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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 also 8 prisons, 23 juvenile facilities, and 211 pre-trial facilities in 2019. [2] Prisons in Russia are administered by the Federal Penitentiary ...
[11] [12] The end of the Cold War in 1991 resulted in a marked decline in espionage activities—and, accordingly, prisoner exchanges—between the U.S. and Soviet Union's successor, the Russian Federation; the most recent mass prisoner swap between the two countries occurred in 2010, when ten Russian sleeper agents detained in the U.S. as part ...
Defunct prisons in Russia (1 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Prisons in Russia" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
Russian news agencies said he is also being investigated on a more serious charge of assaulting a police officer, which carries up to five years in prison. A court in September denied his appeal ...
The prison was built as part of a system of similar prisons in the region in the 1930s during the Soviet era. [2] [5] University of Oxford scholar Judith Pallot described the prison as being "stuck in time for 50 years." [2] Inmates are housed dormitory-style with 100 bunk beds in a large room. [2] Personal belongings are not permitted. [2]
Russia has freed Marc Fogel, a U.S. schoolteacher and former employee of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, who had been serving a 14-year sentence for drug smuggling after being caught in possession of ...
It is the first federal prison in Brazil, designed to receive prisoners deemed too dangerous to be kept in the states' prison systems. Campo Grande Federal Penitentiary ( Campo Grande , Mato Grosso do Sul , Brazil) - It houses the most dangerous prisoners in the country, as Fernandinho Beira-Mar , the Colombian trafficker Juan Carlos Ramírez ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian security forces stormed a prison on Friday to free hostages seized by knife-wielding prisoners who identified themselves as Islamic State militants, according to news ...