Over 100 complaints about social security filed by convicts in 2018 - Russia’s OmbudsmanLast year, Russia’s Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova received 141 applications from convicts on issues related to their social welfare.15:01 16.09.2020
About 200,000 persons yearly released from penitentiary facilities in Russia - officialYearly, about 200,000 convicts are being released from penitentiary facilities; the major question in the penitentiary practice is what they are to do after that, how they are to live, Deputy Head of the Department for Organizational and Analytical Support of the Directorate for Educational, Social, and Psychological Work of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Sergey Gudin said addressing participants of the All-Russian Conference on Resocialization and Adaptation of Convicted Citizens hosted by Russia’s Civic Chamber on Wednesday.13:06 16.09.2020
Russian Justice Ministry strives to protect prisoners’ housing accommodationsThe Justice Ministry of Russia has drafted a bill on protection of housing of imprisoned convicts.16:19 10.09.2020
Russia’s Ombudsman proposes establishment of new female reform facilities in TatarstanRussian Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova has proposed to create new correctional facilities for women in Tatarstan so they could serve their terms closer to their places of residence at her meeting with Head of the Republic Rustam Minnikhanov.12:39 08.09.2020
Penal facilities in St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region lack mother-and-child homes – ombudsmanCorrectional institutions of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region have no functioning facilities where women giving birth in penal colonies could live with their children, the Office of St. Petersburg Rights Commissioner Alexander Shishlov informs RAPSI on Wednesday.12:08 02.09.2020
Ex-Leningrad Region penitentiary official imprisoned for 15 years for murder organizationThe Leningrad Regional Court based on a guilty verdict of jurors sentenced ex-deputy chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s (FSIN) St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region directorate Sergey Moiseyenko to 15 years in high-security prison for organization of assassination against his subordinate.17:18 25.08.2020
Ex-chief of Tyumen penal colony ordered to 8-year jail for bribetakingA court in Russia’s Tyumen has sentenced a fomer chief of a local penal colony to 8 years behind bars for receiving bribes worth over 11.8 million rubles ($161,000) from inmates and their acquaintances.13:26 19.08.2020
Former penitentiary employee jailed for 7.5 years for briberyA court in Russia’s Republic of Mordovia has sentenced a former penitentiary employee for taking a bribe.16:40 17.08.2020
Ex-employee of Zabaikalye penal colony jailed for 4.5 years in bribery caseA court in Russia’s Zabaikalsky Krai has sentenced a former employee of one of the regional penal colonies to 4.5 years in jail for taking bribes from a convict.14:32 13.08.2020
Ex-penitentiary officer gets 5.5 years in penal colony for briberyA court in the Tula Region has sentenced a former officer of the Federal Penitentiary Service to 5.5 years in penal colony for bribery and abuse of power.16:22 04.08.2020
Ex-journalist Safronov charged with treason tests negative for COVID-19 – ombudsmanTwo coronavirus tests ex-journalist Ivan Safronov charged with treason had passed gave negative results, Russia’s High Commissioner for Human Rights announced Friday citing a chief of Moscow’s Lefortovo detention center.11:03 31.07.2020
Russia’s penitentiary official put in detention on charges of abuse of officeChief of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s State Property and Housing Maintaining Sergey Verzhevikin was placed in detention until September 21, RAPSI was told in the press service of the Savelovsky District Court of Moscow on Friday. The official is charged with abuse of office resulted in grave circumstances.11:44 24.07.2020
State Duma MPs back mitigation of punishment for convicted mothers, pregnant womenA bill mitigating punishment for pregnant women and women with children under the age of three years convicted of non-serious crimes passed second and third readings in the State Duma.17:04 21.07.2020
Two officers of Moscow detention center taken into custody in $70,000 bribery caseTwo officers of Moscow city detention center Matrosskaya Tishina have been taken into custody on charges of taking bribes from detainees totaling to 5 million rubles (about $70,000) for supplying them with prohibited articles.12:06 17.07.2020
Russia’s penal colony for TBC patients ordered by court to set up quarantine wardThe Mariinsk City Court in the Kemerovo Region has obliged a local medical penitentiary facility for inmates with an active form of tuberculosis to create a probationary ward for newcomers.11:39 09.07.2020
Former regional penitentiary official sentenced to 8.5 years for briberyA court in Russia’s town of Tambov has sentenced a former deputy chief of the regional directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service to 8.5 years in a high-security prison for receiving a 400,000-ruble bribe ($5,500).17:42 06.07.2020
Ex-penitentiary officer gets 5 years for selling mobile phones to inmatesA court in the Kaluga Region has sentenced a former chief of a penal colony to 5 years in jail for selling 10 mobile phones to prisoners.16:56 04.06.2020
Ex-penitentiary employee ordered to 5-year jail for taking bribes from inmateA court in the Tula Region has sentenced a former penitentiary officer to 5 years in jail for receiving bribes from an inmate.15:15 21.05.2020
Released convicts complain about lack of jobs, housing, and subsistenceRussia’s Ombudsman office receives applications from convicts who have recently served their terms seeking help as to jobs, housing, and subsitence, according to a member of Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova’s staff.13:02 21.05.2020
Russian rights advocates push for more releases on parole during pandemicMembers of the Presidential Council for Human Rights plan to turn to the Supreme Court of Russia with the request to recommend courts to extend the practice of releases on parole during the coronavirus pandemic.14:34 23.04.2020