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Learning From Russia
Episode 5 of 5
Having spent a year living in desolate penal colonies in Russia, Laura Piacentini, a criminologist at the University of Strathclyde, explains how that country's prisons can offer insights into our expanding prison population and what in fact constitutes human rights.
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