Latest Prison Statistics
On January 1, 2003, institutions of GUIN (Chief Department of Penalty
Execution) of the RF Ministry of Justice held 877,000 prisoners,
of which 145,000 persons were imprisoned at SIZOs (pre-trial
detention facilities).
The rated number of prisoners (“RNP”) stood at 600 per 100,000 of
population.
By preliminary estimates, at the beginning of 2003 institutions of all types
(including IVSs, etc.) the RNP was within the range of 640-650. In the
USA, this multiple is estimated at 710.
Groups of Prison Population in GUIN.
On January 1, 2003, these were:
- women: 50 thousand persons, including 9.4
thousand in SIZOs;
- children under 3 years of age, kept in Child’s Homes at
female colonies: 528 persons;
- underage prisoners: 19 thousand persons, including 8
thousand in SIZOs;
- prisoners suffering from tuberculosis: 86.1 thousand
persons, including 10.8 thousand in SIZOs;
- HIV-infected prisoners and prisoners suffering from AIDS: 37.2
thousand persons, including 6.7 thousand in SIZOs.
Registered with GUIN’s Criminal Execution Inspectorates
were 641 thousand persons sentenced to penalties that do not involve
imprisonment. Of this number, 32 thousand persons are underage.
