Picket in defence of the right to collective hunger strikes

In Russia, human rights activists demand the protection of the right of prisoners to hunger strikes

Reform of the Criminal Executive Code of Ukraine.

‘Round table’ on the topic of preparing amendments to the Criminal Executive Code of Ukraine

NO RADICAL POSITIVE CHANGES ARE OCCURRING IN THE PENAL SYSTEM, WHILE ALARMING TRENDS ARE INTENSIFYING.

On 15 September, a press conference was held in Kyiv by the human rights organisation ‘Donetsk Memorial’ on the topic ‘Violation of Prisoners’ Rights: 2011 Trends’, where statistical data for the first half of 2011 were presented and examples of human rights violations in 2011 were cited.

‘Music will help those who have stumbled to recover’

On 7 September, a new social-rehabilitation project for Ukraine, ‘With Music in the Heart’, aimed at the social rehabilitation of convicts, kicked off in Kharkiv.

The Penal System in the first half of 2011: statistics.

Half-year results: the number of prisoners increased by 3.9%, suicides - by 22%, and mortality - by 45%.

Events in Colony No. 60. Versions of events.

The conflict arose with the connivance of the colony leadership.

Regarding the events in Colony No. 60 of the Luhansk Region

One of the versions of the causes of the conflict

Chief jailer of Khabarovsk Krai shot himself in his office when detectives arrived

Head of the Federal Penitentiary Service (UFSIN) for Khabarovsk Krai, Vladimir Konetskikh, has been found dead in Khabarovsk.

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.