The Number of Prisoners in Russia Has Nearly Halved, Including Because They Are Going Off to War

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The number of prisoners in Russia has nearly halved, including because they are going off to war

Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Arkady Gostev said at a meeting with journalists that the number of inmates in Russian pretrial detention centers and penal institutions fell from 465,000 at the end of 2021 to 282,000 by May 2026.

He named the humanization of criminal punishment as one of the reasons for the decline, but noted that "a certain influence is being exerted by the work of recruiting contract soldiers for the Armed Forces."

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Prison Numbers Fixed Through the Front

Prisoner numbers fell, partly because inmates are being recruited into the army.

The prison system outsourced the problem.