In Russia, people are punished for non-fulfillment of a prosecutor’s requirements

The head of the correctional institution of the interregional tuberculosis hospital (Rostov region, RF) has been held administratively liable for non-fulfillment of a prosecutor’s legal requirement

TO THE ATTENTION OF MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES

PRESS RELEASE regarding the events in the Slavyanoserbsk Colony

A conflict of convicts or another beating?

In these very minutes—15:30 on 1 August 2011—a mass conflict involving convicts is taking place in the Slavyanoserbsk Colony IK-60 (Luhansk region).

‘Sentence’ to the penitentiary service of Ukraine

The State Programme for Improving Conditions of Detention for Convicts and Persons Held in Custody for 2006-2010 in our country was created and introduced with a noble humanitarian goal, taking into account Ukraine’s aspirations for a democratic life in the European community. However, an audit of the effectiveness of the use of budget funds allocated for the implementation of the programme, conducted by the Accounting Chamber, showed that the 130 million UAH directed towards programme activities over the last five years were used inefficiently, and the programme itself was a failure. None of its activities have been implemented.

Public denial of access to the colony confirms facts of torture—human rights defender

A representative of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group was not allowed onto the territory of the Dnipropetrovsk Penal Colony No. 89, where, according to human rights defenders, an incident involving the mass beating of prisoners occurred.

The Prosecution Service states that the special forces acted lawfully in the Dnipropetrovsk penal colony

The Prosecution Service assesses the actions of the special unit officers in the Dnipropetrovsk correctional colony as lawful.

The chief of the correctional department in the Dnipropetrovsk region has been dismissed for the beating of prisoners

The head of the management department for the execution of sentences in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Anatoliy Babets, has been dismissed.

The Prosecution Service states that the special forces acted lawfully in the Dnipropetrovsk penal colony

The Prosecution Service assesses the actions of the special unit officers in the Dnipropetrovsk correctional colony as lawful.

How to make money from a tender at the Department of Ukraine for the Execution of Sentences

A new way of combining the useful with the pleasant can be seen from the results of the procurement of anti-tuberculosis drugs by the Department of Ukraine for the Execution of Sentences in 2011

An unsuccessful escape attempt and its consequences

Several life-sentenced prisoners attempted an escape but were detained and allegedly severely beaten. And perhaps not only them.

Continuing the topic of the mass beating of prisoners in Colony 89

New details about the events

State Penitentiary Service special unit fighters are again maiming prisoners en masse

As has become known from unverified, but various sources, yesterday, 5 July 2011, in the afternoon, fighters of a special unit of the State Penitentiary Service committed another mass beating of convicts, this time at the 89th colony in the city of Dnipropetrovsk