“To these abuses in the FSIN system.
These are really egregious cases, a large number of criminal cases have been initiated, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.
According to Medvedev, this system should change and become more modern.
“This, unfortunately, is also an economic issue, it is not only a matter of ideology, that prison is always a punishment,” the politician added.
Earlier, Alexander Yakovlev, a representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia, said that over the ten months of 2021, the agency had revealed more than 110,000 facts of violations of the law in Russian colonies and pre-trial detention centers, and 25 submissions were made to the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service.
In December, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that 17 criminal cases had been opened in Russia for torture in penitentiary institutions, and dozens of FSIN employees had been fired.
Also in December, a bill was submitted to the State Duma to toughen punishment for government officials for the use of torture.