1991 Photo Contest

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Daily Life - 2nd prize

Life in a women’s prison camp in Perm, 1,300 km east of Moscow. Prisoners wash themselves and their uniform in the sauna once or twice a week.

Life in a women’s prison camp in Perm, 1,300 km east of Moscow. The prison has a nursery, and children up to 18 months are allowed to stay with their mothers. For this woman's child, the time has come to leave the prison.

Life in a women’s prison camp in Perm, 1,300 km east of Moscow. A woman at breakfast, wrapped up against the cold.

Life in a women’s prison camp in Perm, 1,300 km east of Moscow. The only prisoners who are kept in cells are those sentenced to solitary confinement.

Life in a women’s prison camp in Perm, 1,300 km east of Moscow. Some prisoners have attempted suicide more than once.

Life in a women’s prison camp in Perm, 1,300 km east of Moscow.

Life in a women’s prison camp in Perm, 1,300 km east of Moscow.

Life in a women’s prison camp in Perm, 1,300 km east of Moscow.

Life in a women’s prison camp in Perm, 1,300 km east of Moscow.

Life in a women’s prison camp in Perm, 1,300 km east of Moscow.

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1991 Photo Contest - Daily Life - 2nd prize
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Jane Evelyn Atwood

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01 February, 1990

Life in a women’s prison camp in Perm, 1,300 km east of Moscow. The only prisoners who are kept in cells are those sentenced to solitary confinement.

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