FSIN: every fourth pre-trial detention center in Russia is overcrowded; the accused have to be transferred to other regions
In Russia, 50 out of 203 pre-trial detention centers are overcrowded, said Igor Vedinyapin, head of the department of execution of sentences and special accounting of the Federal Penitentiary Service, at a round table in the Federation Council. His words are reported by the Parliamentary Gazette. The most difficult situation is observed in institutions in Crimea, Moscow, Voronezh, Amur and Moscow regions, Karelia, Tatarstan, as well as in the Krasnodar and Stavropol territories.