Mariupol Correctional Centre No. 138

State Institution "Mariupol Correctional Centre (No. 138)" was part of the structure of the State Criminal-Executive Service of Ukraine and was an open-type institution intended for the execution of sentences in the form of restriction of liberty in accordance with the requirements of Ukraine's criminal-executive legislation.

The institution ensured proper conditions for the detention of convicts, the organization of their labour, vocational training, and social-educational work aimed at the resocialization of persons sentenced to punishments not involving isolation from society.

As part of the reform and optimization of the network of institutions of the State Criminal-Executive Service of Ukraine, the activities of State Institution "Mariupol Correctional Centre (No. 138)" were terminated.

Following this, the institution was effectively not used for the execution of criminal sentences.

After the start of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the occupation of the city of Mariupol in 2022, the institution's property complex found itself in the temporarily occupied territory.

In this regard, state authorities of Ukraine do not have the ability to exercise control over the state of the institution's facilities and obtain reliable information regarding their subsequent use.

Thus, State Institution "Mariupol Correctional Centre (No. 138)" belongs to those institutions of the State Criminal-Executive Service of Ukraine whose activities were optimized, and whose property complex, after 24 February 2022, found itself in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.