As they say, if you cannot do the time, don’t do the crime.
In Russia, and other places you don't necessarily have to commit a crime to do the time. Read Gulag Archipelago
As they say, if you cannot do the time, don’t do the crime.
you have no idea how ignorant that sounds in today’s totalitarian world.
In Russia, it’s more like “If you can’t pay the ‘fine’, don’t do the crime”.
To end up in Russian prison, you have to either be very broke, commit one of the few atrocities that you can’t buy your way out of, or mess with someone who has more money/power than you.
Russian prison is home to the very poor, the very evil and a few political/personal prisoners. Average Russians don’t care about the majority of them.
We aren’t too far behind with cops planting drugs on the innocent and ‘connected’ defense lawyers freeing the guilty.