Sentence examples for correctional colony from inspiring English sources

After that, the category of "correctional colony" would cease to exist in the Russian penal system.

No matter the prisoners' back stories, Correctional Colony 13 offers a view of how troubled Russia's criminal justice system has become.

In this sense, he explained with a casual shrug, he considers many of his friends and fellow inmates in Correctional Colony 13 men as justly convicted of corruption, and political prisoners at the same time.

The Russian federal prison service allowed the journalists to stroll about Correctional Colony No. 13 for several hours, interviewing inmates randomly, but only in the company of guards, a prison service press aide and the warden.

But the tour of the prison, Correctional Colony 13, also underscored a point that the authorities might not have intended to highlight: most of the inmates are here for work-related infractions, from accepting bribes to attacking suspects.

The Federal Penal Service rejected a request from Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova to serve their remaining time in Moscow; given the high profile nature of their case, they are afraid for their safety in the communal environment of a correctional colony.

Russia's "correctional colonies" are unlike any prisons in the west.

Some women's correctional colonies have nurseries for infants under the age of three.

The majority of women convicted in Moscow courts are taken to correctional colonies located between 200km and 500km from the capital.

The penal service recognises that the remote location of its correctional colonies is a problem; its most recent solution is to suggest that prisoners talk with their loved ones by Skype.

The south-west corner of Mordovia, one of the constituent ethnic republics of the Russian Federation, is 400km away and I visited its three women's correctional colonies on a research trip in 2007-8.