On changes to the Instruction on the inspection of correspondence of convicts

For two and a half years, the Department refused to acknowledge that it was violating human rights. And this is just regarding the regulation of correspondence.

WE ARE ASKING FOR HELP!

An appeal to 'Donetsk Memorial': 'We believe that the detention regime in the Dnipropetrovsk Correctional Colony No. 89 in the maximum-security sector is designed to destroy the life-term prisoners held there. We are asking for your help!'

The President has pardoned 60 convicts

Since the beginning of the year, the President has signed seven Decrees pardoning 575 people.

Once More Regarding Parcels and Deliveries for Convicts

As of today, both the Criminal Executive Code of Ukraine and a Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine exist; they simultaneously, yet differently, regulate the right of convicts to receive parcels (deliveries) and small packages.

Human Rights Watch Calls on Vinnytsia Prison Officials Not to Sue Human Rights Defenders

Prison authorities in Vinnytsia must immediately withdraw their lawsuit against the Vinnytsia Human Rights Group. This is stated in a declaration by the international organization Human Rights Watch, the text of which is at the disposal of UNIAN.

The Inaction of Certain Officials Provokes Inaction Among Prisoners

The Public Council under the Departmental Administration in the Donetsk Region considered the issue of establishing educational institutions in colonies

In the Mykytivka colony, malicious regime violators scratched themselves

In the Mykytivka general-regime colony (city of Horlivka, Donetsk region), 9 prisoners staged a group act of self-harm.

The Public in the OSCE Project

During 2007–2008, within the framework of the “Development of Civil Society in Ukraine” project, implemented by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and ISAR “Ednannia” with the financial support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Charitable Foundation “Samodopomoha” carried out the project “Assisting the Public in Protecting Human Rights in Penitentiary Institutions of the Lviv Region”.

“Men Against Violence” – in Correctional Colonies

The Kherson public organization “Men Against Violence” has been working for over a year with convicts located in the correctional colonies of our region. During this time, a documentary film, “Doors”, was shot, and a “Guide for People Released from Places of Deprivation of Liberty” was developed and printed.

Blood in the isolation ward...

In the Sverdlovsk high-security colony No. 38 (Luhansk region), a mass suicide attempt by prisoners in the isolation ward occurred.

Know-how from “beloved friends” – repressive lawsuits against human rights organizations

The Vinnytsia city public organization “Vinnytsia Human Rights Group” announces that a lawsuit has been filed against it in civil court proceedings by the Stryzhavka Correctional Colony of the administration of the State Department of Ukraine for the Execution of Punishments in the Vinnytsia region (No. 81).

Third Place for “the Ninetieth”.

This year, the enterprises of forty-six correctional colonies (CC) of Ukraine participated in a competition for the best production organization in the penitentiary system. And Northern CC No. 90, which is located in Kherson, took third place.