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Butyrka prison in Moscow. 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.
[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 Soviet-era maximum-security penitentiary facility at Chernokozovo was closed down during the First Chechen War in December 1994. It was re-opened by the Russian federal forces during the Second Chechen War at the end of 1999, officially as a "temporary reception center for the persons detained on the grounds of vagrancy and begging".
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 ...
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich chose to advocate for dissidents languishing in Russian prisons, in his first public comments on U.S. soil after he was freed as part of a prisoner ...