Russia, whose defense and security agencies are heavily focused on its war in Ukraine, has seen a recent upsurge in Islamist militant attacks.

Russia, whose defense and security agencies are heavily focused on its war in Ukraine, has seen a recent upsurge in Islamist militant attacks.

Four knife-wielding prisoners claiming to be Islamic State group militants launched a deadly attack in a penal colony in southern Russia on Friday before being killed and their hostages released, officials said.

The attack left four people dead, while the four hostage-taking prisoners were “neutralized” by snipers, Russian officials said.

The attackers initially seized eight penal colony employees and four fellow inmates, according to Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Ser

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    193·
    3 months ago

    This is what you said above:

    From what I’ve heard, some Russian prisons are just as bad as American prisons, locking people in solitary for months to years at a time or in large rooms full of small cages.

    If you’re more familiar with American prisons, then maybe what you have heard is not good enough and you should be equally familiar with both before making such statements.

    Russian prisons are far worse just going by per capita deaths.

    Read first, then comment.

    • alcoholicorn@lemmy.mlEnglish
      619·
      3 months ago

      Russian prisons are far worse just going by per capita deaths.

      Presumably, we are both working off non-academic, English-language sources targeting western audiences about Russian prisons. We don’t have credible numbers here.

      Hell we don’t even have credible numbers on American prisons given how they’re able to cook the books by moving people out of the prison before they’re declared dead or simply not reporting deaths to the Bureau Of Justice.