1,000 prisoners at the Kopychyntsi colony in the Ternopil region are threatening mass suicide!

Prisoners at Kopychyntsi Correctional Colony No. 112 are shouting “SOS!” – this morning, their relatives received alarming messages on their phones regarding the mass beating of convicts.

The SBU is investigating the disclosure of state secrets by the head of a correctional colony in the Donetsk region

Unlawful activity was committed by the head of one of the institutions of the Department of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine in the Donetsk region

A version of events in the Donetsk pre-trial detention centre

Valetov was held in cell 212. He was being transferred to another and was being led to post 25

Another death in the dungeons of Donetsk

A prisoner has died in the Donetsk pre-trial detention centre. Relatives of the deceased claim that 28-year-old Roman Valetov was beaten in his cell.

Emergency at a Ryazan girls' penal colony

A hunger strike began among the inmates following a fight. The cause of the strike was the dismissal of the colony’s warden

Criminal case opened into the murder of a prisoner in a colony near Kyiv

Taras Voytsekhovsky died in a detention centre. The Prosecutor's Office has opened a criminal case in connection with the death of a convict at the Bucha Correctional Colony

Secret video and photo footage from behind bars – can they be trusted?

A round-table discussion with this title took place during Docudays UA on 26 March. The round table began with a viewing of photographs and video clips depicting convicts in prison cells – with signs of beatings, bruises, and cuts.

Labour in places of deprivation of liberty

The Penal Code contains contradictory regulations regarding the labour of convicts. This contradiction in regulations sometimes gives rise to misunderstandings. What questions arise most often for those convicts who have work?

Tuberculosis patients have declared a riot in the Dnipropetrovsk colony

Tuberculosis patients have declared a riot in the Dnipropetrovsk colony

The European Court has ordered Ukraine to pay €5,000 to a Ukrainian citizen for restricting family visits to prison and monitoring his correspondence

The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Ukraine to pay €5,000 in compensation for moral damages caused to 43-year-old Oleh Trosin by the restriction of family visits and the reading of his correspondence in prison.

An important court ruling in Russia

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has permitted lawyers to bring dictaphones and cameras into correctional facilities

Ukraine is fourth on the list of respondents to the European Court

Ukraine ranks fourth in the number of cases being considered by the European Court of Human Rights.