Raiky Correctional Colony (No. 73)
Raiky Correctional Colony (No. 73) is a medium-security correctional institution for holding men who have previously served sentences of imprisonment.
The institution is located in the Berdychiv district of the Zhytomyr region and is part of the structure of the State Criminal-Executive Service of Ukraine.
The colony was established in the early 1970s on the base of the Raiky stone-crushing plant, which was transferred to the system of execution of sentences bodies. Historically, the institution’s activities were closely tied to the extraction and processing of granite, which determined the colony’s industrial specialisation for many decades.
A feature of Raiky Correctional Colony is the operation of a specialised multi-profile medical institution of the penitentiary system on its premises. Since 1971, an inter-regional dermatovenereological hospital has operated here, providing specialised medical assistance to convicts sent from other correctional institutions and remand prisons in Ukraine. This makes the institution one of the core medical centres of the State Criminal-Executive Service.
An important area of the institution's activity remains the organisation of convict labour. The colony’s enterprise carries out the extraction and processing of granite, the manufacture of paving stones, kerb stones, crushed stone products, as well as the production of garment items, work footwear, personal protective equipment, and metal products.
The labour of convicts is organised in accordance with the requirements of criminal-executive legislation and is one of the key elements of their re-socialisation.
The institution 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 organisation of medical assistance, the realisation of the right to work, material and living provision, disciplinary practices, the activities of the specialised hospital, and other aspects of human rights compliance are assessed.
Based on the results of monitoring visits, recommendations are provided to the institution regarding the improvement of detention conditions, the provision of proper medical assistance, the refinement of working conditions, and the further bringing of 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 for the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty.
Contact information: State Institution “Raiky Correctional Colony (No. 73)”. Address: 13333, Zhytomyr region, Berdychiv district, village of Raiky, Tsentralna Street, 1.
Head: Viktor Petrovych Muts
Telephone: +38 (099) 408-95-43
Email: [email protected]