Radio in Soviet Prisons

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 38, 3 April 1931, Page 11

Radio in Soviet Prisons

HE Soviet has come to the eonelusion that the study of radio is one of the best means .of improving a prisoner’s morals. It has been found that courses in electricity and wireless tend to develop a new mentality among prisoners, many of whom, it is said, have turned over a new leaf on returning to civil life by taking up wireless as a profession. very facility is given the prisoners to study wireless. They are allowed a certain number of components; cireuit diagrams are supplied them; and text books on the subject are loaned from the prison library. Many of the recelyers produced by the prisonerg are fine examples of what can be done with limited facilities, and reflect great credit on the constructors.