Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich Details Russian Prison Codes He Learned From Cellmate

According to Gershkovich, prisoners could face consequences for associating with someone regarded as being at the bottom of the prison caste system (Credit: Executive Office of the President of the United States via Wikimedia Commons)

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has described the unwritten rules, prison hierarchy and daily routines he learned from a cellmate during his detention in Moscow's Lefortovo prison.

In a New Yorker essay published on 28 September, Gershkovich recalled being moved into a cell with another prisoner after spending two weeks in solitary confinement.