Penal System of Russia

As of 1 September 2008, there were 893,100 people held in institutions of the Penal System (UIS), including 734,900 in 758 correctional colonies, 148,500 in 216 pre-trial detention centres, 7 prisons, and 164 facilities operating in SIZO mode, and 9,400 people in 62 educational colonies for minors. There are 67,200 convicted women in the institutions, and there are 11 infant homes attached to women's colonies, where 776 children reside.
Medical care for convicts and detainees is provided by 131 hospitals of various profiles, as well as medical units or health posts in each institution, 57 therapeutic correctional institutions for tuberculosis patients, and 9 therapeutic correctional institutions for drug addiction patients.

The UIS also includes 2,445 criminal-executive inspections, which have 590,700 people on record who have been sentenced to punishments not involving imprisonment.

The production potential of the UIS consists of 602 correctional institution enterprises (currently, 541 enterprises are in the process of liquidation, with labour adaptation centres and production workshops being created on their basis), 316 convict labour adaptation centres, 22 therapeutic workshops, and 21 educational-production workshops.

Attached to the correctional and educational colonies, there are 301 evening secondary schools and 447 educational-consultation points, 338 vocational schools, and 436 churches and 741 prayer rooms in operation.

The established staff size of the UIS is 327,900 people, including 264,800 certified officers.

Medical care for the staff is provided by 47 healthcare institutions, including 25 centres for medical and social rehabilitation, 13 hospitals, 6 military-medical commissions, and 3 sanatoriums.

The UIS includes 7 higher education institutions (with 7 branches), including the Academy of Law and Management of the Ministry of Justice of Russia, 1 legal college, 74 training centres, the Research Institute of the Penal System, the Research Institute of Information and Production Technologies with branches in the cities of Ivanovo, Vladimir, and Chelyabinsk, and 2 cadet boarding schools: the “Moscow Cadet Corps of Justice” and the “Simbirsk Cadet Corps of Justice”.

There is a Joint Editorial Office that publishes the magazines “Crime and Punishment” and “UIS Bulletin”, and the newspaper “Kazennyi Dom”.