Inside Siberia's Prisons

A general view shows one of the sectors of a high-security male prison camp outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk

An officer enters a zone where especially strict conditions are imposed inside a high-security male prison camp

An officer searches an inmate at a control point between work and residential zones at the prison.

Inmates work in a metal processing shop.

An employee (L) and inmates load wooden toilets onto a truck.

A security officer stands next to an inmate serving dinner to prisoners, inside a zone where especially strict conditions are imposed at the prison camp.

An inmate serves prisoners dinner.

An inmate receives a portion of food while others stand in line.

Inmates watch TV inside a temporary cell for recently arrived prisoners.

 Inmate Boris Kovalyov, 32, plays an accordion as he prepares for an inter-prison talent contest. Kovalyov was sentenced to eight years in a high-security prison camp for drug trafficking, but was released two and a half years early, on May 10, 2013, for good behaviour and participation in sports and cultural activities.

An inmate gathers his possessions inside a temporary cell for recently arrived prisoners.

An inmate works inside a bath and laundry building.

An inmate washes his hands. The sign reads "Wash your hands before eating."

Inmates walk inside an enclosure at the high-security male prison camp.

Inmates walk at thehigh-security male prison camp.

An Orthodox priest (R) and an inmate stand in front of an Orthodox church at a high-security male prison camp outside the prison.

 An Orthodox priest (L) leads the Easter service during the week after Orthodox Easter, as he stands among inmates inside an Orthodox church at the prison camp.