 In 2007, she joined her independent colleagues, Dr. Marvin Makinen of the University of Chicago, himself a former inmate of Vladimir Prison, and Ari Kaplan, prize-winning mathematician and statistician, to continue their combined studies initiated in Russia between 1997 and 2000.Building upon Makinen and Kaplan’s original report, "Cell Occupancy Analysis of Korpus 2 of the Vladimir Prison", Mesinai focused on day-by-day movements of “unlisted” prisoners, without name or number.Together with Associate Aaron Slavik, who researches Soviet methods of concealment, Mesinai has added seven new findings that would verify previous eyewitness reports.