What is a colony-settlement: conditions of detention, features and regime

In our country there are a large number of correctional institutions in which convicts serve their sentences. It all depends on what kind of criminal act the person committed.

What is a colony settlement? This question is asked by many citizens of our state, whose loved ones were sent there to serve their sentences. So, in the settlement there are those convicted for acts that were committed by them through negligence, as well as those persons who committed atrocities of the least or medium gravity. Read about all this in this article.

A little about the main thing

the convict arrived at the settlement colony

So, what is a colony settlement? This is one of several types of correctional institutions in our country. There, those convicted for acts that were committed through negligence or intentionally, but for the first time, serve their sentences.

Most often, drivers who are guilty of a road accident in which people died, as well as those criminals who have committed minor thefts, are sent to a settlement colony. But, in addition, convicts who were transferred for good behavior from other correctional institutions (general or strict regime) serve their sentences there.

But, despite the fact that the settlement has easier conditions for serving a sentence, it will not be possible to leave the territory of the colony before the end of the term. It is allowed only with the permission of the administration of a given correctional institution to go to work or study outside the colony-settlement. You need to know this.

Legal regulation

So, the main regulatory act regulating the situation of convicts serving their sentences in penal colonies is the PEC. Article 129 of the Criminal Executive Code regulates the conditions of stay of the latter in these correctional institutions.

Based on the above legal norms, convicts in the settlement:

- live in dormitories;

— carry out labor activities in accordance with the Labor Code (with the exception of choosing the place of their professional activity and dismissal from work);

- have a special identification document with them.

Procedure for serving the sentence

The procedure for serving imprisonment in medical correctional institutions is determined by the features of the conditions of detention of prisoners:

  • schedule;
  • providing visits;
  • labor organization.

The daily routine in medical institutions includes various therapeutic activities. Supervision of convicts in a medical correctional institution is mandatory.

Checks of the presence of convicts are carried out in isolated areas or wards by counting and family roll at least twice a day.

Long visits are provided according to the standards established for the corresponding type of regime of the correctional facility where the convicted person arrived, provided that there are no medical contraindications for this.

In medical and correctional institutions, working conditions for convicts are organized that correspond to medical indications, degree of ability to work and the ability to use the work of convicts in the conditions of a medical and correctional institution.

If convicts systematically violate the procedure for serving their sentences in medical correctional colonies, they may be transferred to a disciplinary detention center.

These are cell-type premises, solitary confinement, where they are provided with treatment and food in accordance with medical indications. At the same time, they are given a daily walk lasting two hours.

The rest of the internal regulations apply to this category of convicts in the same way as to those held in treatment and preventive colonies.

general characteristics

convicts at work

What is a colony settlement? This is a specialized type of correctional facility, where there is no high fence with barbed wire, as in all other colonies. But the convicts are kept here under the protection of the colony administration.

In this case, citizens guilty of crimes live and work in such conditions that sometimes they even forget that they are in captivity. Because most of the settlement colonies are located closer to the forest, in small specialized villages. Nevertheless, all convicts here are required to work. The latter even have cash with them and can buy necessary products and personal items at a local store. Nevertheless, many of the convicts still take a long time to adapt to such living conditions. Moreover, if they had not previously had to serve their sentences in places isolated from society.

What is present on the territory

A colony is a small village inside a populated area. Since there is almost everything necessary for human habitation here:

  • medical institutions that can provide outpatient and inpatient care;
  • dining room , where you can always get the necessary food;
  • a store where convicts can purchase necessary goods and products;
  • bathhouse to keep yourself clean;
  • a school so that children living with convicts can continue to study fully;
  • a library where you can always get the necessary literature;
  • cinema hall or assembly hall for cultural leisure.

Separate meeting rooms are also provided if visitors come from other cities. You can learn about this in more detail in the video presented.

Interesting

As you know, there are no general regime colonies where both men and women serve their sentences. Because the law prohibits it. However, in colony settlements everything is a little different. Men and women can serve their sentences here together, but they live in different dormitories. Moreover, according to the rules of many correctional colonies, convicts of the opposite sex should not have contact with each other, but in practice it turns out completely differently. For example, if men and women live in different dormitories, but on the same territory, then they somehow meet each other, communicate and even work together at the same enterprise.

Specific Categories

Once again it is necessary to return to the question of what a colony-settlement is. This is a correctional institution in which both men and women can be imprisoned for committing the following illegal acts:

- committed through negligence, if they have not previously served a sentence of imprisonment;

- intentional, but only of minor or moderate severity, provided that they were committed for the first time;

- those who committed atrocities through negligence and have previously served time in a colony.

Persons who were transferred to a settlement from general or strict regime colonies also serve their sentences in this correctional institution.

Kinds

There are two types of settlement colonies:

  1. The first type is organized for those who committed a criminal act for the first time through negligence; the act must be classified as an act of moderate or minor severity. Serving cannot be more than five years.
  2. The following types of colonies are for those who were transported from other correctional regimes.

Please note: the conditions are the same everywhere, regardless of the type of settlement. There are separate male and female settlements.

Nuances

You can confess at the settlement

Here it is necessary to say that convicts transferred from other correctional colonies (general and strict regime) must serve their sentence separately from those who have not previously served their sentence in isolation from society. However, in practice everything happens completely differently. Most often, in a colony-settlement, all convicts are kept together, live in the same dormitory and work together.

According to the law, this is illegal. After all, persons who have already repeatedly served time (for example, for a serious act) can have a negative impact on those citizens who have not previously committed crimes and were sent to prison for committing a careless crime (for example, for an accident in which a person was killed or injured ). This must be taken into account.

Colony settlements in Russia: conditions and regimes of detention

  1. There are no complaints.
  2. There are positive recommendations and reviews.
  3. The prisoner is conscientious about his work and education.
  4. A person takes part in social life.
  5. There are no conflict situations with other prisoners.
  6. The prisoner has a desire to change the conditions of his detention.

At the legislative level, the following procedure for the execution of punishment is established for persons sentenced to stay in colony settlements:

Of course, the very organizational form of such institutions does not depend on the contingent of people contained in them, therefore this division is rather conditional in nature and in practice is used only to distinguish individuals with deep behavioral defects from less malicious criminals. It is for these cases that there are colony settlements in Russia, where violators whose crimes did not entail serious consequences are serving their sentences. Behavior correction takes place in such government institutions, so all people who, for whatever reason, cannot take the legal path of correction in the conditions of their usual existence are sent there. There are only two problems with regard to settlement colonies: the fact that women and men live together on the same territory.

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Conditions

in a colony settlement at work

In a colony-settlement, convicts are kept without guards. There are no towers on which correctional officers stand with machine guns. Nevertheless, those convicted there are under constant control of the colony administration. They are allowed to move freely within the territory of this correctional institution, they can carry money with them in order to make purchases in the store at the colony. Many convicts even wear jewelry, because by law they can have valuables on them.

Persons serving sentences in a colony-settlement receive parcels and parcels, and also have the right to visits without limiting their number. You need to know this.

Rights, obligations, prohibitions and restrictions

Convicts have the following rights:

  • In the interval between getting up and going out, you can move freely throughout the entire territory of the settlement.
  • With the permission of the administration, you can move outside the colony, but within the boundaries of the municipality.
  • You can have and wear personal clothing.
  • Convicts are allowed to have and use money without restrictions.
  • Receive parcels and packages that do not contain items prohibited in the colony.
  • You can have dates without limiting their number.
  • The work of convicts is regulated by labor legislation.
  • Convicts have the right to receive secondary or higher education in absentia, but only in educational institutions located on the territory of the municipality where the colony is located.

Responsibilities:

Convicts are required to work, otherwise penalties will be imposed on them, for example, a ban on leaving the dormitory for up to 30 days or a punishment cell. Convicts who are not engaged in socially useful work cannot count on parole.

Restrictions:

  • Leaving the colony without permission from the administration is prohibited.
  • The passport and other identification documents are kept in the personal files of the convicted person. Instead, a certificate of the established form is issued.
  • Transfer to another place of work is carried out with the permission of the colony administration.
  • The administration may at any time conduct a search for prohibited items.

Forbidden:

  • Alcohol and any alcohol-based products, including perfume and cologne.
  • Narcotic substances, medicines and medical supplies.
  • Weapons, including knives, as well as some tools such as axes and hammers.
  • Mobile phones, laptops, players and cameras.
  • Playing cards.
  • Pornographic materials.
  • Topographic maps and compasses.
  • Vehicles.

On our website you will find other publications about the conditions of detention of prisoners in various correctional colonies, including information about institutions with special regime.

How do representatives of the fair sex serve their sentences?

convicted women with children in prison

In principle, conditions in the settlement are the same for both men and women. Of course, girls do not do hard work, unlike the stronger half of humanity. Everyone lives in dormitories, has their own bed, a bedside table for personal belongings and a chair for clothes.

Here it is also necessary to say that women’s colony settlements are most often located in general regime correctional institutions for representatives of the fair half of humanity. There are not many places there, therefore, by court decision, only the most responsible and good production workers, who have almost completely proven their correction in practice, are transferred there for good behavior and a conscientious attitude to work. That's the order.

Opinions of former convicts

general regime colony

To begin with, I would like to say that not a single person is immune from ending up in places of isolation from society. As was stated earlier, drivers most often end up in settlements because of whose fault one or more people died. These citizens cannot be called criminals. After all, they did not want negative consequences to occur.

Reviews about the colony-settlement are quite contradictory. Many convicts who have previously served their sentences in the general regime believe that it is better there. In a colony-settlement, the administration often establishes its own rules, convicts work without days off or lunch, they are constantly checked (even up to 10 times a day and at night). Moreover, the latter also complain that there is no medical office in the settlement, the store is open very rarely, and it is practically impossible to get there.

Some citizens who served their assigned sentences there even said that they wrote complaints to various authorities, but never received any answers. Therefore, the opinions of former convicts on this issue differ. Nevertheless, some of them believe that a colony-settlement is good for those who love to work and really want to improve. But it can be really very difficult for those convicted there for the first time, especially at the beginning of their sentence.

Possibility of parole

In exceptional cases, criminals serving life sentences may be released early. Such a decision is made exclusively in court. To do this, the following conditions must be met:

  1. The offender spent at least 25 years in prison.
  2. During the last 3 years of serving his sentence, the offender did not commit any offenses or violate discipline.

The reason for parole may also be the presence of certain diseases.

You can read more details and applications for parole in this article https://lexconsult.online/9102-ispolzovanie-prava-na-uslovno-dosrochnoe-osvobozhdenie

For information

Transfer to a colony-settlement is carried out only by decision of the justice authority. The administration of a correctional institution does not have such powers.

Only those persons serving their sentences in general and strict regime colonies who are conscientious about their work and have impeccable behavior, without disciplinary sanctions, are transferred to settlement. This rule must be remembered.

transfer to a settlement colony by court decision

Only positively characterized convicts who have served at least one quarter of their sentence in a given correctional institution are transferred from a general regime colony to a settlement. You need to know this.

Also, a person is transferred from a maximum security colony to a settlement colony only after the convict has served at least one third of the sentence imposed by the judicial authority. That's the order.

Particularly dangerous repeat offenders, as well as persons sentenced to lifelong isolation from society, are not transferred to a penal colony. You need to know about this.

When can a convicted person be transferred to a penal colony?


Lawyer Antonov A.P.

One of the purposes of punishment, defined in Art. 43 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, is the correction of the convicted person. This means that the result of the impact of punishment should be a change in the personality of the convicted person, his antisocial attitudes, and law-abiding behavior during and after serving the sentence. Many methods and means can be used to achieve this goal, including the possibility of changing the type of correctional institution. The behavior of a convicted person while serving his sentence is the main criterion for assessing his personality. At the same time, the law requires taking into account the behavior of the convicted person during the entire period of serving the sentence, and, for example, not only during the last period before deciding on the issue of changing the type of correctional institution. Another criterion for assessing the personality of a convicted person specified in the law is his attitude to work. It should be noted here that taking this factor into account in modern conditions is sometimes difficult. This is explained by the fact that a fairly significant number of convicts are not provided with work or are not provided with full employment. Therefore, in a number of cases, the assessment of the attitude towards work should be carried out not on the basis of whether the convicted person works and how he works, but taking into account his desire to work while serving his sentence. It should be noted that changing the type of correctional institution to an institution with a softer regime of detention is not one of the objective rights of convicts. The indication in the law that convicted persons “may be transferred” classifies transfer as a legitimate interest. The latter means that the decision to transfer depends not only on the convicted person himself, but also on other subjects of penal relations. Thus, the administration of a correctional institution considers the issue of transfer to a commission, makes a decision on whether to present the convict for transfer, and prepares the necessary documents. The final decision on transfer is made by the court. Thus, for example, the absence of penalties and the completion of a legally prescribed sentence does not mean that the convicted person will be transferred to an institution with more lenient conditions for serving the sentence. Such a transfer may be denied to him. As already noted, positively characterized convicts can be transferred to further serve their sentences in correctional institutions with more favorable conditions of detention. The law correlates the possibility of transfer to correctional institutions not only with the positive behavior of the convicted person, but also with the presence of a formal sign - serving a certain term of the assigned sentence. Serving the terms of the imposed sentence established by law is necessary, firstly, so that the convicted person has time to prove himself properly and, secondly, so that the administration of the correctional institution has the opportunity to carefully study the convicted person and on this basis make the right decision. Positively characterized convicts may be transferred from prison to a correctional colony after the convicts have served in prison at least half of the term assigned by the court. Based on a number of factors indicating an increased social danger to the person of the convicted person, the crime he has committed, and the attitude of the convicted person to a possible transfer, the law defines the circumstances in the presence of which transfer to a settlement colony is prohibited. These circumstances include: a) conviction in the case of a particularly dangerous recidivism of crimes; b) conviction to life imprisonment in case of replacement of this type of punishment by pardon with imprisonment for a certain term; c) sentence to death, which is subsequently commuted to imprisonment by way of pardon. Convicts who have not undergone compulsory treatment, as well as those requiring special treatment in closed medical institutions, and convicts who have not given written consent to be transferred to a colony cannot be transferred to a settlement colony. A convicted person for whom the type of correctional institution may be changed, as well as his lawyer (legal representative) have the right to apply to the court with a petition to change the type of correctional institution. The convicted person submits a petition to change the type of correctional institution through the administration of the institution or body executing the sentence in which he is serving his sentence in accordance with Art. 81 Penal Code of the Russian Federation. In turn, the administration of such an institution or body, no later than 10 days after filing a petition from a convicted person to change the type of correctional institution, sends the said petition to the court along with a character reference for the convicted person. The characterization must contain data on the behavior of the convicted person, his attitude to study and work during the entire period of serving the sentence, on the attitude of the convicted person to the committed act and that the convicted person partially or fully compensated for the damage caused or otherwise made amends for the harm caused as a result of the crime . The characteristics of a person who, based on the conclusion of a forensic psychiatric examination, is recognized as suffering from a disorder of sexual preference (pedophilia), which does not exclude sanity, and who is convicted of committing, at the age of over 18 years, a crime against the sexual integrity of a minor under fourteen years of age, must also contain data on compulsory medical measures applied to the convicted person, on his attitude towards treatment. Simultaneously with the petition of such a convicted person, the conclusion of his attending physician is sent to the court. The question of ensuring what is enshrined in Part 3 of Art. 50 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the right of everyone convicted of a crime to ask for a mitigation of punishment has been repeatedly considered by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. In the Resolution of November 26, 2002 in the case of verifying the constitutionality of the provisions of Art. 77.1, 77.2, part 1 and 10 art. 175 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and Art. 363 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation indicated that this right, being a direct expression of the constitutional principles of respect for the dignity of the individual, humanism, justice, legality in the field of criminal law relations, guarantees every convicted person the opportunity to seek a mitigation of his fate up to the complete removal of all those restrictions in rights and freedoms that are established for him on the basis of the law by a conviction. The legal position expressed in this Resolution has a general meaning and fully applies to legal relations arising in connection with the resolution of issues related to the use of such a form of mitigation of the fate of a convicted person, such as changing the type of correctional institution assigned to him by a court verdict. This predetermines the need to ensure that the convicted person has the right, in the presence of the grounds and conditions provided for by law (Part 3 of Article 58 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Parts 2 and 3 of Article 78 of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation) to apply directly to the court with a petition to change the type of correctional institution and to impose an obligation on the court consider such a petition on its merits in the manner prescribed by law.

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How to find out the information you need

As a rule, the convict gets to the colony-settlement under his own power after receiving a certain order. He is under the control of the criminal inspectorate until he arrives at the place of serving his sentence. Everything here is quite clear.

The address of the colony settlement will be indicated in the order issued to the convicted person. So it's almost impossible to get lost. Moreover, all colony settlements are located in special areas. villages, and public transport goes there. But sometimes it happens that the convicted person does not arrive there at the appointed time to serve his sentence. In this case, he may be put on the wanted list.

Moreover, the court, at the request of the executive inspection, has the right to change the latter’s type of correctional institution and transfer it to a general regime. So there is no need to violate the rules specified in the instructions.

The number of the colony settlement is also indicated in this document issued to the convicted person. He has the right to provide this information to his relatives so that they can come to him on a date or send a parcel.

To the above

According to the current legislation, there is no established regime in the colony-settlement. It is believed that it is easier than in other correctional institutions. Moreover, the administration monitors order in the colony-settlement.

Nevertheless, positively characterized convicts can even live with their families outside the institution. If, of course, the head of the colony allows this to be done. Some convicts even study by correspondence in educational institutions and travel to the city to work unaccompanied by employees of this correctional institution. In addition, the majority of persons serving their sentences in the settlement wear only civilian clothes. Therefore, in appearance they do not differ much from ordinary free citizens.

Conditions of detention

Convicts live in dormitories with several people per room. Living conditions can vary greatly depending on the colony , usually the rooms have: beds on a metal frame with a mattress, a personal bedside table for each resident, a wardrobe for outerwear, a desk, chairs, a cabinet or shelves for food, a mirror, lamps, etc. It is possible to have a TV and a refrigerator. As a rule, settlers visit the bathhouse once a week.

On the territory of the colony there must be:

  • Medical hospital.
  • Shop.
  • Bathhouse.
  • School.
  • Library.
  • Assembly Hall.
  • Rooms for receiving guests and sometimes hotels for them.

What are they?

Two types of colony-settlements are envisaged:

  1. for persons who have committed a crime through negligence and have been sentenced to a term of no more than 5 years;
  2. for positively characterized prisoners transferred from general and maximum security colonies.

Colonies can be male or female, or joint. There are also colonies for minors.

Read about how and where minors usually serve their sentences in Russia here.

Schedule

The daily routine depends on the internal regulations adopted in a particular colony . As a rule, it looks like this:

  • Get up no later than 5-6 am. This is followed by physical exercise for 15 minutes. Another 10-15 minutes are given for the toilet and filling the beds.
  • Morning check - up to 40 minutes.
  • Breakfast - 30 minutes.
  • The route to work and distribution of instructions is up to 1 hour.
  • Working hours are 8 hours in accordance with the law, but labor rights are often violated and working hours can reach 10-14 hours a day.
  • Lunch break - 30 minutes.
  • Returning from work takes about half an hour.
  • Dinner - 30 minutes.
  • Educational activities - up to one hour.
  • Free time - about an hour.
  • Getting ready for bed - 15 minutes.
  • Sleep - 8 hours.

Studying in educational institutions takes place according to a special schedule.

Nutrition

Each colony has a canteen, but the food served there leaves much to be desired. As a rule, these are porridges and soups made from cereals and substances resembling “compound fat”, which are classified as products of animal origin.

In the store you can buy your own products , such as: canned meat and fish, pickles (cucumbers and tomatoes), mixed vegetables, dairy products, cereals, pasta and instant noodles.

Dormitories may have kitchens. Depending on the administration's policy, stoves, kettles, pots and pans may be permitted for self-cooking.

An important place in the diet consists of products received through transmission from relatives.

More information about the nutrition of prisoners in the MLS can be found here.

Job

Colonies can be located near populated areas or right in the city. But more often they are found in the dense forests of the north and east of Russia.

In colonies remote from civilization, the choice of work is small : logging and woodworking are hard and dangerous work in unfavorable climatic conditions. It also happens that in such colonies there are much fewer jobs than there are colonists themselves, and in this case, work is a privilege that allows you to have a modest income and after some time count on parole.

In and around cities, work often involves tailoring. Also, with the permission of the administration, you can get a job in a locality nearby. It is unlikely that a convicted person will agree to be hired for a highly paid job, but this could be, for example, work in a factory, in the housing and communal services sector, in the agricultural sector or in the service sector. Since the uniform in the colony-settlement is loose, those around you may not understand that they are working together with the convict or receiving some kind of service from him.

Prisoners' labor rights are often violated:

  1. convicts work 12 hours a day;
  2. receive tiny salaries, from which payments for food and other services may be illegally collected;
  3. convicts are forced to “sign 106th” - that is, agree to free work to improve the territory of the colony.

Convicts are afraid to defend their rights, because otherwise they will face penalties, including a punishment cell: it is enough to “receive two punishment cells” for the colony administration to have grounds for transferring the convict to a general regime colony or denying him parole. It is very difficult to defeat the colony administration in court , and weighing all the risks, the majority of convicts prefer to put up with the violation of their rights.

It happens that after arriving in the colony they offer an appointment to a good position for a certain amount of money. This practice of purchasing positions does exist in some colonies. However, you should not agree to this without knowing who you are dealing with: they may deceive you.

Studies

According to paragraph 4 of Article 129 of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation, a convicted person has the right to receive secondary vocational and higher education, the form of education is correspondence. You can only enroll in educational institutions located in the same municipality as the colony.

Education is a good basis for incentives and subsequent parole , and the education received will be useful after release.

Entertainment and relaxation

In accordance with labor legislation, convicts are guaranteed an 8-hour working day and two days off, but these standards are often not respected, and colony residents do not have much free time.

Settlers have different options for spending their leisure time:

  • On the territory of the colony there is a library and an assembly hall. There may also be a cinema and TV rooms.
  • Various games are popular, such as backgammon, as well as card games, despite their formal ban.
  • In case of good relations with the administration, it is possible to visit a nearby settlement.
  • On holidays, it is customary to organize feasts, eating products received from the transfers. Sometimes settlers manage to smuggle in alcohol or buy it from the wardens. Some settlers even make mash on the territory of the colony, constructing ingenious hiding places for this.

Religion

The colonies are periodically visited by priests, and some even have chapels built ; in regions with a Muslim population, mosques can be found in the colonies. But problems may arise with performing namaz: although, according to the law, the colony administration does not have the right to interfere with religious rituals, in practice, strict adherence to the generally accepted regime is more important for the administration.

Dates and visits

Visits are an important part of a prisoner's life to maintain morale.

Settlers have the right to have visits without limiting their number. Small hotels for visiting relatives may be located on the territory of the settlement.

There is no limit on the number of dates only in KP. You can find out how short-term visits are conducted in institutions with other regimes in this article, and here we talked about the conditions for obtaining and holding long-term meetings with prisoners.

Transfer of products and things

Residents of the colony have the right to receive parcels and money transfers in any quantity.

You will find more information about the rules for transfers to convicted persons in the MLS in a separate article.

Is it possible to wear long hair?

Women have the right to wear long hair , but many cut their hair short for convenience. It is not customary for men to wear long hair, although formal prohibitions or permissions depend on the internal regulations of the colony.

Using a mobile phone

Mobile phones are prohibited in all correctional institutions of the Russian Federation, which, however, does not prevent convicts from using them everywhere.

The severity of the ban depends on the policy of the administration , which in turn is caught between two fires: on the one hand, the storage and use of mobile phones is directly prohibited by law, on the other hand, if this ban is defended too harshly, convicts may begin to rebel, sabotage work and engage in sabotage.

As a rule, the administration builds a compromise policy in which periodic searches and seizures of mobile phones take place, but this does not happen very diligently and often, so settlers have the opportunity to use mobile phones, storing them in hiding places on the territory of the colony. Often the guards themselves are engaged in selling phones several times more than their retail price.

Is it possible to go home for the weekend?

The law states that convicts can leave the territory of the colony only “if it is necessary due to the nature of the work they perform or in connection with their studies,” that is, formally it is impossible to go home on the weekend . However, in many colonies it is possible to go home for the weekend if you have a good and trusting relationship with the leadership or for a certain amount of money.

At the same time, the law also states: “Convicts who do not commit violations of the established procedure for serving a sentence and who have families, by order of the head of the colony-settlement, may be allowed to live with their families in a rented or their own living space located within the boundaries of the colony-settlement or municipal entity , on whose territory the colony-settlement is located.”

Thus, if a convicted person’s house is located next to a colony, he has the opportunity to negotiate with the administration about living with his family.

Are hours allowed?

In a settlement colony it is allowed to wear a wristwatch, but in prisons and pre-trial detention centers - not.

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