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Prison medicine: ways to humanize it

In the Kherson region, a prisoner falls under occupation and is taken to Russia, where he becomes seriously ill. The aggressor state releases him on health grounds, but at home, the native penitentiary system locks him up again, barely alive. Let’s find out what is wrong with the Ukrainian procedure for release from prison due to illness.

Mobilization of convicts: Pros and cons

On January 19, 2024, the Verkhovna Rada registered draft law No. 10419, which allows amnesty for specific categories of prisoners. On condition that they go to the frontline.

‘They just killed him’ — Vitaliy Matukhno, an inmate suffering from cancer, died in the prison hospital

According to human rights activist Andriy Didenko, “Vitaliy was killed consciously and intentionally because, for them, a human being is a trash.” Andriy tells the story of a life prisoner who should have been released for health reasons but was left behind bars to die.

Ukraine’s penitentiary institutions and the war

With the onset of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine some of the country’s most vulnerable institutions, its detention centres and corrective colonies, found themselves in a precarious position. This article examines the past and present situation of Ukraine’s penitentiary system and recommends legal and practical measures for its greater safety.

REPORT on the results of a study of court decisions on release from prisons due to illness

The study analyzed 1417 rulings of the first-instance courts under pt.2 of Art. 84 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which were delivered between January 1, 2017 and June 30, 2022 throughout Ukraine and made openly available in the Unified State Register of Court Decisions.

The application practice of Article 391 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine proves that this Article should be canceled

Article 391 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, both by its essence and by the practice of its application, does not correspond to the basic democratic principles and the principles of criminal law and is used in most cases as a tool of pressure and reprisals against disobedient prisoners.

If you committed tortures and remained free, it is our work and not your achievement

In almost 2 years after the high-profile case of beating the convicts in the Oleksiivka colony the investigators and prosecutors still have not identified the perpetrators, and, it seems, made everything they could to simply close the proceedings due to the expiration of the maximum term of pre-trial investigation.

If you committed tortures and remained free, it is our work and not your achievement

In almost 2 years after the high-profile case of beating the convicts in the Oleksiivka colony the investigators and prosecutors still have not identified the perpetrators, and, it seems, made everything they could to simply close the proceedings due to the expiration of the maximum term of pre-trial investigation.

If you committed tortures and remained free, it is our work and not your achievement

In almost 2 years after the high-profile case of beating the convicts in the Oleksiivka colony the investigators and prosecutors still have not identified the perpetrators, and, it seems, made everything they could to simply close the proceedings due to the expiration of the maximum term of pre-trial investigation.