Correctional Facility

The correctional colony is the main type of state institution intended for keeping citizens of adult age who are sentenced to imprisonment. When passing sentence, the court determines the place of detention of a person who is punished for a particular crime.

Citizens who for the first time received their term in the form of imprisonment for crimes committed by negligence, as well as for unlawful misdemeanors, assessed by a small and moderate degree of severity, are sent to a colony-settlement. Convicts can also be transferred there, directed at correction to institutions that have more strict maintenance regimes, if during the time they were in them they received a positive characterization.

The general regime colony is intended for those citizens who for the first time committed a crime belonging to the category of grievous. In the same place, convicted persons for light and medium offenses are held, if during the sentencing the court has determined for them this type of institution.

The correctional colony of strict regime is intended for those convicted of crimes that are classified as particularly serious, if they were committed for the first time. According to the verdict, there may also be repeat offenders if their previous unlawful misdemeanment was punishable by imprisonment.

There are correctional institutions in which the regime of detention is recognized as special. They are sent to male criminals who have to serve a life sentence. By its decision, the court can also send recidivists there if it considers them particularly dangerous for the society. The special regime colony is also intended for keeping criminals for whom the sentence was changed: the death penalty in the form of a pardon for serving a life sentence or for staying in a correctional institution for a certain period.

Women who have committed unlawful acts live separately from male criminals.

The correctional colony has a division into two zones. In the first of these are premises intended for the production process. The second, residential zone, in turn, includes several local sections, which host dormitories for prisoners, a canteen, a school, a library, a club, an outpatient clinic, and sometimes a small inpatient treatment center, and a bathhouse. In this same part, there are premises intended for administration. Often there is a small church or place in the colony for praying. The residential area includes special rooms intended for visits as short-term, in the interval from two to four hours, and long, for 1-3 days.

The correctional colony in which the maintenance of prisoners is made with observance of a strict mode, has the chambers closed on locks. In them for twenty-fifty people are locked citizens, deprived of their liberty for crimes. The colonies of the other regimes are equipped with hostels, the sleeping rooms of which are designed for twenty-one hundred and fifty beds. The standard of living space, established by law, is two square meters per prisoner. If there is not enough space, the bunks in the sleeping room can be located in two or even three tiers. Criminals sentenced to serve their sentence for life are held in cells for two people.

In addition to the dormitory dormitories are equipped with rooms in which personal belongings are stored, food is taken, and locker rooms for outer clothing are located. In addition, there is a so-called "red corner", designed for spending leisure hours, equipped with TV, bookshelves, tables, etc. Before the hostel there is a small area for walking, where convicts can be in their spare time and various activities.