Women In Russian Penal Colonies

A female prison guard watches over inmates in the yard of a prison camp in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

Inmates of a prison camp for women are seen through the razor wire before a "Lady Spring 2009" beauty contest in Selo Gornoye.

Inmates walk with their children as a guard watches in the courtyard of a "children's home," located inside a female prison camp in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

A detention center in Chita.