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Prisons in Russia consist of four types of facilities: [1] pre-trial institutions; educative or juvenile colonies; corrective colonies; and prisons. A corrective colony is the most common, with 705 institutions (excluding 7 corrective colonies for convicts imprisoned for life) in 2019 across the administrative divisions of Russia. There were ...
A corrective colony (Russian: исправительная колония, romanized: ispravitelnaya koloniya, abbr. ИК/IK) is the most common type of prison in Russia and some other post-Soviet states. [further explanation needed] Such colonies combine penal detention with compulsory work (penal labor).
FKU IK-3 (Russian: ФКУ ИК-3) [nb 1] of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, [3] also known as Polar Wolf (Russian: Полярный волк, romanized: Polyarnyy volk) or Yamskaya Troika (Ямская тройка), is a men's maximum security corrective colony in the town of Kharp in the Priuralsky District in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
What are conditions like in a Russian penal colony? Conditions in Russian penal colonies “varied but were often harsh and life threatening,” the U.S. State Department said in a 2021 report ...
FKU [nb 1] Corrective Colony No. 2 of the UFSIN of Russia for Vladimir Oblast (Russian: ФКУ Исправительная колония № 2 УФСИН России по Владимирской области, romanized: FKU Ispravitel'naya koloniya № 2 UFSIN Rossii po Vladimirskoy oblasti), [1] also known simply as IK-2 Pokrov or Pokrov correctional colony, is a general regime ...
Andrei Pivovarov, an opposition figure sentenced last year to four years in prison, has been in isolation at Penal Colony No. 7 in northern Russia’s Karelia region since January and is likely to ...
Federal Governmental Institution — Penal Colony No. 6 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in Orenburg Oblast, [a] commonly known as the Black Dolphin Prison (Russian: Чёрный дельфин, romanized: Chyorny delʹfin) and formerly known as NKVD Prison No. 2 is a correctional facility in Sol-Iletsk, Orenburg Oblast, Russia, near its border with Kazakhstan. [1]
Russian special forces said the alleged hostage takers were all “eliminated” in an operation that saw some hostages freed, at the penal colony in the town of Surovikino.