Probe into ex-St. Petersburg penitentiary official accused of $11k graft completedInvestigation into a 710,000-ruble ($11,000) bribery case against ex-deputy chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s (FSIN) St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region directorate Sergey Moiseyenko has been completed,.14:00 07.11.2019
Supreme Court of Russia vacates ex-penitentiary official’s acquittal in murder caseThe Russian Supreme Court has overturned acquittal of the former deputy chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s (FSIN) St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region directorate Sergey Moiseyenko in a case over organization of assassination against his subordinate.18:00 06.11.2019
Former Ural penitentiary official gets 5.5 years for taking bribesA court in Kurgan, a city in Russia’s Ural, has sentenced a former chief of the regional directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Ilgiz Ilyasov to 5.5 years in penal colony for corruption.15:15 30.10.2019
State Duma backs bill on better jail conditions for convicted mothers, pregnant womenA bill improving custodial conditions for pregnant women and mothers with kids passed its first reading in the State Duma on Thursday.15:57 24.10.2019
Ex-chief of penitentiary-related organization faces trial on document forgery chargesMoscow’s Lyublinsky District Court will consider a criminal case against ex-chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service’s (FSIN) Central base of material, technical and military supply Vladimir Kriskevich, who stands charged with falsification of accounting documents.17:38 09.10.2019
Bill on tougher punishment for sending prohibited parcels to prisoners rejectedThe State Duma on Tuesday threw a bill increasing fines for sending parcels containing prohibited items to prisoners and detainees.17:15 08.10.2019
About 300 complaints of tortures in penitentiary facilities filed with Moskalkova in 2019Russia’s federal human rights commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova has received 291 complaints related to the use of force and special tools in penitentiary facilities since the beginning of 2019.10:56 08.10.2019
Ex-employee of Moscow detention center to stand trial on drug possession chargesMoscow’s Dorogomilovsky District Court will consider a criminal case against a former employee of the city’s Butyrka detention center charged with illegal drug possession.15:31 07.10.2019
Convicted orphans may be relieved from reimbursement of household costs - billLawmakers from the United Russia party have submitted a bill on certain benefits for convicted orphaned children to the State Duma.17:37 04.10.2019
Russian penal colony for life convicts inspected by human rights council memberA member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Andrey Babushkin has visited with inspection a penal colony for life convicts in the Orenburg Region known as Black Dolphin Prison.15:34 24.09.2019
Russian MPs propose to isolate convicted crime bosses from other prisonersA group of Russian MPs submitted a bill on separate confinement of people convicted of occupying a top position in the criminal hierarchy to the State Duma.12:49 23.09.2019
Mother of defunct detainee to receive $8k compensation from penitentiary medical unitThe St. Petersburg City Court ordered a penitentiary medical unit to pay 500,000 rubles (about $8,000) in compensation to the mother of a detainee, who had died from failure to provide medical aid in the detention center Kresty.13:44 17.09.2019
Russian football stars Kokorin, Mamayev freed from prisonFootball players Alexander Kokorin and Pavel Mamayev were released from a Belgorod Region prison on Tuesday.10:22 17.09.2019
Russian children’s ombudsman proposes amnesty for convicted minors and womenRussia’s child rights commissioner Anna Kuznetsova has forwarded a proposal for amnesty of certain inmates including minors and woman having family obligations to the State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin.14:47 10.09.2019
Parents of prison torture victim demand $225k compensation from Finance MinistryParents of Sultan Israilov, who had died from tortures in a penal colony where he had been serving sentence, filed a lawsuit seeking to collect 15 million rubles (nearly $225,000) in compensation for moral injury from the Russian Finance Ministry.10:34 03.09.2019
Ex-penitentiary employees get prison term for taking bribe from inmateA court in Russia’s Stavropol has sentenced two former officers of a penitentiary facility to 5 years behind bars each for taking a 282,000-ruble bribe from a prisoner.15:58 14.08.2019
Russian Justice Ministry proposes to set palliative care procedure for convictsThe Justice Ministry of Russia has developed a draft order to organize the delivery of palliative healthcare services for detainees and inmates.11:14 13.08.2019
Ex-penitentiary official’s 7-year sentence for $4 mln embezzlement appealedA 7-year prison sentence passed on ex-deputy chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Oleg Korshunov for a 263-million-ruble (about $4 million) embezzlement has been appealed.14:20 08.08.2019
Ex-penitentiary official Korshunov sentenced to 7 years in prisonThe Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow has sentenced former deputy chief of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Oleg Korshunov to 7 years in a penal colony for a 263-million-ruble (about $4.2 million) embezzlement.10:14 30.07.2019
Human rights council chair visits starving Moscow Region district ex-head in detentionMikhail Fedotov, Chairman of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, has visited Alexander Shestun, detained ex-head of the Moscow Region’s Serpukhov District who has been on hunger strike for a long time.10:54 26.07.2019