Social Center for Assistance in Reforming Criminal Justice
The Social Center for Assistance in Reforming Criminal Justice in Moscow (profile and contact information
available here) has produced dozens of books, brochures and reports on problems relating to criminal justice and the rights of the detained and imprisoned. A partial list of recent publications follows:
- In Aid of Prisoners: How to Survive in a Soviet Prison (Krasnoyarsk, 1992), 192 pages. More than 30,000
copies of this book were distributed to prisoners and their families at no cost.
- Letters From the Zones (Moscow, 1992), 36 pages. Collections of letters from prisoners describing life and
conditions in prisons and camps around Russia.
- Tuberculosis in Russian Prisons and Camps (Moscow, 1992), 14 pages. In Russian and English.
- Prison Reform in Former Totalitarian Countries: Papers from the International Conference, Volumes 1
& 2 (Moscow, 1993), approximately 80 pages each. In Russian and English.
- Human Rights Abuses During Arrest and Detainment, Volume 1 (Moscow, 1994), 80 pages. In English
and Russian.
- Criminal Russia--Prisons and Camps. A 10-volume book series. For example: Volume 1, The Prison
World Through the Eyes of of a Political Prisoner (Moscow, 1993), 287 pages; Volume 2, Letters From
the Zones�End of the 1980�s (Moscow, 1993), 300 pages.
This article is from the January/February 1996 issue of
Civil Society ... East and West
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Last updated: May 2 1996
