* I didn't much like the look of him. f even Dreyfus' family doesn't think him innocent. Not so solitary confinement Moscow's Butirskaya prison had been designed in the 1780s for just under a third of its present number of inmates, and hadn't had a proper refit since 1878. The prisoners had 75 sq cm of living space each and were packed 140 to a cell, with one tiny window and one toilet, sleeping in shifts. I never imagined as I emerged, retching from that stinking, Dickensian nightmare of a jail that I would be instrumental in adding two more inmates to its overcrowded cells. From The Times 22 February 1996 sent in by Frank Tapson.