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

Women in places of detention

Statistical data on the composition of convicted women and trends in their numbers from 1994 to 2012. Preliminary version

The Penal System in the First Half of 2012: Statistics

In the first half of 2012, an uncertain trend towards a decrease in the number of individuals in the country’s penitentiary institutions continued within the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine — exclusively due to a reduction in pre-trial detention centres.

The Ombudsman has initiated proceedings to verify the legality of the actions taken by special forces units at Kopychyntsi Correctional Colony No. 112

In order to urgently verify information disseminated on the Internet regarding the mass beating of convicts at Kopychyntsi Correctional Colony No. 112 in the Ternopil region, employees of the Department for the Implementation of the National Preventive Mechanism carried out an unannounced visit to this institution.

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

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

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.

Behind seven seals

Some issues of the activity of the penal system of Kazakhstan

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.

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.’