Kachanivska penal colony ( uk, Качанівська жіноча колонія №54, translated: "Kachanivska female colony number 54"), is a minimum security
prison
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, standard English, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correc ...
with general conditions located in the East-Ukrainian city of
Kharkiv
Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Тимошенко перевезли у колонію на Харківщині. Фото, відео. ОНОВЛЕНО
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...
(16 December 2011) Kachanivska holds women who are first time prisoners sentenced for crimes of negligence or crimes of low or moderate severity. The inmates live in
barracks
Barracks are usually a group of long buildings built to house military personnel or laborers. The English word originates from the 17th century via French and Italian from an old Spanish word "barraca" ("soldier's tent"), but today barracks are u ...
designed for 8 to 12 women.
Kachanivska prisoners have the right to meet with close relatives for three days once every three months; the colony has nine rooms for long visits for which visitors can make paid reservations.Tymoshenko's daughter meets with mother in Kharkiv colony ‘suit’ room
Kyiv Post
The ''Kyiv Post'' is the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, founded in October 1995 by Jed Sunden.
History
American Jed Sunden founded the ''Kyiv Post'' weekly newspaper on Oct. 18, 1995 and later created KP Media for his holdings. ...
(9 March 2012)
History
In 1927 the former estate of Russian landowner Kachanov was transformed into an affiliate of the Kharkiv "house of forced labor" (BUPR).Penitentiary Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv In the building were installed a shoe repair shop and a forge for the manufacture of agricultural tools. In 1941 when Kharkiv was occupied by
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
BUPR was evacuated to the east. After the liberation of the city, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukrainian SSR in October 1943 re-established the prison as an industrial labor colony. The first party of convicts was accepted in February 1944. In 1948 the colony was reorganized as a juvenile colony.
In 1957 it became a "female labor colony".
Notable inmates
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Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( uk, Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, ; Hrihyan ();Prime Minister of Ukraine. From 30 December 2011, Tymoshenko refused to follow the living rules of the penal colony and did not wear the inmate uniform. She was released on 22 February 2014, in the concluding days of the
Euromaidan revolution
The Revolution of Dignity ( uk, Революція гідності, translit=Revoliutsiia hidnosti) also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution,
.
Gallery
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