Held for years without trial in Odesa SIZO

Lawyers advise taking cases to international courts to seek compensation

Report on Torture

Monitoring the use of torture in the penal system of the Chelyabinsk Region. Press release of the Ural Democratic Foundation

Russian Prisons. Statistics

Brief overview of the penal system of the Russian Federation as of 1 August 2013

Ukrainian prisons are emptying

The number of inmates in pre-trial detention centres in Ukraine continues to fall

‘Humanism’ measured in the hundreds

Under the ‘economic amnesty’ in Russia, not even thousands, but only a couple of hundred people will be released. In fact, the latest ‘Putin amnesty’ has turned out to be as empty as the amnesty timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Victory Day, when only a few people were released from places of detention.

Parliamentary hearings on the observance of human rights in Ukraine. How the penitentiary system was presented

On Wednesday, 12 June 2013, Parliamentary hearings were held in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the topic of human rights observance in the country.

8 May – Day of the Operational Worker of the Penal Enforcement System of Russia

The official day of the creation of the operational units of the Penal Enforcement System (UIS) is considered to be 8 May 1935

About 4,000 people died in prisons over the year

According to the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia, 3,907 people died in correctional institutions in 2012.

Problems of those being released

Roundtable ‘Problems of social adaptation of persons who have served criminal sentences’. Press release

Sad statistics of the police and the penitentiary service

Every year, 19 police officers commit suicide

The penal enforcement system of Ukraine in 2012. PRESS RELEASE

The main results of the activities of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine in 2012 are presented

Training on ‘The Right to Information’ for convicts

On 22 January 2013, a training session with convicted women was held in the Chernihiv Correctional Colony. Press release