Russian prisoners to build Crimean bridge

Prisoners of Russian jails will take part in cleaning the territory of Sochi, including Krasnaya Polyana, after the Winter Olympic Games and construction of a bridge over the Kerch Strait, said Oleg Korshunov, deputy head of the Russian Federal Sentence-Execution Service, Kommersant reports.

200 prisoners have already started work. Convicts of high-security prisons will not be sent for work.