The regulation on the procedure for granting pardons has been updated

The President of Ukraine, by Decree of 16 September 2010, approved a new version of the Regulation. Commentary on the changes introduced to it

Visit of human rights defenders to the colony

PRESS RELEASE of the Administration of the department in the Zaporizhzhia region regarding the visit of human rights defenders to colony No. 101

A Mother and Child House has been opened in the correctional colony

A Mother and Child House has been opened in Chernihiv Colony No. 44

Training assembly of the Department's special units

Photo report.

CONCEPT for the reform of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine (criminal justice system) (draft)

Text of the draft Concept, which is currently being hastily discussed by government structures and officials.

Human rights training for prison staff

In Chernihiv, the second seminar of the training course ‘Human Rights Training in the Penal System of Ukraine’ was held as part of the all-Ukrainian educational programme ‘Understanding Human Rights’,

Training assembly of the Department's special units

Journalists and human rights activists observed the special units' training

The state must cultivate intolerance towards torture

How the Ministry of Justice is simulating steps aimed at fulfilling the requirements of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture

Field seminar of the Public Monitoring Commissions

From 15 to 17 September, a seminar for the chairpersons of the Public Monitoring Commissions of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation will be held in Sochi.

Three prisoners escaped from a children’s colony in Kremenchuk

On 9 August, around three o'clock in the morning, three prisoners escaped from the Kremenchuk children's colony.

In Kherson, a SIZO is being evacuated due to the emergency condition of the building

The leadership of the central apparatus of the Department for the Execution of Sentences, due to the emergency condition of detention block No. 2 of the Kherson pre-trial detention centre (SIZO), has made the decision to transfer 650 prisoners from the Kherson SIZO to similar institutions in Zaporizhia, Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kryvyi Rih, and Mykolaiv.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia has checked compliance with prisoners' right to medical care

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation has checked compliance with legal requirements regarding the provision of the right to qualified medical care for convicts and persons in custody in correctional facilities and pre-trial detention centres across 80 regions of the country.