Women's zones of Russia: where are they located? Rules, life conditions and conditions

When it comes to places where the punishment for a crime is served, it seems that the conversation should go about prison or about a colony for men. However, do not forget about another disaster in Russia. This is an increasing female crime. It also requires punishment and restriction of freedom.

Women's zones of Russia are 35 colonies, in which 60 thousand people are serving their term. This number is five percent of the total number of prisoners in the country. Women's zones of Russia, the list of which is very small, are far from all districts. That is why most criminals have to serve their sentence far from their homes.

For what do women sit?

The conducted studies convincingly prove the fact that the representatives of the fair sex are committed to crimes that by their nature are increasingly approaching "masculine". In recent decades, there has been an increase in hooliganism, in which representatives of the fair sex took part.

Also, women are imprisoned for fraud, theft from shops, hacking, selling and transporting drugs, buying and selling stolen goods, hijacking cars, forgery of documents.

Growing in the country and the number of youth gangs, whose members are very young creatures aged 15 to 19 years. Such criminals in skirts are especially cruel, killing their victims without any reason. Many of these girls have problems with drugs, the use of which requires a lot of money.

It is worth saying that those who serve a sentence could be twice as many. However, women's zones, like men's, are regularly released through amnesties. Reduces the number of serving sentences and fairly soft legislation. However, the problem of society does not become less relevant. After all, thirty percent of convicts who are sent to women's areas are imprisoned for particularly serious crimes. As a rule, they are committed on domestic grounds, when the dispute turns into a fight with bloody consequences. Crimes of the rest of the mass of women - theft and spread of drugs. And only a small percentage of convicts are ladies who committed economic crimes.

Correctional facilities for the weak half of humanity

Where are women's zones in Russia? They are scattered across the regions of the country. And each of the colonies has its own characteristics. For example, there are women's zones in which the children's homes are equipped. These are the following correctional institutions :

• Kemerovo;
• Moscow;
• Sverdlovsk;
• Vladimir Oblast;
• Khabarovsk and Krasnodar territories;
• Nizhny Novgorod;
• Samara;
• Chelyabinsk;
• Mordovia.

There are women's zones in which minors serve their punishment. This is 21 thousand girls. Almost 1,500 of them are placed in educational colony. One of these correctional facilities is in Bryansk (30 Komarova Street).

For dangerous recidivists women's zones of Russia are also provided. Where are they located? One of these colonies is in the Perm region (Berezniki, Lenina, 81), and the second - in the Orel (Shakhovo settlement).

Practically twenty thousand women are kept in SIZOs. Specially for women, pre-trial detention centers were opened in Moscow (82 Shosseynaya Street), St. Petersburg (Arsenalnaya Street 11) and Yekaterinburg. How are criminals held in other regions? There is a zone for women in prison. Such SIZOs belong to a mixed type.

There is also a women's zone on the territory of our country for foreign criminals. It is located in the territory of Mordovia. In this correctional institution, 12,000 foreign citizens are serving sentences, 500 of which are residents of the far abroad.

As for the remand prison, they are located in cities. Most often in the center of the village. This is because most of the pre-trial detention centers were built before 1917 in Tsarist Russia. And in those days prisons and jails were the most important city government services.

As for the IU, the women's zones in the regions of Russia were built, as a rule, in Stalin's times. Until the early 60's they were called camps. They built such facilities away from the main roads. That is why today it is very difficult to get to many of them on public transport.

Where exactly are the women's zones in Russia? Addresses and locations we presented above.

Types of IU

What can be the women's zone? First of all, it should be said that the IU belong to the penitentiary system of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. With the help of colonies, punishments are executed, which are expressed by imprisonment for a certain period, or for life. The IU also contains people sentenced to death.

A zone for women can be a correctional or educational colony, a prison, and a medical correctional facility.

Types of control devices by modes

As a rule, the Russian women's zone is a correctional colony. It contains people who have already reached the age of eighteen. The Russian penitentiary system includes four types of colonies. Their difference is in the existing regimes. Among them are the colonies:

• Settlements;
• The general regime;
• Strict regime;
• Special regime.

However, not all of these correctional facilities are designed for women. What is the regime in the women's zone? To serve their punishment, criminals are sent only to colony-settlements, where they can reside on a common territory with men, as well as in the general regime. In the last institutions of convicts are divided by gender. Is there a women's zone, strict regime or special in which it is used for convicts? There are no such correctional facilities for criminals.

Direction of convicts by court

In what colony will the criminal or criminal go to serve his punishment? This is decided by the court. Thus, correctional facilities of general regime are intended for women who have committed grave and especially serious crimes in any relapse. In addition, the court in the consideration of the case carefully examines the person guilty. And taking into account the circumstances of the committed crime, a decision may be made to send a woman who committed an unlawful misdemeanor to a penal colony. Here, also those criminals who must be punished for an unintentional criminal offense, as well as for an act of medium and small severity, can serve their term of punishment. At the same time, crimes must be committed for the first time.

Women's prison (zone) for minors is an educational colony that has the same general regime. In these institutions, there are simplified and ordinary, as well as strict and preferential terms of serving time. Juvenile offenders have a single privilege. In case of conscientious performance of labor duties and absence of penalties, which must be confirmed within the first three months of imprisonment, the administration can transfer them to the usual regime of stay.

Criminals can be sent by the court and in the colony-settlement, as well as in the medical institutions of the law enforcement system. In the territory of these data, there is no gender differentiation. Here, men and women live in buildings located on the same territory. In this case, separate rooms are provided for them.

Women's prison (zone) is a place where criminals with underage children (up to 3 years) can serve their sentence. Such courts are sent to the colony in which the child's home is open. In such institutions are not only women with children, but also pregnant women.

Internal distribution

Immediately in the correctional facility of convicted women, the administration settles. Thus, criminals, who are serving their sentences for the first time, are kept separately from those who have already entered the colony earlier. Isolated from others are women who received their sentence for dangerous and especially dangerous criminal offenses.

The administration of the Institute places these categories of convicts in separate sections. However, the fulfillment of such conditions is not always possible due to lack of housing, as well as the lack of the necessary organizational and material-technical base.

Conditions of detention

The women's zone (see photo below) provides for the creation of ordinary, lightened and strict conditions for convicts. In 2003, some amendments were made to the Federal Law relating to these IRs. They touched those ladies who serve their term in light conditions. So, since 2003, such women are allowed to live outside the colony with their families, if there are six months left until the end of the sentence.

As a whole, the law does not regulate the conditions for keeping the general regime in the IC according to gender. Women are granted only minor privileges in the form of an increase in the standard of living space (3.5 square meters instead of 2).

In addition, convicted pregnant women and those who have reached the age of 55 can be brought to gratuitous work only with their consent. For these categories of convicts, as well as for minors, at least fifty percent of earnings must be credited to the personal account.

According to the rules of the content of the IU, women can:

• Use cosmetics;
• To acquire in the store in the premises of the institution the necessary things, clothes, etc.

In addition, a barber and a photographer work in the penal colony for convicted women. To pay for their services, ladies should have their own money.

Place of Residence

Cameras for female convicts may be of various sizes. However, most of them are designed for 40-60 people. Bunk beds are for sleeping. They are installed in two rows. In people, such beds are called "bunks". Only a few beds that are installed in the opposite corner from the door of the camera can be without the second shelf. This place has its own name - "glade". Here lives the elder and close to her women, who have long been serving their term.

There is in the chamber and its own kitchen, as well as a toilet with a shower. They are located separately from the main room. Despite the fact that the time of visiting the shower for women is not limited, they can only wash their clothes on certain days.

Clean the camera daily. And they do it in the morning and in the evening. On weekends, a mandatory attribute is the general cleaning of the living room, kitchen and toilet. The duty officers are engaged in this, which are appointed according to a certain schedule. Refusal of cleaning is not possible. The exception is only those convicted women who have served their sentence for several years.

For bad cleaning there must be punishment. The guilty woman is assigned extra duty outside the schedule.

Motherhood behind bars

In the women's zones, where the children's homes are open, there are maternity wards. They are created in order to provide medical care to pregnant women serving a sentence in the colony. According to the law, the administration of such institutions should create all conditions for the normal development and residence of children there. A convicted mother can communicate with her child during their free time. At the same time, their joint residence is acceptable.

After the baby turns three years old, with the consent of the mother, they are transferred to the upbringing of relatives or other persons. Otherwise, the child will be sent to a state children's institution.

For the device of the kid the woman is given short-term holiday. Its duration is fifteen days, excluding travel. Subsequently, for the same period, the administration of the colony grants the mother an annual leave, intended for a date with the child.

In the event that the convicted mother is left to serve a sentence of less than a year, a three-year-old child may be left in the child's home. Here he will wait for the release of his mother. However, such a right is granted only to those women who are distinguished by impeccable behavior.

Pregnant women and women with children under the age of three years are entitled to all rights and facilities provided by Russian law. In addition, they can without any restrictions purchase essentials and food, health appliances, special clothes and shoes. The payment is made at the expense of funds stored in the personal account of the prisoner.

Employment

The administration of any correctional colony has one very important duty. It should provide for convicted labor employment. This takes into account the age of the woman and, if possible, the specialty.

Working convicts are entitled to paid annual leave. Its duration is twelve days, excluding weekends.

Juvenile offenders who are in an educational institution are granted a longer vacation. It is eighteen working days. The same leave is laid for those women who have reached the age of 55.

It is noted that the convicted ladies work harder than men. Only a small percentage of women do not want to work or take their duties dishonestly.

In order to diversify the monotonous work of convicts, employed, as a rule, in garment production, the administration of the IU often offers them new spheres of employment. This knitting and weaving of lace, folk crafts, etc.

Leisure

What do convicted women do in their spare time? This, as a rule, small household troubles, satisfaction of personal needs, writing letters, participation in amateur performances, sports and reading literature. In addition, women take an active part in religious activities. They help the servants of the church to conduct appropriate ceremonies.

Many of the convicts emphasize the importance of unlimited correspondence, as well as the possibility of using a computer network and telephone communication to communicate with close relatives.

What is the most difficult conclusion?

A certain social role is assigned to a woman in society, and also functions other than men are designed. In addition, representatives of the weak half of humanity always distinguish the way of life and the historically conditioned place in the system of human relations. And this is not to mention the biological and psychophysiological characteristics of women. What happens to them in places of detention?

Getting to the temporary detention center, the violator of the law is completely alone. The fact is that in the IVS women are rarely placed, and those who are there are placed separately from men. Such conditions are very painful from the first hours. The lack of communication with people has a depressing effect on the female psyche.

Further, when issuing a resolution on arrest, the violator of the law is transferred to the remand center. Prison reality is a complete surprise for women. Sometimes from this offenders lose a sense of reality. And this is not surprising. After all, the strongest stress is experienced by every person who was first in prison. And if in a temporary detention facility it seems that all this nightmare will soon end, then it becomes clear in prison that the imprisonment will last at least a few months or even more than one year. The psychological state of a woman is affected by the information hunger. She begins to feel that her family has forgotten, and friends have completely abandoned her. This greatly increases the suffering of the prisoner.

Some psychotherapeutic influence is rendered in this situation only by conversations with cellmates. Women's nature allows you to calm down a bit, sharing at least some unexpected disaster. However, each person sometimes feels the need to be alone with himself. But it is not possible to do this in the cell. The constant presence of strangers begins to simply irritate and cause alarm. When such a psycho-emotional state of a woman reaches the maximum level, inevitable conflicts arise. Fortunately, the ladies are limited to small domestic issues and end up talking in elevated tones. The fights in the cells where the women who are breaking the law are extremely rare.

After the verdict of the criminals, a women's zone is waiting. The photos taken in the colony convincingly confirm the fact that here too there is a lack of personal space. Whether it is a site for construction, production or a bedroom, prisoners are always in a crowd. In addition, the administration of the colony suppresses any attempts to decorate the bedside table or bed with any pictures or photographs. Punishment may end even the drying of underwear on the back of the bed in the daytime.

For a person accustomed to free life, the observance of the general regime of lifting, fastening and eating will become difficult. It is not easy to spend time in common places and free time.

Prison clothes affect the psyche of a woman negatively. This is usually a blue or gray skirt or pants, as well as a blouse. For the street, a padded jacket and a kerchief are issued, which must be on the woman all day until she returns to sleep in the barracks. It is this accessory that very much irritates those who serve punishment.

What is the meaning of the restrictions? They force the woman to understand that the actions that are usual for her are dangerous. And in order to avoid risk, you must adopt the established rules. Through established discipline, the administration seeks to fit all prisoners under the same pattern, forcing them to obey and execute internal rules. The person deprived of his personal life begins to lose control over his actions. He is weaned from independence. Often this leads to the fact that, being at large, a woman can not adapt to the ordinary life of society.