The FSIN supported human rights activists: Valery Borschev about the offset of the day in a pre -trial detention center for one and a half in the colony

The State Duma adopted in the third reading (it was submitted to the State Duma 10 years ago, adopted in the first reading in 2015) a bill counting in a pre -trial detention center, for one and a half in the colony. All the factions unanimously voted for him, so, probably, he will soon pass the Council of Council and will be signed by Putin. It is predicted that when recalculating the deadlines for freedom, about 100 thousand prisoners will be released.

On the other hand, the future law equates two days under house arrest by the day in the pre -trial detention center and, accordingly, one and a half days in the colony. (Now the day under house arrest is equal to the day in the pre -trial detention center). The bill does not apply to a number of articles, including drugs and terrorism - accusations on them often appearing political criminal cases. The text of the bill and the chronology of its adoption can be familiarized with the State Duma.

The bill of ATS-Info spoke with Valery Borschev, a dissident, the former State Duma deputy and the creator of the system of public supervisory commissions for monitoring the places of imprisonment.

How do you feel about the bill equating the day in jail by one and a half days in the colony?

- This is a long -standing idea of ​​human rights activists. We have achieved this for almost 20 years. It was possible to achieve this because the jailers stood on our side: a huge pouring into a pre-trial detention center (overflow- OVD-info ). I once performed in the Public Chamber and offered this option: if the pre-trial detention center already contains as many people as it is supposed according to the standards, not to take new ones there, but to put it in line. So, for example, they do in Denmark and Sweden. Then everyone laughed at me.

When did you offer it?

-In my opinion, in 2009.

How can this work?

- And so. The court condemns, there is no place in prison. Then the prisoner is transferred under house arrest, he sits at home and waits for a place in prison. My position - the prison should be independent of the investigation and other structures. The prison should follow its rules. For example, do not take prisoners in excess of the limit. Such is the Western experience. When a huge pouring into a pre -trial detention center went in Moscow, the jailers also began to talk about what should be put in line.

Independence of the prison is also that lawyers and investigators have equal access to the pre -trial detention center. Not like ours. The investigator is always please, and lawyers in Butyrku, Sailor Silence are in line in the morning to go to the client.

Human rights activists - they are styers, work for long distances. They offer something, first reject it, but in the end they agree with us.

For the first time about this (that it is necessary to read out the days in the pre-trial detention center and the colony- OTD-info ) I spoke in 1999, when I was in the Duma. Then they did not agree with this, but Krasheninnikov (Pavel Krasheninnikov, in 1999 he was the Minister of Justice, since 2000-the State Duma deputy, the permanent chairman of the legislation committees- ATS-Info ) reacted to this idea with attention.

I had a conversation with Krasheninnikov, I said that the conditions in the pre -trial detention center are seriously different from the colonies, in general a person is not yet guilty, but already sitting, and investigators in a pre -trial detention center do not go for six months, or even more. I said that such a law could stimulate the investigation to work. So that the investigators do not hang around somewhere, leaving a person (in the pre-trial detention center- OTD-info ) to acquire new diseases. Here is Nikita Belykh, I knew him well before landing. An absolutely healthy man - he became a disabled person in a pre -trial detention center, and there are many such examples.

Our Social Partnership Foundation deals with the problem of the spread of tuberculosis. I am in tuberculosis departments behind bars: I see that people receive open tuberculosis in prison. In general, this is nonsense in the light of anti -Bubercure policy spent in the country.

This bill plays an important role in achieving the independence of the prison from the investigation. What is a day and a half a colony for a day in a pre -trial detention center? Firstly, this is money. Yes, justification sentences are now 0.2%, but they are. Now, if a person in court was justified, he will be laid a half times more compensation than before.

Secondly, investigators will not receive their buzz: to keep the accused of pre-trial detention center as much as you want. The investigation becomes not so omnipotent. And the courts in the pre -trial detention center are now not so famously sent. I met people who were waiting for ships for six years in a pre -trial detention center. And now these can be found. It turns out that such a person served like nine years of colony. That is, it is more likely that he will be given a deadline that will be credited for the seven in the pre -trial detention center.

So, it seems to me that this bill is the victory of human rights activists. The considerable merit of Karsheninnikov that he advanced this bill. On my behalf, I want to thank Krasheninnikov.

Yes, it took us almost 20 years. But the Investigative Committee resisted with might and main! Bastrykin did not adopt this law on the spirit, they slowed it. But this year all over the country in jail, a huge one will turn over, and as a result, the Duma adopted the bill.

It looks like just arithmetic - a year or one and a half - but will affect both the courts and the investigation.

What was Bastrykin’s resistance, and what is the support of the jailers? FSIN sent some appeals to the State Duma?

- No. The FSIN entered the working group under this bill. There were representatives of the investigation, prosecutor's office and the FSIN. I was not at the last meetings of the working group, but I know about this from the jailers.

The bill lay in the State Duma for 10 years. How often did this group meet?

- The composition of the participants constantly changed there. They collect such groups when a new reading of the bill is planned. At the last meetings, the FSIN position has become positive. My friends in the Prosecutor General’s Office, who are engaged in the penitentiary system, support this idea - in any case, in conversations with me. I must say that at one time Yuri Chaika supported the law on public control (regulating the work of public supervisory commissions- OTD-info )-when I pierced this law. The seagull supported both the Minister of Justice, and being the Prosecutor General.

According to my information, before the second reading of the bill of the Investigative Committee, the FSIN - for, the Prosecutor General’s Office was more likely against. I believe that the issuance of a positive conclusion of the legal department of the presidential administration for this bill was delayed under the pressure of the TFR. And now she has appeared because the FSIN no longer withstand the overflow of the pre -trial detention center. I often go to the pre-trial detention center, I see how people sleep on the floor, because there are not enough beds-this is a damn thing.