North-Eastern Interregional Directorate

The North-Eastern Interregional Directorate for the Execution of Criminal Sentences of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine is a territorial management body of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine, which ensures the implementation of state policy in the field of the execution of criminal sentences and probation on the territory of the north-eastern region of Ukraine. The sphere of coordination of the directorate includes institutions for the execution of sentences, pre-trial detention centres, authorised probation bodies, and other units of the State Penitentiary Service located in the Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions.

The main tasks of the directorate are the organisation of the activities of subordinate institutions, control over compliance with legislation in the field of the execution of criminal sentences, ensuring proper conditions for the detention of convicts and persons taken into custody, coordination of personnel work, material and technical support, medical services, and the implementation of state policy in the field of the re-socialisation of convicts.

With the beginning of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the directorate has played an important role in ensuring the continuous operation of penitentiary institutions in border regions, the organisation of evacuation measures, responding to emergencies, and maintaining an appropriate level of security in the institutions of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine.

Contact information: North-Eastern Interregional Directorate for the Execution of Criminal Sentences of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, Region of activity: Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions.

Telephone: (057) 732-16-16 E-mail: [email protected]