Infant – victim of inhumane treatment

In an application to the European Court of Human Rights against Ukraine concerning torture and inhumane treatment in a pre-trial detention centre (SIZO), a 5-month-old infant, S., and his 22-year-old mother, K., are suing the state.

The Committee Against Torture will visit Ukraine in 2013

A list of countries to be visited by the Committee Against Torture has been published

Crimean convicts threaten mass suicide

In Kerch Correctional Centre No. 139, prisoners are prepared to commit mass suicide as a protest against the new management of the penal institution

On the problems of organising the activities of supervisory commissions in Ukraine: the case of the Kharkiv region

The purpose of this article is to identify the problems in the organisation of the activities of the supervisory commissions of the Kharkiv region and to formulate some proposals for their resolution

Outsiders are not welcome here

Everything that we have learned about prisons in Russia over the last four years, we know from the Public Monitoring Commission (ONK). Hunger strikes, cutting veins in protest, criminal cases regarding riots and mass beatings of convicts, investigations into sudden deaths and suicides of inmates — members of the ONK tell us about all of this.

Online survey: what are the 3 most important criteria for rehabilitation according to you?

A trailer carrying prisoners overturned in Dnipropetrovsk Region

During unauthorised transport of prisoners from Ordzhonikidze Correctional Centre No. 79, the trailer became detached. Four sustained injuries due to trailer malfunction.

A 16-year-old prisoner hanged himself in a cell at Artemivsk pre-trial detention centre

Today, a juvenile detainee at Artemivsk pre-trial detention centre took his own life by hanging himself in his cell.

Vladimir Putin has abolished suspended sentences for repeat offenders

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed amendments to Article 73 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which exclude the possibility of suspended sentences for repeat offenders and individuals who have committed grave crimes.

Special forces enter rioting prison in St. Petersburg

More than a hundred officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs' penal system committee are participating in an operation at St. Petersburg’s Correctional Colony No. 6 in Obukhovo.

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