Russian Prisons. Statistics

According to the statistical data provided on the website of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, as of 1 August 2013, the institutions of the penal system held
682,900 people (-19,000 people compared to the beginning of the year), including:
565,700 people serving sentences in 736 correctional colonies
(-19,300 people), including:
- 39,300 people serving sentences in 128 open prisons (colony-settlements)
(-143 people);
- 1,844 people serving sentences in 5 correctional colonies for prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment (+25 people).
114,000 people were held in 229 pre-trial detention centres (remand prisons) and 166 facilities operating
as pre-trial detention centres at colonies
(+391 people).
1,090 people were serving sentences in 8 prisons (+194 people).
2,000 people in 46 juvenile correctional facilities
(-223 people).
The institutions held 56,300 women (-1,382 people),
including 46,200 convicts held in correctional colonies, medical-correctional facilities, and medical-preventive facilities, and 10,100 people held under the preventive measure of detention; at the female colonies, there are 13 mother-and-baby homes, housing 762 children.
Medical care for convicts and remand prisoners is provided by 133 hospitals of various profiles, as well as medical units or health posts
in every institution, 59 medical-correctional institutions for tuberculosis patients, and 9 medical-correctional institutions for drug-addicted patients.
The penal system also includes:
2,459 criminal executive inspectorates, which register
462,700 people sentenced to non-custodial penalties;
53 state unitary enterprises of correctional institutions,
587 convict labour adaptation centres, 52 medical-rehabilitative and 41 vocational-production workshops.
At correctional and juvenile colonies, there are
319 evening secondary schools and 549 educational counselling centres, 333 vocational-technical schools and 302 separate structural units, as well as 555 churches and 702 prayer rooms.
The authorised staff strength of the penal system is 327,100 people, including 236,900 commissioned officers (plus a variable staff of 7,200 people).
Medical care for staff is provided by 56 healthcare institutions, including 34 medical and social rehabilitation centres, 14 hospitals, 5 military-medical commissions, and 3 health resorts (sanatoriums).
The penal system comprises 8 higher professional education institutions with 7 branches, including the Academy of Law and Administration, 74 training centres and points, an institute for advanced training, a research institute of the penal system, and a research institute of information technologies.
There is a Joint Editorial Office publishing the magazines ‘Crime
and Punishment’ and ‘Vedomosti UIS’ [Gazette of the Penal System], and the newspaper ‘Kazyonny Dom’ [The State House].