{"id":209918,"date":"2026-05-14T13:49:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/russias-prison-population-falls-by-40-partly-by-sending-convicts-to-fight-in-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:49:35","slug":"russias-prison-population-falls-by-40-partly-by-sending-convicts-to-fight-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/russias-prison-population-falls-by-40-partly-by-sending-convicts-to-fight-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s prison population falls by 40%, partly by sending convicts to fight in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia, which has a massive prison network inherited from Soviet labour camps, has one of the world&#8217;s largest convict populations, though that number has been decreasing in the last 20 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/05\/14\/russias-prison-population-falls-by-40-partly-by-sending-convicts-to-fight-in-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia, which has a massive prison network inherited from Soviet labour camps, has one of the world&#8217;s largest convict populations, though that number has been decreasing in the last 20 years. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":209919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}