Justice, Chernihiv-style

Police officers forced a woman to take the blame for six unsolved thefts. They compelled her to write a confession, to admit that she had stolen three mobile phones from different people in different parts of Chernihiv, one of which cost 6,500 hryvnias, two bicycles, and even 20 tulips and 213 crocuses from a flowerbed on the Alley of Heroes.

Women's Correctional Colonies of Ukraine

Description of detention conditions in each of the 13 women's correctional colonies

Some aspects of the organisation of correctional colonies for the detention of convicted women

Ensuring the conditions of detention for convicted women by the State Penitentiary Service

Detention of women in police facilities

Problems of detaining women in police facilities and recommendations for their resolution

‘The pressure begins the moment you arrive in the zone’

Torture and extortion are practised in Chelyabinsk Colony No. 6 (Russia), inmates claim

Behind seven seals

Some issues of the activity of the penal system of Kazakhstan

Letter to Mr Shtanko regarding the Open Appeal from staff by the head of ‘Donetsk Memorial’

I cannot but agree with your bitter words: ‘But today, the penitentiary system is becoming a hostage to political games instead of focusing its efforts on building a civilised penitentiary system in Ukraine that would comply with universally recognised European standards for the observance of human rights.’

OPEN APPEAL

OPEN APPEAL from the staff and veterans of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine

Modern Trends in the Development of the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners

The group of experts recognised the need to revise certain areas of the Standard Minimum Rules for possible consideration in order to reflect in the Rules the latest scientific developments and best practices in the field of penal institution operations.

Non-Governmental Organisations and the Penal System

An overview of the 2011 activities of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working within the penal system sector. The report describes the results of the activities of 23 NGOs.

On the other side of the barbed wire

Human rights defenders note a deterioration in the situation regarding the provision of the elementary rights of prisoners and a limitation of public control over the criminal-executive service – as a result, there is an increase in the frequency of torture and a sharp rise in the mortality rate in prisons

Lighting for prisoners – a demand or a right

On the issue of using lighting and means of surveillance and control in penal institutions and pre-trial detention centres of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine