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Overcrowded Russian prisons await reforms
Published: 20 January, 2010, 21:32
Edited: 22 October, 2010, 20:42
TAGS: Crime, Russia, Law, Prime Time Russia
Russian authorities acknowledge that the poor state of the prison system requires urgent action and the layout of such action is already in the works.
Russia’s prisons recently gained the dubious distinction of holding a larger share of the population than in China and the U.S., the governmental daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. According to Deputy Justice Minister Yury Kalinin, the number of Russian inmates is close to 2 million. The official data from the ministry, however, gives a more modest figure of about 860,000, and independent sources estimate the prison population as somewhere in between. As providing better conditions and security for such a great number of people is extremely complicated, the first step of the reform could be introducing alternative means of punishment, in particular, house arrest.
House arrest exists in the Russian penal code but is very rarely used – mostly because of a lack of technical means to enforce it.
President Medvedev recently declared that reform of the prison system will include making house arrest more widespread– including, in particular, using special electronic tags connected with GPS and GLONASS systems, as well as more conventional audio and video surveillance. The hardware has already been developed and the production is due to start this year.
Mark Entin, the director of the Institute of European Law with the Moscow University of International Relations said that softer punishment for petty criminals and first time offenders helps both these convicts and the society that will have good members and not hardened criminals as often is with those who now come out of Russian prisons.
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