Inside Views of an Injustice System. Recently released from detention, Mikhail Khodorkovsky writes moving portraits of his fellow inmates and exposes the rotten system of Russian justice. After more than ten years of imprisonment, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once the richest man in Russia, knows the corrupt system of Russian justice from the inside. In "My Fellow Inmates," he portrays fellow prisoners he met in the labor camps of Siberia and Karelia. Humiliated and insulted, cast aside and betrayed by a corrupt system. People who gave up, and those who, despite everything, preserved their dignity. There is Nikolai, arrested for drug possession, but coerced into taking on a second crime through an unofficial deal. Yet he refuses to admit to taking a handbag from an elderly woman at any cost.