Fewer prisoners in Ukraine, more problems

The decline in the number of persons in places of detention in Ukraine continues.
As of 1 December 2014, 79,750 people were held in 177 institutions of the penitentiary service of Ukraine (here and further, a month ago — 84,663 people). This means that the number of prisoners per 100,000 population is 186 (197, on 1 January 2014 — 279).
At the same time, 16,501 people are held in pre-trial detention centres (16,866).
In criminal-executive institutions, there are 62,794 convicts (67,313) and another 455 people (484) in six educational colonies for minors.
In 14 colonies for women, 2,952 women are serving sentences (2,974), and 1,777 people (1,782 people) 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 88,632 convicts (89,536) sentenced to criminal penalties not related to deprivation of liberty and administrative sanctions.
The provided statistics do not include persons serving sentences in Crimea.
The question of transferring convicts from colonies in territories not controlled by the Ukrainian authorities to other parts of the country is being raised more and more often. Procedures for their transfer are being discussed, and even a couple of times the parties were close to achieving a result, but so far there have been no notable successes. Only the convicts of one colony — a women’s colony from the Luhansk region — have been transferred to Kharkiv.