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Can you believe prisons now have tanning beds ... in Russia?!?!?!

By Douglas A. Berman

There is this amusing new prison story, headlined "Notorious Russian prison to get tanning beds," coming from the AP out of Moscow.  Here are the details: A centuries-old Russian prison notorious for its primitive conditions will soon offer inmates a new perk ? tanning beds.... [Viktor] was quoted as saying the tanning beds are meant to compensate for inadequate sunlight in the cells. But inmates will have to pay and at 10 rubles (33 cents) a minute, that's a sizable fee in a country where the average monthly salary is well under $1,000. The prison's dismal conditions attracted wide attention in 2009 after the death of Sergei Magnitsky, a young lawyer who died of pancreas disease there after inadequate medical care.

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 17, 2011 (boomark / email).