Who Lives Well in Russia: How Prisons Are Organized in Modern Russia

The author captures the state and situation in Russian prisons during the year 2022. The conditions of detention for inmates, prison medicine, nutrition, regimen, the situation in cells, visits, transportation, and many other details from the lives of prisoners are described in her new book by the famous human rights defender and journalist Eva Merkachyova.
Each page reflects the human destinies not only of the inmates but also of the victims of their crimes and law enforcement officers. The author also writes about women's colonies, about "red zones," where employees of special services serve their sentences, about famous inmates of notorious pre-trial detention centers, about glaring cases of abuse of office, about torture and mistreatment, about the selfless work of human rights defenders trying to improve the conditions of detention for prisoners, and about the legendary Andrei Babushkin.
The book contains a lot of statistics, little-known facts, and real stories.
The appendix to the main text is a unique brief "guide" to Moscow prisons.
The concluding part of the book includes a letter from Eva Merkachyova to the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin and his response.