The government has approved a decree on the development of the penal system. It mentions the construction of 11 new detention centers with 11.2 thousand places, the construction of 14 regime buildings with 3.4 thousand places, the reconstruction of four more buildings, and the renovation of 118 auxiliary facilities.
The duration of the federal program has been extended until 2035, and its funding has been increased more than threefold — from 105 to 359 billion rubles.
The need for construction is explained by the overcrowding of detention centers in the last five years in several regions, including Moscow, Tatarstan, Krasnodar Krai, Karelia, Tuva, Ingushetia, KhMAO, and Crimea.
The decree notes that the prosecutor's office systematically records violations: the norm — «4 square meters per person» is not observed in the cells, and there are no «proper sanitary conditions».
In July, the Federation Council approved a law that grants the FSB the right to create its own detention centers for the accused and suspects.
At the same time, according to the human rights project «Open Space», since the beginning of the full-scale war in 2022, 88 FSIN Russia institutions have filed for liquidation. The decrease in the number of prisoners is attributed to deployment to the war, experts believe.