Government submits to State Duma bill permitting convicts serve sentences near homeRussia’s government has asked the State Duma to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure to the effect that it included an option allowing to transfer convicts to penitentiary facilities located near places of residence of their relatives.14:15 25.07.2019
Russian Justice Ministry works on improvement of disabled detainees’ conditionsThe Justice Ministry of Russia is developing a bill to improve detention conditions for disabled persons of groups I and II.10:44 23.07.2019
Russian inmates to be allowed to work outside penal coloniesA bill on labour of non-serious crimes convicts outside penal colonies has become law.11:32 19.07.2019
Russian Finance Ministry to pay detention torture victim $5,000A court in Chita, a city in Russia’s Trans-Baikal Territory, has ordered the Finance Ministry to pay 300,000 rubles (about $5,000) to ex-inmate Denis Katrin for tortures in detention.12:13 17.07.2019
Moskalkova seeks observance of rights of Russians jailed in UkraineRussia’s Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova on Tuesday gave Ukrainian ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova a list of Russian inmates jailed in Ukraine and asked her to grant aid in the observance of their rights.16:58 16.07.2019
Number of detainees drops in Russia – human rights advocateThe number of people held in Russian detention centers has decreased, according to a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Eva Merkacheva.15:12 16.07.2019
Upper house of Russian parliament backs draft law on non-serious crimes convicts’ labourMembers of the upper house of Russian parliament on Wednesday supported a legislative proposal to allow non-serious crimes convicts to be engaged in labour outside penal colonies.18:09 10.07.2019
Russian football stars Kokorin, Mamayev convoyed to penal colonyRussian footballers Alexander Kokorin and Pavel Mamayev along with two accomplices on Thursday were transported to a penal colony to serve their sentence.15:30 04.07.2019
Ex-penitentiary official’s accessory to embezzlement to be released from prisonThe Moscow City Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal filed by Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service against parole of an accomplice of ex-FSIN deputy chief Oleg Korshunov, entrepreneur Marina Dyukova convicted of embezzlement.14:34 04.07.2019
Ex-penitentiary officer’s sentence in prisoner torture case mitigatedThe Supreme Court of Russia’s Republic of Khakassia has reduced a 5-year prison sentence of ex-penal colony officer Dmitry Zolotukhin convicted of torturing an inmate by 2 months.14:57 28.06.2019
Former Russian penitentiary official sentenced to 3.5 years for briberyThe Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg on Thursday found ex-deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Nikolay Barinov guilty of taking about 110 million rubles (about $2 million) in bribes during a detention center construction and sentenced him to 3.5 years in high security prison.16:41 20.06.2019
Russian child rights ombudsman says 12% of minor convicts are orphansIn 2018, 12% of minor convicts held in young offender colonies were orphans, Russia’s child rights ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova said on Wednesday.17:35 19.06.2019
Russian Supreme Court backs ban on cages in courtroomsThe Supreme Court of Russia supports an initiative to abolish restrictions in the form of placing suspects and defendants in cages in courtrooms, the court’s Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev told journalists on Tuesday.15:46 18.06.2019
Titov seeks to check confinement of two businessmen in one detention cell with murdererRussian business ombudsman Boris Titov has requested penitentiary authorities to check the fact of placing two businessmen charged with fraud in one detention cell with a man earlier convicted of murder.12:46 17.06.2019
Putin enacts control over medical treatment of drug-addicted convictsPresident of Russia Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a bill establishing a procedure of the control over mandatory undertaking treatment by convicted drug addicts into law.15:17 07.06.2019
Leningrad Region ombudsman seeks to cease convicts’ transfers to other regionsOmbudsman of the Leningrad Region Sergey Shabanov has asked the Federal Penitentiary Service’s director Gennady Kornienko to give up on the practice of transfer of convicts, whose sentence has not taken effect, to detention centers in other regions.13:25 07.06.2019
Ex-employee of Moscow detention center gets 4 years for taking bribesThe Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow has sentenced ex-employee a detention center Yekaterina Kravchuk to 4 years behind bars for taking bribes.18:13 31.05.2019
State Duma adopts bill on control over medical treatment of drug-addicted convictsThe State Duma passed a government bill establishing a procedure of the control over mandatory undertaking treatment by convicted drug addicts in a final third reading on Tuesday.15:09 28.05.2019
Trial of ex-penitentiary official charged with bribery to be held in prison hospitalTrial of ex-deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Nikolay Barinov charged with taking about 110 million rubles (about $2 million) in bribes during a detention center construction will be held in a prison hospital because of his poor health.13:50 21.05.2019
Ex-Russian penitentiary official charged with bribery goes on trialA criminal case against ex-deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Nikolay Barinov charged with receiving about 110 million rubles (about $2 million) in bribes during the construction of a detention center has reached court.13:01 13.05.2019