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This book is the first of its kind that brings together human geography and the sociology of punishment to explore the relationship between distance and the punishment in contemporary Russia. Using established penological and geographical theories, the book presents in-depth empirical research to show how the experiences of women prisoners are shaped by the distances that the Russian penal service sends prisoners to serve their sentences. Its most eye-catching feature is its use ofinterviews conducted by the authors and their research team with adult and juvenile women prisoners, ex-prisoners

Women prisoners --- Women political prisoners --- Political prisoners --- Prisoners

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Human rights --- Political prisoners --- Political prisoners --- Suffering --- Torture --- Abuse of --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Political aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects

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In 1999, the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, leading dissident Jiang Qisheng was given a four-year sentence for inviting the Chinese people to light candles to honor the victims. Drawn with indignant intensity from Jiang's time in prison, his memoirs offer compelling observations of two of the three modern, "civilized" Beijing jails in which he was held. Along with intriguing vignettes of his fellow prisoners, Jiang describes both brutally dehumanizing conditions and rare moments of unexpected kindness. Prisoners, used as slave labor, become "skinned" thro

Dissenters --- Political prisoners --- Jiang, Qisheng, --- China --- History --- Politics and government --- 江棋生,

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Human rights --- Political prisoners --- Political prisoners --- Human rights workers --- Human rights workers --- Political persecution --- Torture --- Extrajudicial executions --- Crimes against --- Violence against --- Crimes against --- Violence against --- United States --- Cuba --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations

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Human rights --- Torture --- Disappeared persons --- Political prisoners --- China --- United States --- Military policy. --- Economic policy --- Foreign relations --- Relations