Prisoners in the Russian colonies were allowed to use the radio collectively only in a place designated by the administration, individual listening was prohibited. This is stated in the decision of the Judicial Panel of the Supreme Court of Russia for Administrative Cases. DEA News.
This decision was made by the court after considering the complaint of a prisoner from one of the colonies in the Volgograd region that the inspector seized a radio receiver and an unidentified towel from a package sent to him.
The Supreme Court, referring to the norms of the Criminal Code, follows that, subject to the regime and the provision of similar rights to other convicts, prisoners have the right to listen to the radio during their free hours, but this is impossible. having a stand-alone radio receiver.
The court said, “Thus, the radios received by the convict in a parcel can be placed at the places of public use to be determined by the prison administration, upon the request of the convict.”
They explained that by the time the application was submitted and satisfied, the radio receivers were confiscated by order of the head of the correctional institution and transferred to a warehouse for storage.
Previously RT Referring to RBC, he reported that the Russian Ministry of Justice has proposed to change the conditions of detention of people in a pre-trial detention center.
Source: Gazeta
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