Korosten Correctional Colony (No. 71)
Korosten Correctional Colony (No. 71) is a medium-security correctional institution for holding men who have previously served sentences of imprisonment. The institution is located in the city of Korosten, Zhytomyr region, and is part of the structure of the State Criminal-Executive Service of Ukraine.
The history of the institution dates back to 1947, when a separate camp point No. 71 was created by order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR to support the construction of the Korosten Woodworking Combine. The first convicts were engaged in the construction of industrial facilities, housing, and the infrastructure of the future enterprise.
In subsequent decades, the institution repeatedly changed its status in accordance with the development of the criminal-executive system and legal reform, gradually transforming into a modern medium-security correctional colony. An important area of the colony’s activity traditionally remains the organisation of paid labour for convicts.
The institution’s production sector specialises in metalworking, the manufacture of agricultural machinery and spare parts, the casting of cast-iron products, the production of equipment for the agro-industrial complex, metal structures, and other industrial products. Over the decades of its existence, the production has repeatedly changed its specialisation in accordance with the economic needs of the state and the market.
Today, the activities of the institution are aimed at the execution of criminal sentences, ensuring safe conditions of detention for convicts, the organisation of social and educational work, vocational training, psychological support, and preparing convicts for a return to society after release.
Korosten Correctional Colony is regularly under the purview of the National Preventive Mechanism, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, and human rights organisations. During monitoring visits, the conditions of detention, the realisation of the right to work, medical provision, disciplinary practices, material and living conditions, the effectiveness of social and educational work, and other aspects of human rights compliance are assessed. Based on the results of monitoring visits in recent years, recommendations were provided to the institution regarding the further improvement of detention conditions, medical provision, ensuring proper payment for convicts' labour, the development of re-socialisation programmes, and bringing the institution’s activities into compliance with the requirements of the Criminal-Executive Code of Ukraine, the recommendations of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), and other international standards in the field of treatment of persons deprived of their liberty.
Contact information: State Institution “Korosten Correctional Colony (No. 71)”. Address: 11500, Zhytomyr region, Korosten, Bilokorovitske Shose Street, 4.
Head: Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Nikitchuk
Telephone: +38 (067) 367-22-53
Email: [email protected]