Polar Owl
Federal Governmental Institution — penal colony No. 18 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, commonly known as the Polar Owl (russian: Полярная сова, ''Polyarnaya sova'') is a Russian prison located on the bank of the Sob (river), Sob River near the Polar Urals in the Kharp urban-type settlement. It is one of the seven Supermax prison, supermax Corrective labor colony, corrective labor colonies operated by the Federal Penitentiary Service for convicts sentenced to Life imprisonment in Russia, life imprisonment in Russia. History Kharp was founded in 1961 during the construction of the Salekhard–Igarka Railway. The core of the new settlement was a camp for prisoners who worked on laying the railway. Subsequently, the camp was transformed into a prison for particularly dangerous recidivists. The prison received the status of a colony for life convicts in 2004. In 2010–2012, there were reports in the media that some empl ...
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Federal Penitentiary Service
The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN, Russian language, Russian: Федеральная служба исполнения наказаний (ФСИН), ''Federalnaya Sluzhba Ispolneniya Nakazaniy'') is a Government_agency#Russian_Federation, federal agency of the Ministry of Justice (Russia), Ministry of Justice of Russia responsible for Prison, correctional services. The FSIN is the federal authority for the detention of Suspect, suspected and convicted persons, the security and maintenance of prisons in Russia, the Prisoner transport, transport of prisoners, and Rehabilitation (penology), rehabilitation programs. As of 2019, it operates 954 prisons and pre-trial detention facilities housing adult and juvenile offender, juvenile offenders of various security levels, with the majority of penal facilities being Corrective labor colony, corrective labor colonies. Its head office is located at Zhitnaya Street 14 in Yakimanka District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow. The ...
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