The budget will receive 33.4 billion rubles in 2018 from prison labor

In 2018, income from attracting convicts to paid work should amount to about 33.4 billion rubles (24 billion from the sale of finished products, 9.4 billion from the provision of services and work). This forecast is contained in the explanatory note to the draft federal budget for 2018-2020, writes RNS.

As expected, in 2019, income from the sale of finished products will amount to the same 24 billion, and in 2020 it will increase to 27 billion rubles. Income from the provision of various services and work by prisoners should also increase - to 9.6 billion in 2019 and 9.8 billion in 2020.

In 2016, FSIN institutions entered into contracts for the supply of various products worth 50 billion rubles, said Oleg Korshunov, deputy general director of the department. He noted that correctional institutions produce a total of more than 100 thousand types of goods.

30.78 billion rubles - this amount, according to the Accounts Chamber, will be required to complete the construction of 18 detention centers and prisons, wrote Kommersant . 57.67 billion has already been spent on the implementation of the federal target program “Development of the penal system,” but construction has not yet been completed. The Accounts Chamber announced that in 2007-2016 the Federal Penitentiary Service ineffectively spent 15.05 billion rubles.

from his post was removed In August of this year , the deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Korshunov, who oversaw capital construction in the department, ; On September 14, he was arrested by the Basmanny Court of Moscow. According to investigators, the official concluded two government contracts at inflated prices, the total amount of damage was estimated at 160 million rubles. Korshunov has been charged with two counts of embezzlement on an especially large scale using his official position (Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code).