Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Transmission Russian Prison Letters Go Digital With New Smartphone App

Author : Tom Balmforth

Date : March 3, 2013

Extract : « Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service this month launched an application for smartphones that allows users to send messages and pictures to inmates held in custody.
Provided the communiques pass censorship at correction facilities, they are printed and handed to inmates within the space of three days. […] It has already delivered more than 180,000 messages. […] ​FSIN Pismo, which has a logo similar to the Russian Postal Service, began a test phase in St. Petersburg's Kresty and Moscow's Vodnik pretrial-detention centers at the beginning of this month. It will soon be offered in correction facilities across the country. »

Index terms : Prison, inmates, communication.

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Site : Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty.


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