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What awaits the colonies in the ATO zone?

  Oleksandr Bukalov 
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The number of convicts in Ukraine reached 67,000, and the number of prisoners per 100,000 population is 197.

The decline in the number of persons in places of detention in Ukraine continues.
As of 1 November 2014, 84,663 people were held in 177 institutions of the penitentiary service of Ukraine (here and further, a month ago — 90,882). This means that the number of prisoners per 100,000 population is 197 (212, on 1 January 2014 — 279).
At the same time, 16,866 people are held in pre-trial detention centres (18,071), including 2,091 people at the pre-trial investigation stage (2,017).
In criminal-executive institutions, there are 67,313 convicts (72,273) and another 484 people (538) in six educational colonies for minors.
In 14 colonies for women, 2,974 women are serving sentences (3,182), and 1,782 people (1,906) are serving life sentences. 10.7 thousand people have been sentenced to a term of more than 10 years.
The criminal-executive inspection register contains 89,536 convicts (90,914) sentenced to criminal penalties not related to deprivation of liberty and administrative sanctions.
The provided statistics do not include persons serving sentences in Crimea.
A difficult situation is developing in the colonies of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. With great difficulty, it is possible to provide food to the institutions located in the territory not controlled by Ukrainian forces. However, the situation may change in connection with the adoption of the Presidential Decree on 15 November, which orders the removal of all budgetary institutions from the uncontrolled territory. Furthermore, in this same Decree, the President of Ukraine, among other things, defined: “The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine:
1) to immediately take measures to ensure the relocation of bodies and institutions of the State Criminal-Executive Service of Ukraine, convicts, and persons taken into custody from certain territories in the area of the anti-terrorist operation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions to other regions of Ukraine, and also to submit proposals on the amnesty of persons who are serving sentences in these institutions and were convicted for crimes of minor and medium severity”.
Whether this also applies to institutions in the uncontrolled territory is unclear.

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