MOSCOW, October 26 (RAPSI) – A court in Russia’s Tyumen Region on Monday sentenced three confined persons, who had assaulted detention center’s employees to 2 years in a high-security penal colony, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office reports.

The defendants were found guilty of disorganization of the operation of confinement institutions.

The court found that on July 7, 2019, the defendants locating in a local detention center when being convoyed to a walking yart committed an attack against two penitentiary officers using force against them. They were stopped by other officers, the statement reads.