“The situation in IK-15 is under control,” the press service of the department said.

It is noted that at the moment in the colony are employees of the FSIN, the prosecutor's office and the investigative committee.

According to the Federal Penitentiary Service, "the negatively characterized convicts tried to destabilize the work of the institution by setting fire to several facilities in the industrial zone of the colony."

Damage assessment.

Earlier it became known that in the correctional colony No. 15 in the city of Angarsk, Irkutsk region, a fire occurred as a result of the riot of prisoners.