After the death of Stalin in 1953 and subsequent closure of the gulags, many of the former prisoners stayed on in the town to continue working the pits.

“I have never seen so much violence anywhere as I saw in the prison system. The worst horror, of course, happens in psychiatric clinics,” the journalist from Siberia said. Russia’s prison service did ...

"I have never seen so much violence anywhere as I saw in the prison system. The worst horror, of course, happens in psychiatric clinics," the journalist from Siberia said. Russia's prison service ...