MOSCOW, March 5 - RAPSI. Over 25,000 detention centers and prison employees were disciplined or fined last year, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said at a board meeting on Tuesday.

As many as 1,700 illegal orders and resolutions on levying penalties on convicts were annulled upon the requests of prosecutors, he said.

Substandard compliance with the law has led to increased tension between convicts and prison administrations in several regions.
One of the more high-profile cases was a riot in a prison in Kopeisk in the Chelyabinsk Region.

Over 200 convicts took part in a protest demanding a milder regime and the release of several inmates from punitive confinement. Their relatives later gathered outside the prison and 30 were arrested.

An investigation was launched in connection with the riot.

It is important to address all violations promptly to identify and fight corruption in the state penitentiary system, Chaika concluded.