Federal Penitentiary Service

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Federal Penitentiary Service

Emblem of the Federal Penitentiary Service
Flag of the Federal Penitentiary Service
Agency overview
Formed	2004; 20 years ago (2004)
Jurisdiction	Russia
Headquarters	Zhitnaya Street 14 Yakimanka District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow
Employees	338,500
Agency executive	Arkadiy Gostev, Director
Parent agency	Ministry of Justice
Website	fsin.gov.ru

The Federal Penitentiary Service^[a] (FSIN, Russian: Федеральная служба исполнения наказаний (ФСИН), Federalnaya Sluzhba Ispolneniya Nakazaniy) is a federal agency of the Ministry of Justice of Russia responsible for correctional services.

The FSIN is the federal authority for the detention of

.

The FSIN was established in 2004 as a new federal correctional service agency for the Ministry of Justice to replace the

agency.

History

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The Federal Penitentiary Service is considered to be successor to the Main Prison Administration, established on 27 February 1879 as the first government body dealing with maintenance and security of detention and prison facilities in the

from 2004 to 2005, maintaining the GUIN name but specially re-created for the Ministry of Justice. In 2006, the FSIN received its current name as the Federal Service for the Execution of Punishments (Russian: Федеральная служба исполнения наказаний (ФСИН)) under the Russian Ministry of Justice. The FSIN is commonly known in English as the Federal Penitentiary Service.

Main tasks and authorities

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The main tasks of the FSIN are:

• the execution, in accordance with Russian legislation penal, detention of persons suspected or accused of committing crimes, and defendants;
• control the behavior of probationers and prisoners, which the court granted a deferment sentence;
• ensuring the protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of convicts and persons in custody;
• ensuring law and order in the institutions, enforcing criminal penalties of imprisonment (hereinafter - institutions executing punishment), and in detention centers, security contained in them convicts, persons in custody, as well as employees of the correctional system, officials and citizens in the territories of these institutions and detention facilities;
• protecting and escorting prisoners and persons detained on the specified routes escort, convoy of Russian citizens and stateless persons on the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as foreign citizens and stateless persons in the case of their extradition;
• a prisoners and detainees in detention, detention conditions, in accordance with international law, provisions of international treaties and federal laws;
• The organization of the activities to provide assistance to convicted in social adaptation;
• management of the territorial bodies of the FSIN directly subordinate agencies.

Directors

The FSIN is headed by the Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, who is appointed and dismissed by the President of Russia on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of Russia. The Director is authorized to have six deputies, including one first deputy, who are appointed and dismissed by the President.

• Yuri Kalinin (2004-2009)
• Alexander Reimer (2009-2012) - appointed by President Dmitry Medvedev, the first to head the federal prison system without previous service.
• Gennady Kornienko (2012–present) - appointed by President Vladimir Putin.^[1]
• Arkadiy Gostev has been director since 2021.^[2][3]

In 2007, Rabbi

inmates and officers in Russian federal prison system.

Population

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As of March 2019, the FSIN was responsible for 558,778 inmates, including pre-trial detainees. Only 8% of prisoners in Russia were female, and 0.2% were juvenile offenders. As of 2018, Russia had one of the highest incarceration rates in the world at 416 per 100,000 people with a prison population ranked fourth behind the United States, China, and Brazil. Before 2000 Russia was ranked as having the highest incarceration rate per 100,000 people internationally until it was overtaken by the United States. between 2000 and 2018, Russia’s prison population dropped substantially with a decline of over 400,000 inmates, thanks among other factors, to the socioeconomic reforms and overall increase in standards and quality of life.

The FSIN operated 705

.

Facilities

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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.

Prisons for life sentence

The FSIN has eight special correctional facilities only for prisoners serving

and those formerly sentenced to death:

Common Name	Full Name	Location	Opened	Notes
Ognenny Ostrov Огненный остров ("Pyatak/Volgoda Nickel")	Federal State Institution "Correctional Colony No. 5 of the Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Vologda Oblast"	Belozersky District, Vologda Oblast	1953	Capacity of 505 inmates, including 55 cell high-security section.
Snowflake Snezhinka Снежинка	Federal state institution "Correctional Colony No. 6 of the Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Khabarovsk Territory"	Elban, Khabarovsk Krai	2017	Capacity of 378 inmates.
White Swan Belyy Lebed Белый лебедь	Federal State Institution "Association of Correctional Colonies No. 2 with special economic conditions for the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Perm Territory"	Solikamsk, Perm Krai	1938	Capacity of 962 inmates.
Black Eagle Chyorniy berkut Чёрный беркут	Federal state institution "Correctional Colony No. 56 of the Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Sverdlovsk Region"	Ivdel, Sverdlovsk Oblast	1935	Capacity of 469 inmates.
Torbeyev Central (ru) Torbeyevskiy tsentral Торбеевский_централ	Federal state institution "Correctional Colony No. 6 of the Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Republic of Mordovia"	Torbeyevo, Mordovia	2015
Black Dolphin Chyorniy delʹfin Чёрный дельфин	Federal State Institution "Correctional Colony No. 6 of the Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Orenburg Region"	Sol-Iletsk, Orenburg Oblast	1773	Capacity of 1600 inmates.
Polar Owl Polyarnaya sova Полярная сова	Federal State Institution "Correctional Colony No. 18 of the Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug"	Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug	1961	Capacity of 1014 inmates
Mordovian Zone (ru) Mordovskaya zona Мордовская зона	Federal State Institution "Correctional Colony No. 1 of the Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Republic of Mordovia"	Zubovo-Polyansky District, Mordovia	1931	Capacity of 1005 inmates.

Federal penal colonies

Common Name	Full Name	Location	Opened	Notes
Segezha Correctional Colony (ru) Segezhskaya ispavitel'naya koloniya Сегежская исправительная колония	Federal state institution "Correctional Colony No. 7 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Republic of Karelia"	Segezha, Karelia	1968	Capacity of 1342 inmates.
Lgov Prison L'govskaya koloniya Льго́вская коло́ния	Federal State Institution “Correctional Colony No. 3 of the Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Kursk Region”	Lgov, Kursk Oblast	1961	Capacity of 1,560 inmates.

Special purpose units

Every regional office of Federal Penitentiary Service has its own special purpose unit, whose tasks include rescuing the hostages, providing security during transportation of prisoners, anti-riot tasks in penitentiary facilities etc. The special purpose unit of FSIN's Moscow department is called Saturn. Most of FSIN special purpose units were involved in special tasks during both Chechen Wars and their aftermath.

See also

• Russian penal military units

Notes

References

External links

• Media related to Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website (in Russian)
• Official Community VKontakte (in Russian)

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