How the department fights corruption – the agency's version

Information on the state of work regarding adherence by the personnel of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine to the requirements of anti-corruption legislation for the second quarter of 2009

Problems of the conditionally released

The monitoring commission under the Donetsk Regional State Administration reviewed the issue of the activity of the region’s criminal-executive inspection and its work with persons released on parole.

The Minister of Justice has spoken about prison medicine reform

'We must draw systematic, truly global, and significant conclusions about how, and how effectively, the medical service and a number of other services are organised, which by definition must be provided to people who have ended up in places of deprivation of liberty against their will,' stated Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov.

The FSIN must be held accountable for the death of a prisoner in a remand prison

The Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Alexander Smirnov, confirmed that his agency was involved in the death of Hermitage Capital investment fund lawyer Sergey Magnitsky in the hospital at the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention centre.

Social assistance to convicted teenagers in the Donetsk region

An example of the interaction between social services, supervisory commissions, and the criminal executive inspection when working with minors convicted of offences not involving imprisonment.

More help for ex-convicts – fewer new crimes

More than 38,000 previously convicted persons are registered with internal affairs bodies in the Donetsk region. The supervisory commission under the Donetsk Regional State Administration considered the issue of the work of district police inspectors with previously convicted persons. The relevance of creating shelters for these individuals was noted.

The head of the Kaluga colony hid prisoners from a public commission

On 18 November, the Kaluga Public Oversight Commission inspected the Federal Budgetary Institution 'Correctional Colony No. 3' (FBU IK-3) in the village of Tovarkovo, which the observers were only able to enter after filing a complaint about being denied access to the colony with the special supervising prosecutor.

The state of crime in the Russian Federation for October 2009

A brief analysis of the state of crime

Christmas campaign 'MERCY TO CONVICTS'

From 21 December 2009 to 07 January 2010, the public organisation 'Aibolit', Simferopol, is holding a Christmas campaign.

Life behind seven locks

A visit by journalists to the Chervonopartizansk Women’s Colony No. 68, Luhansk Region

A 'fifth column' in the Kherson colony?

Declaring 'lawlessness' in the Kherson colony, the deputy head of the department refused to comment on the facts, and the human rights activist hid from the journalist

Not by word, but—by deed

The 'closed' 'prison' system, tired of waiting for the state to create a mechanism for regular visits to places where persons deprived of liberty are held, with the aim of preventing torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment, is itself introducing an element of a national preventive mechanism.