“Route of Assistance” programme takes place in Khmelnytskyi region

A project aimed at providing legal assistance to prisoners preparing for release from places of detention through their participation in a resocialisation programme.

California wants to release 6,500 prisoners

The goal of the California state prison authorities' programme is to reduce the number of inmates in 33 California prisons by 6,500 people.

Grozny becomes advisor to Galinsky

Dmytro Hryhorovych Grozny has become the new advisor to the Chairman of the State Department of Ukraine for the Execution of Sentences, Oleksandr Iulianovych Halinsky.

Five years for an attempted escape

Convicts who were preparing an escape from a colony have received their punishment. Press release.

Charity event for 8 March

Members of the “Chernihiv Women’s Human Rights Centre” charitable organisation have organised and held a charity event to raise funds for the needs of the staff and convicts of the Chernihiv Women's Colony. PRESS RELEASE

Mr Stefanovsky maintains his standard

Do the institutions for the execution of punishments in the Volyn region need the help of public organisations, or how they kill the desire to help the criminal-executive system in Volyn.

Away from the GULAG! An outline of prison reform

The essence of the principle of moral idiocy in Ukrainian prisons lies in the denial of morality in the treatment of individuals whose conduct, by court decision, has been recognised as criminal. It is irrelevant that we will not find this in any regulatory act, yet such rules are cultivated daily by the prison administration organisation itself, where the pinnacle of morality is the Regulations on Service.

Ministry of Justice identifies 5 main problems of the penitentiary system

At least five problems in the activities of the criminal-executive service require priority and persistent efforts on the part of the state to resolve them. This was stated on 26 February by Minister of Justice Mykola Onishchuk, speaking at an expanded meeting of the board of the State Department of Ukraine for the Execution of Sentences.

Colony chief held accountable for illegal exploitation of prisoner labour

RUSSIA. The head of a Bashkir colony, Aleksandr Smiyan, has been found guilty of “abuse of office” for the illegal exploitation of prisoner labour for personal gain.

How observation commissions should look after women and children

On 16 February 2010, a training seminar was held at the Chernihiv Penal Colony, where women convicted multiple times are held.

Prison Monitoring

Preliminary report on the implementation of the project “Problems of creating a system of national preventive mechanisms for the prevention of torture”

Tymoshenko received 57% at polling stations in prisons

In particular, in absolute figures, this figure is 83,735 voters.