Beef fenya passivation. Klikuhi convicts for thieves boys. What do they become

In places of deprivation of liberty for many decades, a clear division of prisoners into castes has formed. For representatives of each of them, depending on the position in the prison hierarchy, there are their own norms of behavior. One of the lowest categories are "devils" - half-slaves who do dirty work and do not have any authority among inmates.

Who is threatened

Typically, this caste includes prisoners who are psychologically weak, unable to stand up for themselves and prone to submission. "Devils", they are also "pigs", "snoots" or "horses" perform work in prison that is not customary for a normal prisoner. For example, wash clothes or sweep the floor. "Devil" cannot argue, they must do whatever they are told and listen to more authoritative prisoners "for fear."

In ordinary zones, "devils" live with "men" - unprofessional inmates who have committed a crime as a result of a tragic combination of circumstances, and are waiting for the end of the term to return to normal life. The "muzhiks" keep themselves evenly, representing the middle peasants in the prison. We can say that "devils" are the lowest type of "muzhiks".

watch yourself

Presumably, until the 80s, the caste of "devils" was called "pigs". “Chushki” are those who do not take care of themselves, rarely wash and dress sloppily. The fact is that hygiene in the prison environment is held in high esteem: to monitor both one's appearance and the cleanliness of the surrounding space should be in the order of things for any normal convict.

But getting a person to places of deprivation of liberty, especially if it happened for the first time, is a great stress for him. Under such conditions, it is very difficult for a psychologically weak person to maintain himself in proper order. Thoughts about life behind bars oppress the prisoner, the future frightens him. A person gives up and stops shaving, washing, brushing his teeth and performing other hygiene procedures.

A prisoner who puts an end to his appearance easily runs the risk of being in the "devils" category. In Russian prisons and colonies, there is an opinion that only a person who has lost willpower, one who has broken down under the blows of fate, stops taking care of himself.

In the harsh conditions of imprisonment, such a prisoner is considered a weakling, loses all respect from others and goes into the category of "pigs". Thus, the unwillingness to take care of one's appearance can easily lead a person to the very bottom of the prison hierarchy.

Almost "roosters"

In especially neglected cases, the “pigs” can be sent to live in a washbasin or toilet. The measure is extreme, and is used to prevent the spread of contagious diseases or insects.

The position of the "devils" is to a certain extent similar to the "cocks". "Rooster" is a passive homosexual used for sexual pleasures by more authoritative cellmates. They have no rights and do the dirtiest work that even "devils" don't do - washing toilets and maintaining garbage pits.

A presumptuous "devil" can easily become a "cock" "for this, cellmates can commit an act of sexual violence against him or, for example, simply brush his genitals over his lips.

"Snoops"

A special category of "devils" are "sneakers". Often, "sneaks" are assistants to more authoritative prisoners. Unlike roosters, you can talk and chifir with them, but you can’t ask for something serious.

It is worth noting that now the caste of "devils" is gradually becoming a thing of the past. For the most part, it is preserved only in places of detention for juvenile offenders - the so-called "youngsters". But there are already their own rules, to some extent different from adult prisons.

In our prison world there are several castes, that is, groups of prisoners of different "dignity". There are four main castes, and there can be much more intermediate castes in each zone (by the way, among the convicts, this is exactly what they say: in prison, in the zone).

The first, highest caste - thieves; the second, the most numerous - men; the third, more or less large (depending on the zone) - goats; fourth, lower - roosters, outcasts. I don’t know if the outcasts can be considered a separate caste, but this is already an academic question. And we will assume that there are four castes. Let's start at the top.

Thieves.

They don't call themselves that. They replace the word “thieves” with “brothers”, “prisoners”, “tramps”, “tramps”, “crooks”, “travelers”, and half a century ago they called themselves “zhigans”, “people” .. These are professional criminals. Prisons and camps for them are obligatory stages of their professional career. Our criminal world is a special world, it is very difficult for an outsider to get there, almost impossible. To commit a crime, the most professional one - to rob a bank, for example - does not mean to be accepted into this world. Any, even an accidental attitude to the structures of power, its political institutions (for example, membership in a party or in the Komsomol) forever closes the road to the “thieves' world” for a person, no matter how professional a criminal he later becomes. In addition to the “clean profile”, the candidate for thieves must adhere to the “correct concepts”, over time these concepts also change (we will talk about this later). The elite of the underworld - thieves in law. This is not necessarily the name of those who earn their living by stealing. These are rather informal leaders, a kind of “initiates”, recognized by well-known authorities and received their recommendation, elected as “full members” at a gathering (at a “gangway”) of all thieves in a given prison, camp or region. According to various estimates, now there are only a few hundred thieves in law on the territory of the former Soviet Union. They are grouped into several groups.

If there is no real thief in the zone, the thieves' world tries to send a "watcher" there, that is, its representative, who will make sure that the convicts comply with the thieves' law and thieves' orders. Thieves' orders are usually a new rule created as a result of some dispute between convicts, or as a response to a new MIA action. From orders, the unwritten prison law continues to be constantly drawn up. The will of the beholder for other prisoners is the same law as the will of a thief. The beholder or the thief is surrounded by a group of helpers. This is the highest caste in the camp - thieves. Of course, in some camp there may not be a real thief or beholder. But in every camp there are people who consider themselves professionals, the prison is their home, and all its other inhabitants are aliens.

In the caste of thieves there is the main one - "godfather", "authority". Under the godfather - something like a presidential team, several thieves, each of whom does his own thing: one looks after the peasants, the other - for the "common fund" (this is the name of the general prison treasury), the third - for something else. They can also be called "authorities". The godfather and his entourage have a guard - "athletes", "fighters", "gladiators".

Not every prisoner can become a thug. First of all, he must be pure in the free life. Previously, for example, the path to the highest caste was closed to those who served in the army, who at least once went to work in the zone. Now these requirements have been abolished in some places. And in some zones, thieves can go to work - in that case, however, if this is not work as a foreman, contractor, etc., that is, if it does not give him at least some official power over the rest. Those who worked in the service sector, that is, were a waiter, a taxi driver, cannot become thieves. Former bosses too. There are still a lot of other requirements for applicants for the status of a thug. Each zone may have its own specific requirements.

The thieves are the real power in some zones, the power that fights against the official power, that is, with the administration of the zone. In addition to power, thieves have privileges - the right not to work, the right to keep everything they see fit from the common fund. The thieves also have responsibilities. The right godfather is obliged to ensure that the zone "warms up", that is, it receives food, tea, tobacco, vodka, and clothes through illegal means. He is also obliged to resolve disputes that arise between other prisoners, and in general not to allow any skirmishes between them, to ensure that no one is unjustly punished, offended, deprived. All this does not mean, of course, that for the godfather the correct order in the zone is more important than personal benefits. Often his concern for the lads is just an excuse to crush her and row everything for himself. But there are also enough zones where the godfather does not get out of the ShIZO (penalty cell) and spends the entire term on bread and water so that the lads live peacefully and not starving.

Those who adhere to the correct concepts in the zone or in prison, the prison law, the administration calls denial, denial. Not only thieves get here, but everyone who actively resists the administration. It happens that a person simply fell out of favor with the detachment officer (the head of the detachment), refused the left work that he was forced to do. In general, the case here also means a lot.

Article 1883 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR - “Malicious disobedience to the lawful requirements of the administration of the ITU” was also invented specifically for denialism. This article is Andropov's, introduced in 1983. According to it, a person could be endlessly added to a term from one to five years. Many have been spun around. Now there is no such article in the criminal legislation. Article 321 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is called “Disruption of the normal activities of institutions that ensure isolation from society”, but it refers to violence or the threat of violence against employees of places of detention or other prisoners.

There are also zones where thieves work together with the administration, more precisely, with the operational unit. Sometimes special “gaskets” are made - the newly arrived authoritative thieves opers are talked into cooperation and begin to help him in everything, the former thieves are discredited or removed from the zone, and the new “watcher” is assisted (naturally, behind the scenes). He becomes the main one, everything rolls for him: vodka, marijuana, tea, smoking. And for this, he brings to the zone the order that the administration needs.

It is this type of thieves that is now most common in the zones. The underworld has changed no less than the big world. Once upon a time, thieves could not have documents, sign papers, get married, go to work in the camp. Today, the underworld is actively involved in business and politics. How can you manage without papers in business? What is a politician without a family, that is, without hostages? Tumbleweed, no one will believe him ... Starting from about the 70s, the honorary, for the underworld, title of thief in law began to be bought and, more importantly, sold. There was even a name for such newly appeared thieves in law - “oranges”. These people, in general, are no longer as ideological as the former thieves. Those used to die, went to the fires, but refused to kiss the knife to the bitch (there was such a way of squeezing during the bitch war). Honor and respect is also a great value. Well, then concrete things began to be respected - money, the ability to make money. Mores have changed in the underworld - they have changed in prison.

Guys

This is the next cast. It consists of random, in general, people in the zone. The wife jailed one for drinking, the other stole some trifle, he is in jail for a fight, and this one was sewn up - he got under the arm. After all, in general, from fifty to ninety percent of convicts in our country are people who would simply be fined in some Western country, and that's it. There, after all, prisons only bring losses, but in our country they have been profitable for many years, that's the whole point. This is only if you consider legal profit. And how the camp administration profited in the zones, and its bosses, and the mafia, and the same freemen who go to work in the camps, and those who live near the camps - it’s better not to tell.

Today, the camps in Russia also bring mostly losses, unemployment there is cleaner than in the wild. Slave labor could replace free labor only when relatively simple things were done in the wild that did not require initiative, creative imagination. These times have passed - only those who react instantly survive in the market. But our criminal justice system continues to live by the inertia of the Gulag times. And many people are still imprisoned in vain, to the detriment of them, and society, and the victims, whom they cannot even compensate for the damage - unemployment. These people form the caste of men.

The men do not claim any power in the zone, they do not serve anyone, they do not cooperate with the administration. They cannot interfere in the affairs of the thieves. The men do not have the right to vote in their "showdowns". But there are, of course, respected people among them, to whom the thieves listen, not to mention the rest of the peasants. In a word, men are prisoners who are going to return to normal life after serving their term.

Goats

These are open employees of the camp administration. Those who agreed to accept some position - supply manager, head of the club, librarian, commandant of the zone. Those who put on "jambs" - an armband. Those who joined the SPP - the "offense prevention section", that is, the internal police of the camp. They are also called "bitches". "Suchenny" - agreed to work for the cops. The administration calls the goats "an asset", "persons who have firmly embarked on the path of correction." Of course, the convicts treat them badly. Traitors are treated badly everywhere, and if you consider that in each zone there is a war going on between the administration and prisoners - sometimes "cold", sometimes real - such an attitude will become clear.

They get into the goats in different ways: some of their own free will, someone will be forced, someone will be intimidated. In some zones, the arrived stage is generally given padded jackets with already sewn bandages. You put on - you get bored. If you don't put it on, if you rip off the bandage, they will put you in a punishment cell, and upon leaving you will receive the same padded jacket, the same offer, and the same punishment cell for refusing. And so many months in a row. Some endure - through hunger, through tuberculosis. Well, if you can’t stand it, you will become a goat. You will do the same as all the goats - to be on duty at the checkpoint between the "lokalki" - fences inside the zone, or between the "housing" and "industrial" - the residential and industrial parts of the zone. You will be "godfather", the head of the operational unit, the same convicts as yourself, to hand over. And even if you do not enroll in the SPP, but you will, for example, work in the library, you are still a goat, and the lads will not accept you. There is no upward movement in the zone at all, from the lower caste to the higher one.

You can greet the goats, communicate with them, touch them, but they are not allowed into the common fund. In the camps, by the way, there is such a legend: there is a secret order according to which, in the event of war, all goats should be shot as potential traitors. But this, of course, is only a legend. Although during the war the German punitive detachments were not made up of army soldiers and not even always of the SS, but primarily of the policemen. The Germans were not so insane as to corrupt their army with such deeds.

Roosters

The last caste is COCKS, they are also "offended", "lowered", "faggots" and so on. This is a caste of outcasts, untouchables, outcasts, among them are passive homosexuals. At the same level in the zone there is an intermediate caste - "pigs", "devils". The only difference is that they are not used as passive buggers - they are simply untouchables.

Homosexuality has always existed in prisons, it was, as a rule, a voluntary matter. But from some time - according to some reports, from the reform of the "corrective labor" system of 1961 - a custom began to spread in the zones: punishment in the form of forcible conversion of the guilty into a pederast. Some veterans of the Gulag believe that this custom was invented by the opera - it became their weapon in the fight against the negative. There is a similar custom among some backward tribes in Africa - there, boys who have not passed the test of initiation into men are called women's names, dressed in women's clothes and resettled in the backyards of the camp. That is, they make them as if they were not men. This is also found in some species of monkeys - the leader of the pack, as a sign of victory over the delinquent male, rapes him.

In the right terms, there is a law: "x ... m do not punish." That is, the prison law expressly forbids punishing anyone in this way. If a person is found guilty - and only guilty of prison life, and not of free life - you can get a fine from him - a pack of Belomor, a million rubles, etc. It is possible, if they decide so at the disassembly, to beat him, break his bones, and finally kill him. But you can't drop it.

I have already said that the omitted appeared in the community of prisoners after the reform of 1961. Before this reform, there was one type of camp for all prisoners. The reform divided the camps into regimes: general, reinforced, strict, special. As a result, the first-timers, who began to be placed in general regime camps, were separated from the repeat offenders. Those ended up in other regimes - so that the pioneers "do not have a bad influence." Thus, the pioneers were also separated from the experience of forced cohabitation developed by many generations, which the recidivists, among other things, owned. This experience made it possible (we are talking about the second half of the fifties) at the very least, but to live in peace. In the former camps, moreover, people of all ages were imprisoned. And the struggle for supremacy there was softened to some extent by the existence of a large number of elderly and old people. Of course, they could not be afraid and not respected, but still there are things that people do not do or try not to do in the presence of elders - this sits in every person. And now imagine: hordes of young men (and pioneers, as a rule, people of the same age, 20-22 years old), whom nature itself doomed to constant competition and finding out who is more important, stronger, smarter. Naturally, there will always be a squabble between them, since they cannot at least for a while disperse, relax, communicate with those with whom it makes no sense to compete - with old people, women, children. By the way, things are even worse at a youngster precisely because there are no elders there. Even the prison administration understands this and put young "father" - an adult prisoner - into the cells. And these "bati", it happens, rob youngsters, which is why the position of "bati" is considered to be mowing.

Most of all people are lowered in areas for youngsters, that is, where they do not know the prison law, albeit terrible and cruel, but the only one under which people can remain people, and simply survive. After a youngster, prisons give the most omitted. For the same reason that they arrange a residence permit - they think that this is how it should be. In the camps, they are lowered much less frequently than in prisons. The tougher the regime, the less often. In general, the harder the regime in the camp, the easier it is for those who sit in it.

They say it's better to die than to become a "cock". They treat them very cruelly: they force them to live in trees, eat mice, put light bulbs up their asses - whoever is into it. But again, it depends on the mode. They do the wildest things with them on a general basis, not to mention the youngster. Here on the strict it is easier for them. Every prisoner knows his place there. Usually on a strict regime, and indeed in any correct zone, a cock is just a rejected person. He has everything separate, and he does not dare to touch anyone. But if he was offended, he was treated unfairly, he can complain to the authorities, and they will protect him, because experienced people understand: a muzzled by his own will go to seek protection from strangers. That is, he will work for the administration, knock.

The roosters have separate places, separate dishes, separate work - a revenge parade ground, wash toilets. You can't take anything from them. And to give, to throw, so as not to accidentally touch, you can. Although there are exceptions. When they are "used", it is not considered a defiling contact. In the ShIZO, sometimes it is only possible to pass something through a rooster - if between the ShIZO and the residential area lies a "prohibition", a forbidden strip. Only the one who levels it can be on it, that is, the roosters - this is their job. It is through them that the heat is transmitted. It is believed that in such a situation, neither the things that passed through the hands of the rooster, nor the one who received them, are "stained", that is, they are not defiled.

On the prison regime, in a colony of special and strict regime, as a rule, there are not many roosters - from one to five percent. On the enhanced and general regime, their share can reach up to 10-12%, and on the youngster - up to 20. The milder the regime, the more of them. In some zones there are their whole barracks - "monkeys", "offended". And in normal zones, they just sleep at the entrance to the barracks and don’t go further. Roosters usually have their own "godfather" - the head rooster. This is a powerful figure. After all, he can order some rooster to kiss, say, someone in front of everyone. Of course, a rooster can be killed for this, but the one he kisses automatically becomes a rooster himself. The chief rooster is at the same time an intermediary between the caste of the untouchables and the entire camp community. All claims of the omitted, all their proposals are brought to the authoritative (skhodnyak) through this leader. Through him, this group of outcasts and formally withdrawn from normal life of people is controlled by authoritative ones. The chief cock is an optional figure, sometimes there are two leaders (“folder” and “mother”) or even more. It should be noted that the leaders of the roosters are people who are very well informed about the inner life of the zone. They know many intrigues, they can know who the real “watcher” is (often a prisoner who appears as a “watcher” is a dummy figure, and the real leader of the zone is not highlighted), and much more.

Roosters are for life. If a rooster arrives in a zone where no one knows him - when he is transferred there, or from the wild, if he is imprisoned a second time - he is obliged to inform the lads about his status. It is useless to hide it, sooner or later the rooster's past becomes known, and then the opened roosters are punished, beaten, often killed. After all, it is believed that such a rooster "zashkvaril" all those who considered him an equal.

From the beginning of the 1990s, since prison customs began to spread rapidly in the wild, the downtrodden began to come from there, with a ready-made status.

By the way, there are not so many passive homosexuals and “prostitutes” among the lowered ones, contrary to popular belief. Basically, as I said, they get downgraded for the grossest violations of the prison law, for example, for squealing, for ratting (stealing from one's own), for lawlessness, non-payment of card debt. Those who themselves lowered or were the godfather of the cell in which someone was lowered without guilt are also very likely candidates for roosters. However, they can drop for anything. For beautiful eyes they can lower. It is difficult to rape an adult man - he will resist. Therefore, there are a number of replacement rituals. For example, they touch the lips of a sleeping person x...m. Or they wet a towel with sperm and pass it over the face. Sometimes pioneers are deceived: let me fuck you - you will get a pack of cigarettes. After all, there are such smokers that they can live without water and bread, but not without smoking. So they are sold for a smoke, or they just picked up bulls from the ground - they squashed themselves.

They can promise both support and protection for “services” - anything. It's called "talk on x ... d". Such a deception is considered a big joint: these deceivers themselves are then lowered along with rapists and thugs. They can - and this is also the biggest problem - set up an inexperienced novice convict who liked someone. Let's say they take all the chairs in the barbershop except for one, stale. A man, not feeling trouble, enters the hairdresser's and sits down on the only free chair. "Countryman, where did you sit down ?! - What is it? - Yes, this is a place for fagots! - But I didn't know ... - Well, you never know, I didn't know!"

Card debtors often fall into the lowered ones. A person who has not paid a debt (and even in the form of a smoke) in the zone can simply be killed - this is not a will, they seriously collect for debts there. And so, in order to avoid punishment, a person voluntarily becomes a rooster. He takes his mattress at night and moves to the cock's bunk. Now, like any rooster, nothing can be taken from him.

- If the surname of the convict is Petukhov, for example, does this affect his position in the zone?

The surname itself has no effect. Now, if a person is not liked by others, it will ruin his life.

- I heard that unscrupulous people or those suffering from skin diseases usually fall into the lowered ones.

Lies. Or a typical sample and "Fan Fanych's research". Prison law seen through a peephole.

Skin diseases cannot be the cause of "lowering". Of course, the leper himself will sleep separately and drink from his mug so as not to infect the lads. But there will be no rejection from the lads - he is its full member.

As for the unscrupulous, this is already a consequence, not a cause. It is very difficult for a rooster to observe personal hygiene, but he cannot use a common washbasin. Yes, and he does the dirty work. Uncleanliness is also a violation of prison law. But only for this a person is unlikely to be lowered. After all, it happens all the time - where there is an impure body, there are impure thoughts and deeds, or simply disrespect for others. Well, where there is dirt, there are skin diseases - this is natural.

To finish with the castes, it is necessary to mention a few more groups. In addition to "pigs" and "devils", there are also "sixes" in the zones - servants. Too weak or helpful people fall into the sixes. Both in prisons and in camps, excessive obsequiousness is not in honor. If you are asked to do something, say, wash someone else's socks, and you agree, you will be a six. Even if you do it for a fee. In prison, it is customary to serve yourself. He who cannot endure difficulties, who begins to do and fulfill everything for a piece of bread, does not deserve respect. But, you understand, this does not mean that you should not fulfill any requests at all. It all depends on the situation in which the request is fulfilled, and on who fulfills it and how. Sometimes even the person who served a mug of water becomes a six.

Other passive homosexuals differ from roosters - personal lovers of thieves, all these Jackdaws, Svetka, Masha. They are not beaten, they are not kept in a black body, on the contrary, they are excused from work - so that they are soft. But they are not allowed too much either. It is best not to get involved with these individuals.

"Snoops" keep apart in the zones - orderlies in detachments, cleaners in headquarters, canteens, medical units, etc. This is also an unrespected public, something like goats of the last analysis.

They say that in the prison and the camp they especially do not favor those who went to prison for rape. What other articles, except for 131 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (rape), are considered shameful? If I sat down on any of the "dirty" articles, is there any point in hiding it?

By "rape" in fact, the zone has become accustomed to. There are scarier articles out there. For example, for evading the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Also for homosexuality, for indecent acts against minors.

As for rape, the attitude towards those who sat down under this article is not always the same. It happens, after all, that there was no rape either - they just wanted to imprison a person and imprisoned him, albeit under the article for rape (in the old Criminal Code it was the famous 117th, “youth” article). This is a fairly common case.

Previously, articles for vagrancy, for hooliganism, for living without a residence permit were also considered not prestigious. In general, respect in the criminal world is enjoyed by those who do their “work” without corpses, without violence, and so on.

I don't know if I should hide my article. Usually such things become known over time.

The real owners of the zone are not people in uniform, but "goats"!
Everyone knows the word "goat". Not in the sense of an artiodactyl and horned animal with a beard and a vile smell, but as a curse. Many people with no criminal record must have heard that this swearing behind bars is a terrible insult and means an informer who betrays his brothers-convicts. This is the origin of this term. Previously, a trained goat was kept in slaughterhouses, which led unsuspecting animals to slaughter, while remaining unharmed himself.

Analysis by breed

In fact, the concept of "goat" in captivity is very difficult and ambiguous. Let's start with the fact that in correctional colonies there are official "goats"-activists who are not encrypted, but on the contrary, even wear decals on their clothes. There are still snitches. They are also called "hens" and decoys. Everything is clear with them. They live like decent people, but they themselves betray their neighbors.

With an asset, everything is much more complicated. There are entire colonies in which convicts are immediately made activists, forcing them to do so by threats of punishment and beatings. Completely intimidated convicts wrote applications for joining the section. After such a statement, their path to criminal authorities was closed forever. But if a convict from this colony ended up in another, after a second conviction, then he could hide from the lads that he had once been an activist. Another thing is if the convict held a position and openly served the cops. You can't hide this.

What gives a convict a position? What are the pros and cons it brings him, we will analyze below. Let's start with the day squad. There are two of them - senior and junior. The elder is also called the caretaker or foreman. His duties include keeping order in the detachment, making repairs there, and maintaining cleanliness. The caretaker himself is not removed. This is done by the junior orderly (if there is a thieves' move in the zone). But if in the "black" zone in the detachment live "muzhiks" - hard workers, or if the zone is "red", then they are removed in turn. Which is absolutely legal according to the rules of the internal regulations.

But thieves get out of the bastard, even on their duty. Otherwise, you will immediately lose the status. Also, a thug should not go to weekly chores to clean up the territory. Blatota and decent prisoners solve the problem differently. Somewhere, all the cleaning and work is done by the “lowered”. But there are colonies where thieves and "watchers" are not opposed to everyone (except them, of course) being put on the duty list. When the turn of the one who takes the mop or broom in the bastard comes, he must pay (a pack of cigarettes or tea leaves) to a hard worker who will work for him. Because otherwise everything will be overgrown with dirt.

In addition to cleanliness, the duties of the caretaker include everything related to the life of the barracks. Plus, the senior orderly directly contacts employees. He has a special day in the operational unit for a report. The caretaker is the right hand of the head of the detachment. Here everything depends on the person. If a strong personality becomes a supply manager, then he can behave very independently, make even thieves in the "black" zone take into account with him. Well, on the "red" supply manager in general single-handedly manages the life of the detachment, and everyone is afraid of him.

He distributes beds, can help avoid punishment for a violation or remove a previously imposed penalty, which paves the way for parole. Naturally, convicts bring gifts to the caretaker from the transfers, and they give money for help with parole. The caretaker usually has a separate room, with a good repair, TV, tape recorder. The junior orderly lives in the trunk room, where the prisoners keep their bags. Becoming an orderly is a sure way to early release. Therefore, among the caretakers there are many former thieves, "watchers" and even thieves. But staying in this position is not easy. You have to manage to be good for both the cops and the convicts. Otherwise, they will either remove it or cripple it. Openly touching the "goat" is dangerous - they can start a criminal case against you.

Bath and laundry "caretakers"

In addition to the orderlies of the detachment, there are other orderlies - at headquarters, for example. Especially trusted convicts work there. They see which of the convicts often go to the operas and the authorities. They are trusted to clean the offices in the absence of cops. Usually these orderlies live at the headquarters. This is done so that in the barracks they are not run over and extorted information.

There are orderlies in the bathhouse. They are also responsible for the laundry. This position is also profitable. You can hand over linen to the laundress along with the whole detachment. But it is not pleasant enough when your sheets and other linen are washed along with the linen of one and a half hundred convicts. For a pack of good cigarettes, your clothes will be washed separately. Also, for a fee, they will let you wash on the wrong day. Smoke is the main currency in the zone. It can be exchanged for money, food, good clothes. Cigarette prices are higher than outside.

There are sentries in a punishment cell, strict conditions of detention, cell-type rooms. It happens that such caretakers constantly live in such a zone prison, they go out under the supervision of an employee in order to get food in the canteen. Or food for them is brought from the catering department.

The orderly ShIZO is kept indoors all the time. He cleans the hallway and distributes food. Even a thug can't get out of his cell in a bastard. If the caretaker of the ShIZO goes into the zone and sleeps in the barracks, he has a hard time. The thieves ask him to hand over the forbidden things to the cells. If the "watchers" do not do this, then the punishment cells are "frozen" and the "watchers" are useless. But if the caretaker of the ShIZO is caught with forbidden cigarettes, tea, free food or a note, he will be beaten by guards and removed from his post. The supply manager cannot completely refuse to wear the ban either. The thieves run into him in the barracks. Yes, and the prisoners in the cells can press. The authority will shout that the supply manager is a “rooster”, no one will take food from him. Then they will also be removed from office. So such a daylighter is spinning. If he has a head, he cannot live without gifts from convicts.

The colony club also has orderlies. The younger serve the elder and maintain cleanliness. The caretaker carries out management functions and is responsible for cultural life. The political officer is responsible for the club from the authorities. He tries to pick up a creative supply manager for himself.

Bread places

But the most trump card and at the same time troublesome is to be the supply manager of the canteen. Food for cooking convicts plundered in the wild. Zampotyl needs to be fed and shared with his superiors. The manager of the dining room needs to recruit cooks so that they can prepare an edible brew from a poor set of ingredients.

Okay, in the "red" zone - there the prisoners are intimidated. And in colonies where there is a normal "looking" canteen, they can cook in a cauldron for poor nutrition.

Well, of course, these are extremes. Watchers or "goats" (depending on which of them rules) are prepared food at the level of good factory canteens, or even restaurants. Dry food from the canteen and cooks are sold for cash and smoke with tea or branded clothes. "Men" are fed quite badly.

There are colonies where the canteen, together with the "watchers", sold everything they could and changed money for heroin. Ordinary prisoners suffered from dystrophy. But if anyone dared to complain, then the thieves beat such a brave man, declaring him an enemy of the general movement. Here everything depends on the head of the colony. If he controls the catering department, then the prisoners are fed normally. And vice versa.

There are orderlies in the meeting room and the issuance of parcels, in the storehouse of the institution. In a word, where, in the half-starved existence of the condemned, the matter concerns food, the position is always bread. The orderly of the visiting room sometimes lives right on the date, or comes from the zone. He can bring alcohol into the visiting rooms, he gets all the products that are forbidden to be brought into the zone. He can deliver these prohibitions to the detachment for a fee.

In some correctional facilities, there is a post with a gate between the residential and industrial area. Orderlies are also often on duty there, completely replacing employees and exercising control so that convicts who do not work in brigades do not enter the industrial complex. These caretakers also take bribes. You need someone to go to the industrial area to wash or visit a fellow countryman - pay. The hard worker wants to carry a grocery transfer, which is forbidden - pay. In short, enough for a satisfying existence. The main thing is to get along with the authorities, otherwise they quickly steal. If you let the parasite pass, the inspector will write a report. And that's it.

Stylist with tag

In addition to orderlies, there are many more positions for convicts. The contractors of the colony are also very trusted representatives of the employees. The contractors keep a card file of the special contingent - who arrived, who was released, who went to work and what shift, how many people are in the detachment during the day and how many at night, which of the prisoners spend the night at the facilities. Without a worker, the employees will not be able to count the prisoners on verification. The contractor can cover those who left for a long time. That is why the contractors must be convicts, thoroughly checked by the operational unit.

Each colony has a hairdresser. He cuts hair for free. If you want to wear your hair, pay. It happens that there is more than one barber in the colony. Among the convicts are well-known stylists. They serve the bosses, do the hair and perms for their wives and children.

A library should operate in the zones, where convicts also rule. There were librarians who were tied up with the authorities and imprisoned for maintaining a file cabinet and issuing books to a junior assistant. Asami lived in a separate room. The librarian must also be devoted to the employees, he takes the books to the SUS, EPKT, PKT and can transfer the ban to the inmates. Many convicts love to read. Therefore, they give bribes to the librarian in order to get not torn waste paper from the common rack, but a whole interesting book from the librarian's storerooms.

There is also a shoemaker in the colony. In each barracks sit craftsmen who know how to hem or patch up shoes. But the official position is one shoemaker. He is obliged to repair free of charge only the straight shoes of convicts. But not everyone wears what they gave out at the clothing store. If you give a shoemaker nishtyakov, he will mend free shoes, or sew warm slippers that you can carry in the winter and on the street.

It happens that next to the shoe shop there is a seamstress, where convicts can mend their clothes. Only tailors don't darn holes and adjust robes to height and size.

Another position is captain. He gives the stage mattresses, pillows, blankets, Kapter's sheets are also often greased so that he gives out a thicker mattress, the blanket is not torn, but newer sheets. The poor and the wealthy get what's left.

commandant in law

There is a commandant in the living area. He is in charge of repairs in the colony. Every thieves convict wants to improve the sleeping section. Each caretaker needs to make repairs at his facility. It is not always possible to obtain humanitarian aid from prisoners in exchange for parole. If you give a bribe to the commandant, then he can release the left material in huge quantities. Position bread, but you have to be able to dodge.

There is also a commandant in the industrial zone. He is responsible for all workshops, utility rooms, warehouses, for the repair and safety of everything. Often, to the detriment of the production, the commandant helps with repairs to the vein. Each work team has a foreman. Brigadier - "goat". He often does not work, but performs supervisory functions. He also gets all the laurels for fulfilling orders and tasks. He gets paid by the cooperators, he sells the hack work of the hard workers and the materials used in production. There are colonies where, in order to become a foreman, you have to pay the cops a lot of money and unfasten the "roof" every month. But the income of the brigadier is not weak. For example, in the same souvenir shop where dozens of convicts make mahogany furniture, cut bone chess, and make other luxury items. Plus, the foreman has a separate room, shower, sauna, good food, parole.

Brigadiers are assigned to firefighters from among the convicts. These firefighters in some colonies even serve a special car. They monitor fire extinguishers and live in a separate room, turning it into a gym. It's not like that everywhere, but it happens.

Electricians have foremen. They cash in on the sale of sockets and wires or on the installation of hidden wiring in the bedroom section of the thieves, disguising sockets in the plinth or in the wall so that the thieves boil teas or fry food on a prohibited stove without getting up from the bunk. Tiles are also homemade, they are also sold by electricians. They, for a fee, repair televisions and tape recorders for convicts, and put antennas on the detachments.

But the official "goats" are not only those who hold positions with certain responsibilities. There are also social activists who are members of the sections and head them. "Glavkozlo" is called the chairman of the council of the collective of the colony. In his submission are the chairmen of the council of the team of the detachment. Sometimes the "chief goat" has a lot of power. In one zone, such a convict typed all orders for his superiors, kept documentation. With his power, he put violators in the ShIZO. Knowing what the authorities had decided, the chairman of the JCC took large bribes from the convicts for a positive decision on the issue of submitting to parole. Suffice it to mention that when the “goat-in-chief” went on vacation, seventy thousand dollars were confiscated from him on duty. For comparison - then a one-room apartment in St. Petersburg cost fifteen thousand bucks.

They left to return

In captivity, there are a lot of sections for physical education, cultural, and sanitary. Until recently there was a discipline and order section. But it was abolished, although this is only on paper so far. The esdepeshnikov were renamed into athletes, and they still monitor the behavior of convicts.

The duties of members of the SDP include making rounds of the sleeping sections. Even in "black" zones, such "goats" record violators, such as those who sleep after getting up or smoke in the wrong place. Naturally, only those are recorded. who does not beat off their heads later, spitting on the subsequent punishment. But in the colonies, most of the convicts are intimidated. The SDP submits lists of violators to the authorities. The authorities issue penalties to violators, which closes the way to parole.

Often burned offenders bribe SDE members not to be recorded. The Social Democratic Party is on duty at the canteen and forbids taking out food from there. The thieves are too lazy to go to the catering department, and the food is brought to them by "snoops".

Social Security Guards are on duty at the grocery store. There is an eternal queue. Normal products run out quickly. If you pay the SDP, then they will skip the line and you can buy goods. The Social Democratic Party is on duty at the gates of local areas and makes sure that convicts do not go out unnecessarily to the parade ground or to other local areas. On the SDP towers installed on the residential area, there is a direct telephone line to the duty unit. An activist from above monitors the territory of the colony, and if he sees a violation of the regime, he calls the cops.

Social Security workers do almost all the work for their employees. Somewhere it came to the point that they knock out a confession at the turnout, forcing them to write about unsolved crimes. Or they break down negatively minded authorities, “lowering” and beating them. Employees do this because, according to the concepts, a prisoner cannot write a complaint against a prisoner. The guards themselves seem to be on the sidelines and do not run the risk of running into a showdown with the prosecutor's office and human rights activists. All chaos is created by activists. Not without reason, despite the direct prohibition of the Social Democratic Party by the Ministry of Justice, they are not going to change anything locally. Too many "goats" bring benefits, while not forgetting themselves.

With regard to the official "goats", the prisoners still had Soviet notions - to despise all speculators, bosses who sell their skills or have closeness to the authorities. But every year there are more and more "goats" in captivity.

According to the newspaper
"Behind Bars" (#3 2010)

In places of deprivation of liberty, there are certain suits and clans, belonging to which determines the "weight" of the prisoner, the position in the hierarchy system.

From this review, you will learn about the main steps and about who the "devil" is in terms of concepts, what it is, and how it can get into the appropriate group.

Many researchers of the USSR were engaged in the study of prison castes - there is no difference in dividing prisoners into suits then and now, in 2020.

It is easy to go from a high caste to a low one, it is enough to behave not according to the rules, but it will be difficult to climb back.

For example, it is enough to sit down at the cock table once to drop to the rank of “rooster”, and it will take a very long time to return to the previous positions.

Before considering who the "devil" is in the zone, let's talk about all the existing castes:

There is also a kind of "servant" - these are sixes, snoops, woolen, jerseys, shalupen. By themselves, they do not mean anything, but for certain merits and the fulfillment of instructions, they can win favor with the thieves. Well, about what the word "damn" means, further.

Who is the "devil" according to thieves' concepts

The word "devil" in prison slang is used to refer to the lower caste, whose members are forced to do the dirtiest work.

Below the "line" can only be "lowered" and "pigs". Unlike the "rooster", the "devil" does not enter into sexual relations, but the attitude towards them does not get any better from this.

Usually, representatives of this suit do work for the thieves - for a fee, other privileges. The “devils” live in prisons with the “muzhiks”, but the “muzhiks”, despite the lack of the right to vote, are much higher.

According to various studies, until the 80s of the last century, "pigs" were called "devils", later these castes were divided.

Who is called the "devil" in the zone, we figured out, why are the "devils" worse than the "roosters"? The thing is that "roosters" provide intimate services for a fee (if this happens for free, out of love, the other side is also ranked as a "rooster" caste), and "devils" are simply a despicable caste.

The meaning of the word "hell" is downcast, untidy, forced to do any work, humiliated.

The prison world lives on a strict hierarchy. Representatives of the lower castes are far from being in a privileged position, but there are certain differences among them.

For example, "devils" do not engage in sexual contact, but are considered worse than "roosters". It is very easy to go down the "ladder", but it is almost impossible to go up.

In domestic places not so remote, all prisoners are divided into four prison castes (they are also called suits), according to their importance in the Zekov hierarchy - thieves, men, goats and roosters. There are also “branches” from these suits, but, by and large, they do not have a fundamental, independent value.

You can easily slide down the prison hierarchical ladder, but climbing up is almost impossible.

thieves

These are the kings in the prison hierarchy, only thieves in law are above the thieves. But there are several hundreds of crime bosses, and tens of thousands of thieves. It is they who "hold" the zone or prison. The thieves usually do not work, but in any case, the official position in the zone is a shame for them, otherwise the transfer to the "goat" is inevitable. Any position in the wild, one way or another connected with the service (taxi driver, waiter, hairdresser), serves as a ban on obtaining the status of a thieves in the zone (in prison). Blatny also cannot become a person who has served in the army. The thieves have the right to spend money from the "common fund" for "targeted" needs - bribery, "heating". They also analyze intra-prison conflicts "according to concepts" and impose punishment on the guilty.

"Guys"

There are more of them in the zone than representatives of other stripes. The destiny of "men" is to work. A normal "muzhik" does not get involved in the showdowns of thieves (yes, "muzhiks" do not have the right to vote in them), does not cooperate with the administration of the MLS. Basically, "men" are not "professional" inmates, their main task is to serve time and resume a normal life in the wild.

"Goats"

Those who agreed to cooperate with the "owner" (the administration of the MLS) - supply managers, commandants, etc. In the "black" zones, where the thieves hold the upper hand, the "goats" can even be isolated from the rest of the prisoners. In the “red” MLS, the “goats” have regime indulgences and other privileges that distinguish them from other convicts. The phrase “you will answer for a “goat”” is from the Zonovsky lexicon: calling a person in prison a “goat”, if he is not one, is the gravest jamb, this should be followed by an immediate “answer”, otherwise the called person actually risks being transferred to the rank of “goats” ".

"Roosters" or "lowered"

The lowest caste in the prison hierarchy. Not to say that it is numerous in percentage terms with other suits, but the “lowered” conditionally can also be attributed to the lowered convicts - “pigs”, who do not look after themselves, are not washed, and are dirtyly dressed. "Chushko", as well as "roosters", are shunned in the zone and their place is often also at the slop bucket. "Rooster", strictly speaking, is a passive homosexual. Either "blue" (regardless of the active-passive position), who came as such from the outside, or "offended" already in the zone. The “roosters” do not have any rights in the zone, they are outcasts, from which the rest of the inmates try to distance themselves as much as possible - the “blue ones” have their own dishes with a hole and their own place closer to the toilet. All the dirty work in captivity - washing toilets, maintaining garbage pits and much more - on the “lowered”. The word "rooster" and related words - "chicken", "chicken house", "scallop" and all the others, in any way connected with this bird - are very offensive in relation to a particular convict, they immediately need to be called to account , otherwise this status, as well as with the "goat", can stick to the convict, and already irrevocably.

"Sixes", "sneaks", "woolen" and "sweatshirts"

"Shesterki" - servants, weak-willed people who are ready to carry out various kinds of instructions for a handout. Of course, no one respects the "Sixes", because in the zone it's every man for himself. The classic type of "snooper" - Blotter in the movie "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed", he also has a nickname suitable for the suit. "Snoops" serve the thieves, in fact, they are the same "sixes". In the absence of an “object of worship”, they can easily be translated into “omitted”. "Woolen" - lawless, either of their own free will, or at the instigation of the "owner". Often these are thieves who did not behave according to concepts. "Woolen" "correct" prisoners are usually slaughtered or transferred to the category of "cocks". "Fuffer" - "moving bullshit", "bluffing" - a convict who did not pay in a timely manner for losing in gambling for interest. Card and other debt in the zone is a sacred thing, so the fate of the insolvent "shoeman" is unenviable.