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5.8 billion rubles were requested for the digitalization of the criminal correctional system
Rostec and the Federal Penitentiary Service have requested 5.8 billion rubles from the state for the digitalization of the penitentiary system. The state corporation wants to create a state information system for the service, which will strengthen the protection of prisoners, use their labor more efficiently, reduce corruption and "minimize manipulation by NGOs of information about the conditions of detention of convicts." According to human rights activists, this is primarily about preventing leaks of information about torture, Kommersant writes .
On the letter of Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov and Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Alexander Kalashnikov to President Vladimir Putin, there is a visa instructing Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to consider proposals. It is assumed that digitalization will make it possible to exclude illegal actions of FSIN employees in relation to prisoners, prevent the illegal communication of the special contingent with the external environment, increase the level of security, fight corruption in prisons, track special vehicles and prisoners, coordinate the production and economic activities of correctional institutions, and also “minimize manipulation NGOs with information about the conditions of detention of convicts and persons in custody,” the letter says.
A number of human rights activists and experts believe that one of the goals of the centralized digitalization of the Federal Penitentiary Service is to prevent leakage of information about torture in colonies.
“The Federal Penitentiary Service is trying to prevent scandals similar to the one in Yaroslavl. And he solves this in two directions at once: on the one hand, he promises greater openness due to digitalization, on the other hand, he assures that the problems are not related to the behavior of the employees themselves who beat the prisoners, but to NGOs that make such facts public, ” - explains the editor-in-chief of "Mediazona" Sergey Smirnov.