In Kherson, a SIZO is being evacuated due to the emergency condition of the building

The leadership of the central apparatus of the Department for the Execution of Sentences, due to the emergency condition of detention block No. 2 of the Kherson pre-trial detention centre (SIZO), has made the decision to transfer 650 prisoners from the Kherson SIZO to similar institutions in Zaporizhia, Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kryvyi Rih, and Mykolaiv.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia has checked compliance with prisoners' right to medical care

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation has checked compliance with legal requirements regarding the provision of the right to qualified medical care for convicts and persons in custody in correctional facilities and pre-trial detention centres across 80 regions of the country.

Colonies in the Kharkiv region are provided with bread

All correctional facilities in the Kharkiv region will be fully provided with bread, regardless of whether flour prices rise due to a grain shortage or not.

“My soul has never seen such beauty anywhere”

For the first time in Ukraine, a camp has been organised for children whose parents are serving sentences in places of deprivation of liberty.

Life imprisonment proved to be an error

Citizen R. committed a crime two hours before the entry into force of a provision of the Criminal Code that provided for life imprisonment. In December 2009, the court replaced the initially imposed punishment – life imprisonment – with 15 years of deprivation of liberty. The text of the court decision is provided below.

When in Ukraine can corruption cost you your freedom?!

Every year, about 30,000 people are released on parole from Ukraine's prison system. Did approximately 90% of them gain their freedom thanks to corruption?!

‘We will put an end to brutality in camps and prisons’

It is possible that the only department in Russia undergoing real reform is the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN). A sensational interview with Vasily Bolshakov, Deputy Director of the FSIN

Failure to call witnesses to court is not always a violation of the Convention

The applicant received 9,000 euros in compensation for detention without a court decision. A description is provided of the European Court of Human Rights ruling in the case of 'Samoshenkov and Strokov v. Russia'

Torture by the police is not an isolated incident, but a systemic phenomenon

On 28 July at 10:30, the next “FIST” campaign begins

An exhibition of works by convicted minors will open at the Ukrainian House

On 23 July, an exhibition of works by convicted minors will open at the Ukrainian House in Kyiv within the framework of the project “Protection of the rights of at-risk children: a drawing competition among minors in penal institutions”.

Analysis of the website of the Department of Ukraine for the Execution of Punishments

Over the first 6 months of 2010, in the period from January to July, the website of the State Department of Ukraine for the Execution of Punishments presented 94 information reports

In Russian prisons, the scale of tuberculosis, HIV and syphilis incidence is close to an epidemic

Just under half — 340,000 out of 846,000 convicts in Russian correctional facilities suffer from some kind of disease