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A penal colony or exile colony is a settlement used to ... in north-east China and Xinjiang in north-west China as penal colonies. [24] Imperial Russia used Siberia ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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).
Vladimir Kara-Murza could only laugh when officials in Penal Colony No. 6 inexplicably put a small cabinet in his already-cramped concrete cell, next to a fold-up cot, stool, sink and latrine.
As of 2019, the FSIN operated 954 facilities of various types located across Russia. The majority of prisons are "corrective labor colonies", a type of penal colony that combines detention with compulsory work introduced during the Soviet era, but also operates a number of traditional prisons.