Something worth fighting for

If someone can convince you to die for their values, they have taken everything from you. Only you can make sure that anyone who wants to take your life from you, has to do it the hard an unprofitable way. That said, if you're serving a life sentence in prison, you might as well go to the front lines. Worst case, you die, and don't have to live in prison; best case, you survive, and your sentence gets commuted. Why is it only Russia that uses prisoners in this way? It's unconscionable to take free men with clean criminal records, treat them like shit, and send them off to die.