Public control in Russia

The Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation has begun the destruction of the system of public control over places of compulsory detention

The Cabinet of Ministers has improved the mechanism for public control over the observance of the rights of convicts

The Cabinet of Ministers has brought its own resolution of 1 April 2004, on the approval of the regulation on supervisory commissions, into compliance with the requirements of current legislation.

In the Berezhany educational colony, they will wear branded clothing from Holland

Nearly 200 wards of the Berezhany educational colony received clothing, footwear, and hygiene products

Two prisoners have died in a correctional colony in the Rivne region

In the Rivne region, two prisoners died in the Katerynivka correctional colony—one from a heart attack, and the other committed suicide.

Tatarstan. The Public Monitoring Commission may become controlled by the republic’s Ministry of Internal Affairs

Re-elections for members of Public Monitoring Commissions are underway in Russia. The Kazan Human Rights Centre expresses concern over the formation of the new composition of the ONK for monitoring the assurance of human rights in places of compulsory detention

‘Halfway House’ – a step towards a new life

The social rehabilitation centre ‘Halfway House’ is intended for women who are being released from places of detention or are serving sentences not involving imprisonment, who have nowhere to live. They will stay in the ‘Halfway House’ for up to six months.

CSSFCY of the Donetsk region in 2010

The Public Council under the department administration in the Donetsk region considered the issue of the work of the CSSFCY with institutions of the region

From the beggar’s sack and from prison...

On 1 October, the Dnipro District Court found the former head of the Daryivska Correctional Colony No. 10 guilty under Article 157 of the Criminal Code (obstruction of the exercise of electoral rights) and sentenced him to three years of restricted liberty, albeit with a suspended sentence.

Discussion of the Concept and monitoring visits at the Department

The International Society for Human Rights – Ukrainian Section (ISHR-US) held a training seminar on 13 October, with the support of the department, on issues of monitoring human rights observance.

Correctional institutions produced commercial goods worth 55 million UAH.

At the enterprises of correctional institutions of the Kharkiv region, commercial goods worth 55.2 million UAH were manufactured in the first 9 months of this year—152.5% of last year’s level

Officials were stealing food from prisoners: a ‘Holodomor’ was arranged in prisons

Officials of the State Department for the Execution of Sentences were stealing food from prisoners, declared Serhiy SYDORENKO, First Deputy Head of the State Department for the Execution of Sentences and Major-General of the Internal Service, at a press conference today.

There is a shortage of medical equipment and medicine in correctional institutions in the Rivne region

There is a shortage of equipment and medicine in correctional institutions of the Rivne region. Members of the medical commission of the Rivne Regional Council, who inspected two such institutions, reached this conclusion.