Activity of the Criminal-Executive System of Ukraine in January 2016

“Donetsk Memorial”

In January 2016, the number of prisoners in Ukraine continued to decline, albeit slowly: as of 1 February 2016, their number in 148 institutions of the penitentiary service – excluding 29 institutions in the occupied territories of Donbas – was 69,148 persons (a month ago – 69,997 persons; a year earlier, i.e., as of 01.01.2015 – 73,431 persons).
As of 1 February 2016, 16,393 persons were being held in custody in the 12 active pre-trial detention centres and 17 penal institutions with pre-trial detention functions (a month ago – 16,615 persons; a year earlier – 16,035 persons). Consequently, while the number of persons held in custody increased by 580 in 2015, it decreased by 222 in January 2016.
There are 52,755 convicts held in places of detention (as of 1 January 2016 there were 53,382 persons, and a year earlier – 57,396 persons).
The number of convicted persons decreased by 4,014 in 2015, and by 627 in January 2016.
In the six educational colonies for minors, 337 persons are serving sentences (a month ago – 348 persons, a year earlier – 442 persons, two years earlier – 893 persons).
In women’s colonies, 2,380 convicted women are held (a month ago 2,402 women, a year earlier 2,753 women, two years ago – 5,572 women).
The number of life-sentenced persons in institutions controlled by the authorities was 1,539 as of 1 February 2016 (as of 1 January 2016, 1,536 persons, including 23 women; as of 1 January 2015, 1,634 persons; as of 1 September 2014, there were 1,909 persons).
In the penal institutions of the criminal-executive system at the beginning of February 2016, the following were serving sentences:
– for intentional homicide: 10.4 thousand convicts (a month ago – 10.6 thousand persons; a year earlier – 14.2 thousand persons);
– for intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm: 4.7 thousand (4.7 thousand persons and 7.4 thousand persons);
– for robbery, larceny, and extortion: 13.1 thousand persons (13.5 thousand persons and 15.2 thousand persons).
As of 1 February 2016, 80,510 persons sentenced to criminal penalties not involving imprisonment and to administrative penalties were registered with the units of the criminal-executive inspection (as of 1 January 2016, there were 80,715 persons; as of 1 February 2015, this number was 76,148 persons).
The indicator of the number of prisoners per 100,000 population for Ukraine at the beginning of February 2016 is approximately 162-165. If we take into account the prisoners located in the 29 institutions of detention in the occupied territories of Donbas, where approximately 10,000 prisoners are held according to estimates, this figure would be approximately 185-190.