TULA, June 28 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian inmate who “compelled” fellow prisoners to slit their wrists, reportedly in protest of a reinstated warden, has been sentenced to an additional two years and two months, prosecutors said Friday.
The 29-year-old convict “compelled other prisoners to mutilate themselves and to refuse to accept food, by threatening to use force against them,” prosecutors in central Russia said in a statement, adding that “more than 200 inmates slit their wrists” in the protest on April 4 last year.
Media reports had said the wrist-slitting inmates, serving their sentences at a facility in the Kursk region town of Lgov, were protesting the reinstatement of former warden Yury Bushin, who had been fired in connection with prisoner beatings.
The newly sentenced convict, whose name has not been disclosed, was found guilty of “disrupting the activity of a correctional facility,” the prosecutors' statement said.
