, to some extent, destabilization of the situation in society.
See also the correct concepts, thieves, men, goats, omitted.
Jail
- 1) (t) The general name of all places of detention, also used in ordinary language.
2) (t) The general name for all prison-type institutions, including indoor and pre-trial prisons (SIZO). The prison often receives an unofficial name based on its location (Butyrki, Lefortovo, Krasnaya Presnya - in Moscow, Lukyanovka - in Kyiv, etc.).
3. (o) Prison-type institution for convicts. See Covered.
ATC
- Department of Internal Affairs. Regional division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Angular
(t) - thieves, who is an informal leader in a section, barracks, or a gang member appointed to this role. As a rule, it occupies an honorable lower place in the corner of the sleeping area in the barracks.
parole
(o) - conditional early release from punishment. The final decision on parole is made by the visiting session of the district court at the location of the correctional institution. There are two types of parole, the first of which simply involves release with the opportunity to return to your place of residence, the second (parole with mandatory involvement in work) is associated with transfer to a special commandant's office. In 1993, the second type of punishment was abolished.
UID
- Department of Correctional Affairs. See GUIN.
UITU (o) - management of ITU. A structural subdivision of the regional (regional, territorial) department of internal affairs, which is in charge of the ITUs located on its territory (except for forest ones). Currently renamed into UIN (Department for the Execution of Punishments).
Criminal Code of the RSFSR
- The Criminal Code of the RSFSR, which was in force on the territory of the RSFSR, and then the Russian Federation from January 1, 1961 to December 31, 1996. Since January 1, 1997, a new criminal code has been in force in Russia - the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
ULITU
- Management of forestry ITU, regional division of GULITU.
Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR
- Code of Criminal Procedure.
Urka
- an old name for a criminal, now almost out of use.
Amplifier
(t) - enhanced-regime correctional complex.
Breaking plywood
(t) - breaking a person’s chest, one of the methods of torturing young children.
Get stuffed (get stuffed)
- 1. Find yourself in a funny position. 2. Be caught in a crime. 3. Be compromised.
Friar
(t) - According to ZhR: “A person who does not belong to the world of thieves.” Currently, the word fraer in many regions has acquired the exact opposite meaning: a prisoner close to thieves, thieves. For example, to be a fraer means to imitate thieves in your behavior; trump fraer - thieves. It also retains the same meaning in some words, for example, to frustrate - to make a mistake, an act that is wrong from the point of view of the prisoner (but not the free one).
The old meaning of the word fraer is now conveyed by the word "loch".
Fray
(t) - see fraer.
Lb
(t) - reduced food allowance under a strict prison regime, including a ration of bread weighing 400 g (per day).
Bullshit
- 1) back;
2) lie.
Sweatshirt
- a prisoner who behaves unworthily, most often in relation to the payment of gambling debts, for which he is always in danger of being demoted. Sometimes, having lost, he agrees on one more try, agreeing to go down if he loses: this is called “playing bullshit.”
Tail
- a prisoner’s offense, for which he evades punishment, trying to move to another barracks, to another zone, where no one knows about his offense. Information about his offense usually follows the offender. “A long tail behind a bunk” - several offenses or one major one, which is hidden by the offender. Sometimes (when the offense is already known and convicted) the tail is a sentence in absentia imposed in accordance with the prison law.
Hut
(t) - camera.
Chemist
(t) - a prisoner sent for chemistry.
Chemistry
(t) is an unofficial name for one of the types of criminal punishment. Officially, it is called conditional early release (PAROL) or conditional sentence with mandatory involvement in work. This type of punishment is associated with transfer to a special commandant's office, where the prisoner is required to live in a special dormitory and work at the enterprise indicated to him. In 1992-93 this type of punishment in most countries b. The USSR was canceled due to the collapse of the economy.
Khipezh (kipezh)
- unrest, unrest, rebellion started by prisoners against the administration, or by the administration against prisoners.
Master
(t) - head of a prison or colony.
Khozbanda
- see Household services.
Housekeeping service
(o, t) - prisoners performing housekeeping work in places of deprivation of liberty (cooks, “balanders” - food distributors and others). The same name is given to prisoners who perform these duties in a pre-trial detention center and serve their sentence there in accordance with Article 16 of the Correctional Labor Code of the RSFSR - “Leaving convicts in a pre-trial detention center or prison for housekeeping work.” Household servants are one of those categories of prisoners towards whom the camp community treats with a greater or lesser degree of hostility.
Businessman
- a prisoner convicted of economic crimes. In the 80s there were many of them in places of detention and they formed a noticeable stratum, distinguished by their behavior. Business owners showed considerable flexibility: without denying the prison law, they often went beyond its scope, taking on business positions, i.e. becoming goats, and used their knowledge and economic experience to benefit the administration, but at the same time they tried to somehow help improve their reputation among the prisoners. See also Tsekhovik.
Colored
(t) - 1) Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, sometimes - everyone who serves in the army wears shoulder straps. The same name is given to former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, prosecutors, judges, high-ranking civil servants, etc., who are kept in pre-trial detention centers and correctional facilities. They are placed in separate cells in remand prisons, and there are separate correctional centers for them, which is done to prevent reprisals against people of color by other prisoners. There are cases when an investigator extracts any testimony from people of color under the threat of being placed in a cell for ordinary prisoners. The threat of lynching most often turns out to be much worse than any criminal punishment.
2) In some regions, the word colored is used in its former (30-50s) meaning. According to ZHR: "thieves or thief in law, urka."
Centryak
(t) - thieves and their entourage.
Tsekhovik
(t) - 1) An entrepreneur who used the opportunities of the state economy for personal enrichment and, as a rule, to expand “his” production. The synonym is “shadow worker”, i.e. representative of the so-called “shadow economy”.
2) Convicted of entrepreneurial activity - usually under Article 93.1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR "Theft of state or public property on an especially large scale." In 1993, despite the legalization of private entrepreneurial and commercial activities, many “guild workers” continued to serve their sentences.
Black
(t) - see thieves.
Black zone, black suit
- black suit - thieves; the black zone is a zone controlled by thieves.
Crap
(t) - a person occupying one of the lowest levels in the informal hierarchy of prisoners (below - only pigs and lowered ones). The devil is distinguished by his lack of consistency in his moral principles, irresponsibility in behavior and unkempt appearance.
CHIS
(c) - “part of the quartermaster service”, a division of the camp administration, which is responsible, among other things, for providing prisoners with clothing, shoes, bedding, etc.
Chushok
(t) - a representative of a group with a low status in the informal hierarchy of prisoners (only those who are omitted are lower in status). They are forced to do dirty work, they are robbed of common funds and minors, and their things are taken away from them. Most often, these are people unadapted (for various reasons) to life in prison, unable to resist, stand up for themselves, and indifferent to everything. Their main distinguishing feature is their neglected appearance. The word chushok is more often used among young children.
Wool, woolen
(t) - 1) Prisoners who present themselves as authoritative, thieves, but in fact they are lawless, acting in their own interests or at the direction of the administration.
2) Thieves are lawless.
SCHIZO
(o) - punishment cell. The department of the correctional facility where the cells for violators of the detention regime are located. A person placed in a punishment cell is significantly limited in his rights. Until 1988, in the punishment cell there was a reduced food standard (starvation torture). In addition, all of the prisoners’ clothing was taken away and they were given only a light cotton suit; they were not allowed to go out for walks, nor were they given bed linen or a mattress, letters, parcels, or parcels. In punishment cells, harsh conditions are usually created (cold in winter, stuffy in summer), conducive to the disease of tuberculosis. According to the Law of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of June 12, 1992, many of these restrictions were abolished. A maximum period of detention in a punishment cell has also been introduced: a single placement in a punishment cell is up to 15 days, the total sentence for a year is no more than 2 months. However, even after this, placement in a punishment cell is one of the most severe punishments. By order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs? 13 of January 15, 1993, in the punishment cell, PKT, and punishment cells, a reduced nutritional standard was again introduced, which is contrary to current legislation, since the establishment of nutritional standards is the prerogative of the government of the Russian Federation.
The punishment cell is usually combined with the PKT, forming something like an internal prison of the ITU.
In some correctional institutions (usually in forests) there is a punishment cell with access to work, i.e. During the day, the prisoner works at his usual place, and after work he returns to the punishment cell. In this case, at least at work, the punished prisoner can have a smoke break, warm up, and get help from his family. There is also a worse scenario, when prisoners in a punishment cell are taken to work in working cells located in the same building.
Shkvarnoy
(t) - the same as omitted.
Shkonka, shkonar
(t) - bed. In the prison there is a bed, welded from metal pipes and strips, embedded in the floor; often two or three tiers. The size and capacity of the chambers are usually judged by the number of bunks.
Skin
- prisoner's jacket
Skin
(t) - denunciation, report on another prisoner (see skinning).
Shmon
(t, s) - search.
Shnyr
(t) - 1) A prisoner who has taken (sometimes under pressure from other prisoners) the responsibility of cleaning a cell, barracks, industrial premises, and performing work that prisoners are required to do in turn. For this work, he receives a certain payment from the prisoners themselves in food, smoke, and money.
2) Prisoners occupying the positions of orderlies (attendants, guards, cleaners) in certain structural units of correctional institutions (punishment isolation wards, PKT, headquarters, visiting rooms, detachments, etc.). Shnyr is considered a goat by his very position.
Banging
- to spy for someone else, most often for the benefit of the administration.
Headquarters
(c) - the premises of the penitentiary complex, in which the offices of the colony employees (chief, deputies, operational workers, etc.) are located. Often the medical unit is located in the same room.
Fur coat(t, s) - special relief coating on the walls of a prison cell. According to the official version, the walls are covered with fur coats to prevent prisoners from writing on the walls; another version: so that they don’t commit suicide by smashing their heads against the wall. According to the prisoners, the fur coat does not serve either purpose. But in cells with fur coats, no disinfection will destroy insects (bugs, spiders, woodlice, etc.). A fur coat mentally suppresses a person, makes his life in prison even more unbearable: the walls are prickly, you can’t lean on him or run your hand through him...
Stage
(t) - a room for prisoners newly arrived at the colony (transporters), where they are kept in isolation from other prisoners of the correctional facility for several days. This time is used not only for medical checks (mainly for infectious diseases) of new arrivals, to find out their profession and qualifications, but also to identify negatively minded convicts, as well as to break those who adhere to the correct concepts. See also prohibition, press, SPP.
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