A real mad house...

[MeMyselfAndI]

http://www.corrupcia.net/articles/fact-4906.html

Police operatives in Krasnoyarski krai [Central Siberia] are going to town Atamanovo to investigate claims made about the local institution for the mentally ill.

Allegations have been made by local TV channel "STS-Prima". In a recording made with a cell phone camera, staff of Asylum #1 can be seen forcing patients to fight one another, with the members of staff, including doctors as well as orderlies, making bets on the outcomes of the fights. In the video, two male patients are attacking each other, as a voice off camera (now identified as that of head orderly Vladimir Bukharov) encourages them.

Do you know what the worst thing is? Even if anyone is convicted in this case, all they'd get is 3 months arrest or a fine...

[Americano]

http://www.corrupcia.net/articles/fact-4906.html

Police operatives in Krasnoyarski krai [Central Siberia] are going to town Atamanovo to investigate claims made about the local institution for the mentally ill.

Allegations have been made by local TV channel "STS-Prima". In a recording made with a cell phone camera, staff of Asylum #1 can be seen forcing patients to fight one another, with the members of staff, including doctors as well as orderlies, making bets on the outcomes of the fights. In the video, two male patients are attacking each other, as a voice off camera (now identified as that of head orderly Vladimir Bukharov) encourages them.

Do you know what the worst thing is? Even if anyone is convicted in this case, all they'd get is 3 months arrest or a fine...

Sounds like some US prison guards.

[MeMyselfAndI]

Sounds like some US prison guards.

The mental health instututions here have many issues. For one thing, there are plenty of 'patients' in there who are not really crazy, or at least were not when they were put in. Want to get rid of annoying relative so you can take the massive inheritance from a dead grandmother? Probability is that you can, for a bribe, have that relative placed into your local asylum. The government puts away vocal opposition activists: easier than jailing them. And then there are those who go in voluntarily. In Moscow, many young men trying to avoid military service attempt to buy a 'white ticket', a certificate of mental illness that would make them inadmissible for the army. But to get the 'white ticket', you still have to spend several months in a institution for the insane. There are probably tens of thousands of young boys in asylums here in Moscow, who are not really mentally ill...