Inside A Siberian Prison

Inmates walk in the yard at the high-security prison facility.

Walking in the exercise yard

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

Prisoners work in a metal shop. Others are employed building furniture or sewing clothes.

A security officer stands next to an inmate serving dinner to other prisoners inside a maximum-security zone.

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

Boris Kovalyov, 32, plays an accordion as he prepares for an interprison talent contest. Kovalyov was sentenced to eight years in a high-security prison camp for drug trafficking but was released 2 1/2 years early in May 2013 for good behavior and participation in sports and cultural activities.

A prisoner works in the bath and laundry facility.

An Orthodox priest and an inmate stand in front of an Orthodox church on the prison grounds.

A priest leads the service for Orthodox Easter at the small church inside the prison complex.