From the beggar’s sack and from prison...

On 1 October, the Dnipro District Court found the former head of the Daryivska Correctional Colony No. 10 guilty under Article 157 of the Criminal Code (obstruction of the exercise of electoral rights) and sentenced him to three years of restricted liberty, albeit with a suspended sentence.

A Week of Visits to Police Departments in Ryazan: Initial Results

An action called "A Week of Visits to Police Departments" took place from 18 to 24 October simultaneously in 16 regions of Russia, including Ryazan region. The action is based on the idea that anyone who wishes can visit the nearest police department and observe its activities, assess the level of law enforcement services provided.

Interview with the Head of the State Department Office for Implementation of Sentences in Kharkiv Region

A. Slipchenko: I have been entrusted with the leadership of the regional office for the implementation of sentences, and I believe that we will be able to raise the work of the structure to a higher level

Does Personnel Have Knowledge of Human Rights?

"When turning to local courts, with the purpose of resolving a public-law dispute between a prisoner and the administration of the colony, prisoners receive the response that the materials have been sent to the prosecutor's office, as the supervisory body over the implementation of legality during the serving of sentences. Thus, prisoners are deprived of the opportunity to protect their interests in court." Report at the conference "Development of Human Rights Education in Penitentiary Institutions of Ukraine"

Discussion of the Concept and monitoring visits at the Department

The International Society for Human Rights – Ukrainian Section (ISHR-US) held a training seminar on 13 October, with the support of the department, on issues of monitoring human rights observance.

Correctional institutions produced commercial goods worth 55 million UAH.

At the enterprises of correctional institutions of the Kharkiv region, commercial goods worth 55.2 million UAH were manufactured in the first 9 months of this year—152.5% of last year’s level

Officials were stealing food from prisoners: a ‘Holodomor’ was arranged in prisons

Officials of the State Department for the Execution of Sentences were stealing food from prisoners, declared Serhiy SYDORENKO, First Deputy Head of the State Department for the Execution of Sentences and Major-General of the Internal Service, at a press conference today.

Alexander Reimer: All is Well, My Dear Marquise…

The Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, Alexander Reimer, answered questions from readers of the Russian Gazette, received during a "Business Breakfast". At what cost is a detainee held per day? Where and to whom can one complain about local heads of the penitentiary service? Who is responsible for the loss of a convicted person's passport? The answers (with minor omissions) follow below.

There is a shortage of medical equipment and medicine in correctional institutions in the Rivne region

There is a shortage of equipment and medicine in correctional institutions of the Rivne region. Members of the medical commission of the Rivne Regional Council, who inspected two such institutions, reached this conclusion.

Crimes of Ukrainian Internal Affairs Officers: Analysis of Stable Trends

In total, during the period from 1992 to 2010 in Ukraine, more than 9,626 criminal cases were initiated based on facts of unlawful actions of internal affairs officers, as a result of investigation of which courts handed down convictions against 4,999 persons.

The regulation on the procedure for granting pardons has been updated

The President of Ukraine, by Decree of 16 September 2010, approved a new version of the Regulation. Commentary on the changes introduced to it

The number of prisoners is increasing. Ukraine’s prisons in the first half of 2010

Over the half-year of 2010, the number of people held in places of detention increased by 3,008 people (+2.04%) and amounted to 150,724 people as of 01/07/2010. The trend towards an increase in the prison population, which emerged in 2009, continued in the first half of 2010.