Sleep
Following the strict former-Soviet Union practice, prisoners also had strict rules until early 1980s when they sleep: they must keep their hands above their sheets and they must face the peephole. Light will never be out when prisoners are asleep, because guards needs to check on prisoners. Prisoners are awoken by whistles at 7 a.m. sharp, and they go to bed at 9 p.m. sharp upon hearing whistles.
Originally, high-ranking prisoners have military style bed sheets, but low-ranking prisoners have to sleep on top of straws on their beds. If the prisoner have vanished from the guards' view, the wardens would immediately be notified to go into the cell to check what is going on.
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