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    Russia’s prison population falls by 180,000 since Ukraine war
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    Russia’s prison population falls by 180,000 since Ukraine war

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    1. GeneReddit123 on

      So either Putin had a change of heart in his approach to criminal justice during the war, and decided to grant a massive amnesty or institute more lenient criminal punishments (coming from a country which just recently banned Russians from using Telegram or VPNs), or 180,000 former Russian prisoners are now blooming sunflowers in the fields of Ukraine. Hmm, I wonder which one it is…

    4. MysteriousDatabase68 on

      If this is true you have to wonder why there aren’t more reports of fragging officers.

    7. Exact_Patience_9767 on

      That’ll happen when you go from the gulag straight to the western front. Putin may have that new Christian Fascist look, but he still holds dearly to Stalin’s old smell of force marching shock troops to their death by the thousands at the barrel end of a gun.

    9. macross1984 on

      Out of that 180,000, a few will survive miraculously and released back to population where they will cause more crimes and death to regular people.

    10. adhq on

      Ran out of soldiers, I figure… And, assuming that probably over 50% of them were imprisoned for political or suppressive reasons, the rest is obvious

    12. No_Rain8512 on

      I wonder if other countries would follow suit if things got really crazy? 

    13. Withoutanymilk77 on

      Pretty smart move for Putin really. Drains Ukrainian fighting power and stabilizes rule at home. Doesn’t matter how many people Ukraine kills if Putin wanted them dead anyways.

    14. VixensPoppies on

      That’s one way to clean up the prison population! Using prisoners to fill up the military, you can die in the war or be free after serving time in the military

      Any way you look at it, it reduces the number of prisoners inside jail quite massively with Putin’s Serve & be killed or released & be free later after serving a given time fighting in the war..

    15. stevenriley1 on

      They’re all dead or wounded by now. Shipped to the front. With 1.2 million Russian casualties, including dead wounded and missing, that’s only 15% of the total.

    17. Long-Euphoric-Life on

      The number of deaths this dude is accountable for is pretty astounding.  I hope he meets them all in the afterlife.  Or has to relive all their lives as punishment for the next million years.

    19. jadelink88 on

      Putins ‘eugenics program’, who’s next?

      You know, if we started with anyone stupid enough to volunteer, we’d make Russia smarter.

      Ok, done that one too. Eventually it will be ‘those too stupid to leave Russia or hide from authorities.’

    20. rizorith on

      Wait, does that finally mean the US has the number prison population in the world?!?!

    23. SuperVaderMinion on

      As long as Putin can keep sending “undesirables” like prisoners to die in Ukraine instead of young men from Russia’s largest cities, I have to imagine he’ll continue to have support for this war.

    28. clarkrd on

      well if they need more prison recruit’s they could always re-criminalize domestic violence

    29. Winstonsphobia on

      This means that more than half the 350,000+ deaths at the front with Ukraine have been convicts.

    33. Abalone-Objective on

      Wondering if other countries can send their prison populations to Russia for the same thing

    36. Gadgetman_1 on

      Next up; Batallions made out of former Prison guards that were unemployed because they had no more prisoners to guard…

    38. ManualPwModulator on

      In Ukraine people saying “We are exchanging lives of the best of ours for the worst of their”