Zhovti Vody Penal Colony (No. 26)

The state institution ‘Zhovti Vody Penal Colony (No. 26)’ was part of the structure of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine and for many years ensured the execution of sentences in the form of imprisonment in accordance with the requirements of the penal enforcement legislation of Ukraine.

The institution was located in the city of Zhovti Vody, Dnipropetrovsk region — one of the centres of the mining and uranium-mining industry of Ukraine. Historically, the activity of the colony was closely linked to the development of the region’s industrial complex and the involvement of convicts in socially useful labour at the institution’s production facilities.

Throughout its existence, the colony performed functions regarding the detention of convicts, the organisation of their labour, professional training, general educational preparation, and the conduct of socio-educational work. On the territory of the institution, there were residential, production, and communal-domestic facilities necessary to ensure the activity of the penal institution.

Within the framework of reforming and optimising the network of institutions of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine, the activities of the state institution ‘Zhovti Vody Penal Colony (No. 26)’ were optimised.

In connection with this, the performance of functions regarding the detention of convicts was terminated, and the convicts were transferred to other penal institutions.

After the cessation of activity for its primary purpose, the further use of the institution’s property complex and its legal status are determined by decisions of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and other authorised state bodies.

Thus, the state institution ‘Zhovti Vody Penal Colony (No. 26)’ belongs to the institutions of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine whose activities were terminated as a result of the optimisation of the penitentiary system.