In Minusinsk, one of the most stringent and old prisons of Russia will be upheld for three billion rubles

In Minusinsk, they plan to expand one of the seven Russian prisons, where criminals committing especially serious crimes are serving a sentence. Information about this appeared in the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of August 20.

The institution for more than a hundred years will be expanded at the expense of the new regime building by almost 600 seats. Construction work on the territory of the prison should begin in 2026 and end by 2030. The project cost is 2.9 billion rubles.

The work will become part of a large state program to update the penitentiary system, designed until 2035 and with a total budget of more than 359 billion rubles. As noted in the document, an urgent need for modernization has been rushed for a long time: out of more than 650 regime buildings throughout Russia, 127 have been in operation for more than 100 years, and another 92 from the middle of the last century.

Minusinskaya prison – an institution with a rich history, inferior in age only Cheboksary prison, Butyrka and Vladimir Central. The leaders of criminal communities, rapists, recidivists and malicious violators of order from other colonies are sent here.