Raikivtsi Correctional Colony (No. 78)
Raikivtsi Correctional Colony (No. 78) is a medium-security institution of the State Criminal-Executive Service of Ukraine, located in the village of Raikivtsi, Khmelnytskyi district, Khmelnytskyi region. Men sentenced to deprivation of liberty serve their sentences in the institution in accordance with the requirements of the Criminal-Executive Code of Ukraine. The history of the institution dates back to 1962, when the Raikivtsi General-Regime Correctional-Labour Colony was established on the basis of a former distillery, which had been built back in 1938.
Over the following decades, the colony transformed into one of the largest penitentiary complexes in the region, combining residential, production, social, and educational infrastructure. At various times, dormitories for convicts, a medical unit, a bath-laundry complex, a club, a canteen, a vocational school, production shops, administrative buildings, rooms for long-term and short-term visits, sports facilities, and other social infrastructure objects were constructed on the premises.
Significant development also took place in the residential settlement for the institution’s staff. In 1987, the regime type was changed from general to strict, and after the entry into force of the Criminal-Executive Code of Ukraine, the institution was brought into compliance with modern classifications and attained the status of a medium-security correctional colony. The production sector of the institution was traditionally one of the most developed in the region. Over the years, the enterprise specialised in metalworking, woodworking, the manufacturing of consumer goods, the production of garment products, leather processing, the processing of agricultural produce, and other areas of economic activity. A vocational educational institution functioned within the colony for the professional training of convicts.
Raikivtsi Correctional Colony (No. 78) is regularly monitored by the National Preventive Mechanism, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, and international and Ukrainian human rights organisations. During monitoring visits, assessments are made of the conditions of detention for convicts, the provision of the right to medical care, the exercise of the right to work, material and living conditions, disciplinary practices, access to education, social and educational work, and other aspects of human rights compliance. Following the monitoring visits of recent years, the institution has received recommendations regarding the improvement of detention conditions, medical provision, the organisation of convicts’ work, the development of resocialisation programmes, the ensuring of proper material and living conditions, and the alignment of the institution’s activities with the requirements of the Criminal-Executive Code of Ukraine, the practice of the European Court of Human Rights, the recommendations of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), and other international standards in the field of human rights protection.
Contact information: State Institution “Raikivtsi Correctional Colony (No. 78)”. Address: 31356, Khmelnytskyi region, Khmelnytskyi district, village of Raikivtsi, Parkova St., 9
Head: Turkot Viktor Anatoliiovych
Telephone: (0382) 62-40-05
Email: [email protected], [email protected]